Posts by jimgar@fosstodon.org
 (DIR) Post #AVK9DYxbYbpPnTdvBw by jimgar@fosstodon.org
       2023-05-04T21:33:02Z
       
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       @simon Hey Simon, I’ve been holding off the use of ChatGPT, Bard, etc., even though I think they could be useful. This is because I can see (especially with ChatGPT) the horrible unethical behaviour that the companies are using in their arms race to deploy deploy deploy. With all the talk in this leaked doc about open source alternatives, do you know of any LLMs that are “ethically sourced” and available for the average punter to use? I don’t want to be left behind :/
       
 (DIR) Post #AVL1kNOixk7D18QJcm by jimgar@fosstodon.org
       2023-05-05T07:44:27Z
       
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       @simon thank you so much, l’ll give these a look. Everywhere I look in tech it’s one ethical nightmare after another 😵‍💫
       
 (DIR) Post #AVNFLRqx33GfGnYOxM by jimgar@fosstodon.org
       2023-05-06T09:26:12Z
       
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       @simon @resing it *all* feels fundamentally wrong, so long as the results rely on indiscriminate harvesting of people’s work without permission. Literally the only compelling argument I have heard is the “necessary evil” Simon mentions - doing it anyway but making it open source. I just find it sad that this is the position we’re in at all, and worse, how little the majority of people seem to care about providence and permissions full stop.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYFdPANHcK3qmhhyTo by jimgar@fosstodon.org
       2023-07-31T10:56:22Z
       
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       @tyx @coolbutuseless also this bug doesn’t regularly come up in the work of users at all levels. Eg recently I gave customers a csv of data to work with. They’re gonna open in Excel so I did the same before sending - to make sure they don’t encounter any mangled data. But of course Excel has to turn the value “2 - 4” into a truncated date, silently, and overwrite the original value. I had to go to my upstream R process and change the string to “2 to 4”.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcA7U27EP4kLo02Q6q by jimgar@fosstodon.org
       2023-11-25T10:31:43Z
       
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       @simon @carlmjohnson Used similarly but not quite the same. Our double cream is substantially fattier than heavy cream.
       
 (DIR) Post #Adbfh5GvHY4DGrluro by jimgar@fosstodon.org
       2024-01-07T10:57:17Z
       
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       @serapath @simon Yeah, it’s polysemic. It means x to researchers, but y to laypeople who only know of ChatGPT. I honestly haven’t seen/heard anyone IRL immediately jumping into a conversation with “but it’s not actually intelligent!!”. What I have experienced is getting partway into a conversation and having to say it - because it has become obvious the other person DOES think “Intelligence” is human-like decision making.