I don’t have a personal Microsoft account, and have no desire to create one more account, but am required by my organisation to use 1 Windows-only software for 2 hours every week. As such, I run that in a Windows VM on my computer, and this doesn’t seem like it’d be worth the effort of making a MS account

I think more and more browsers are spoofing their UA to pretend that you’re using windows, for fingerprinting resistance

“AI” today mostly refers to LLMs, and whichever LLM you’re using, you’ll likely face the same issues (wrong answers creeping in, tending towards mediocrity in its answers, etc.) - those seem to be things you have to live with if you want to use LLMs. if you know you can’t deal with it, another rebrand won’t help anything

wow is me, i am le surprised

mlafrance.fr

c’est une blague. ils ont pas osé payer pour un nom de domaine si merdique quand même !??

me semble que c’était LQDN aussi qui avait écrit sur les facteurs considérés “suspects” par la caf ou l’assmal - c’était principalement des faibles revenus et le handicap.

et ça me paraît vraiment bidon comme facteurs - je pense que, si y’a des gens qui devraient être considérés suspect, c’est ceux qui reçoivent des aides sans être handi/ALD/faible revenu/précarité/… genre, c’est normal que des gens handicapés aient beaucoup d’aides, c’est moins normal que des gens aisés et sans handicap en aient, et je peux mieux comprendre que ces catégories là soient enquêtés de plus près

well, i just tried it, and its answer is meh –

i asked it to transcribe “zenquistificationed” (made up word) in IPA, it gave me /ˌzɛŋˌkwɪstɪfɪˈkeɪʃənd/, which i agree with, that’s likely how a native english speaker would read that word.

i then asked it to transcribe that into japaense katakana, it gave me “ゼンクィスティフィカションエッド” (zenkwisuthifikashon’eddo), which is not a great transcription at all - based on its earlier IPA transcription, カション (kashon’) should be ケーシュン (kēshun’), and the エッド (eddo) part at the end should just, not be there imo, or be shortened to just ド (do)

it is absolutely capable to come up with it’s own logical stuff

interesting, in my experience, it’s only been good at repeating things, and failing on unexpected inputs - it’s able to answer pretty accurately if a small number is even or odd, but not if it’s a large number, which indicates it’s not reasoning but parroting answers to me

do you have example prompts where it showed clear logical reasoning?

huh, i kinda assumed it was a term made up/taken by journalists mostly, are there actual research papers on this using that term?

because it’s a text generation machine…? i mean, i wouldn’t say i can prove it, but i don’t think anyone can prove it’s capable of thinking, much less of reasoning

like, it can string together a coherent sentence thanks to well crafted equations, sure, but i wouldn’t qualify that as “thinking”, though i guess the definition of “thinking” is debatable

for it to “hallucinate” things, it would have to believe in what it’s saying. ai is unable to think - so it cannot hallucinate

je propose qu’on postule au ministère de la propagande, on a les qualités pour

on va avoir des pressions de l’éducation nationale pour trouver un stage pour ceux qui en ont pas, suivi d’un reportage france 3 qui va nous montrer comme c’était simple pour 3 familles de trouver un stage, avec un petit segment au milieu d’un enseignant qui dit que “si quand même c’est compliqué pour beaucoup d’élèves”, pour finir sur un plan d’élèves en stage et des stats +/- bidons et pas représentatives sur le système

lmao. as if the ai was gonna have a better carbon footprint than the small plastic thing you replace every 5-10 years

where do you live where stuff’s so expensive? genuine question, because honestly, i’ve never seen such pricing here

most of the stuff i get from amazon (which is, to be fair, not much and mostly non-food/perishables) has free shipping (without prime) to amazon lockers or to your house if you have a >25€ (or maybe >40€ now…?) order

also, may be biased because i live in france, but like, a loaf of bread is at most 3€ here, even in the most remote villages, you’ll likely not have for more than 1.30€ for a baguette

sony isn’t a person

and when they’re caught, they’ll dispute the claims with regulators, like every company does all the time.

i remember digging a bit into the french data protection office v. discord a while back, when they got hit with sanctions for not respecting gdpr, and they disputed every single claim, sometimes arguing in real bad faith, like them claiming they handle very little private user data, so they don’t need to do data protection analysies like the law says.

considering google’s sheer empire on data, i imagine they play the same tricks, but like 1000× worse

i swear i argued with someone that said killing lightning would create so much ewaste, and that still sounds like a stupid arguement to me…

you could, but they definitely pushed you to use a single account everywhere, even logging you in automatically to your google account in chrome if you use it on google search or vice-versa

you can definitely back up apps and most files using adb and a computer, and probably even your phone itself by doing adb over the network back to your phone

also, i think there’s a way of setting up a different location provider in the developper setings on android!