They just want to make an economy they don’t have to pay anyone to profit from. That’s why slavery became Jim Crow became migrant labor and with modernity came work visa servitude to exploit high skilled laborers.
The owners will make sure they always have concierge service with human beings as part of upgraded service, like they do now with concierge medicine. They don’t personally suffer approvals for care. They profit from denying their livestock’s care.
Meanwhile we, their capital battery livestock property, will be yelling at robots about refilling our prescription as they hallucinate and start singing happy birthday to us.
We could fight back, but that would require fighting the right war against the right people and not letting them distract us with subordinate culture battles against one another. Those are booby traps laid between us and them by them.
Only one man, a traitor to his own class no less, has dealt them so much as a glancing blow, while we battle one another about one of the dozens of social wedges the owners stoke through their for profit megaphones. “Women hate men! Christians hate atheists! Poor hate more poor! Terfs hate trans! Color hate color! 2nd Gen immigrants hate 1st Gen immigrants!” On and on and on and on as we ALL suffer less housing, less food, less basic needs being met. Stop it. Common enemy. Meaningful Shareholders.
And if you think your little 401k makes you a meaningful shareholder, please just go sit down and have a juice box, the situation is beyond you and you either can’t or refuse to understand it.
And if you think your little 401k makes you a meaningful shareholder
“In this company we’re all like family, you don’t have to worry about anything.”
Does it rat out CEO hunters though?
That’s probably it’s primary function. That and maximizing profits through charging flex pricing based on who’s the biggest sucker.
“I’ll take 990 quarter pounders to fuck up the market price”
For real though, the mcrib is back so that means pork products had fallen enough that McDonald’s could just buy the mess for as long as it’s possible for the mcrib to stay profitable.
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times. LLMs are not AI. It is a natural language tool that would allow an AI to communicate with us using natural language…
What it is being used for now is just completely inappropriate. At best this makes a neat (if sometimes inaccurate) home assistant.
To be clear: LLMs are incredibly cool, powerful and useful. But they are not intelligent, which is a pretty fundamental requirement of artificial intelligence.
I think we are pretty close to AI (in a very simple sense), but marketing has just seen the fun part (natural communication with a computer) and gone “oh yeah, that’s good enough. People will buy that because it looks cool”. Nevermind that it’s not even close to what the term “AI” implies to the average person and it’s not even technically AI either so…I don’t remember where I was going with this, but capitalism has once again fucked a massive technical breakthrough by marketing it as something that it’s not.
Probably preaching to the choir here though…
We also have hoverboards. Well, “hoverboards”, because that’s the branding. They have wheels, and don’t hover.
Well it seems like a pretty natural fallacy to think that if something talks to us, in a language that we understand, that it must be intelligent. But it also doesn’t help that LLMs, aka. fancy text generators built with machine learning algorithms, are marketed as artificial intelligence.
You know, OpenAI published a paper in 2020 modelling how far they were from human language error rate and it correctly predicted the accuracy of GPT 4. Deepmind also published a study in 2023 with the same metrics and discovered that even with infinite training and power it would still never break 1.69% error rate.
These companies knew that their basic model was failing and that overfitying trashed their models.
Sam Altman and all these other fuckers knew, they’ve always known, that their LLMs would never function perfectly. They’re convincing all the idiots on earth that they’re selling an AGI prototype while they already know that it’s a dead-end.
What blows my mind about all this AI shit is that these bots are “programmed” by just telling them what to do. “You are an employee working at McDonald’s” and they take it from there.
Insanity.
Yeah, all the control systems are in-band, making them impossible to control. Users can just modify them as part of the normal conversation. It’s like they didn’t learn anything from phone phreaking.
The automated response when you pull up to multiple placed gives me the heebie jeebies. It’s nonsense no one asked for.
Cheery woman’s voice- “Hi will you be using your mobile app to check in today”
Me- “no thank you”
Voice of chain smoking grizzled dude who is tired of this- “Go ahead and order”
To be fair, humans also regularly mess up this task. I’d be curious to see comparisons of error rates.
McDonald’s did not factor in the same thing you are apparently not factoring in- when humans at McDonald’s fuck up your order, you can tell them about it.
Yeah, no way to tell anything to an LLM.
An LLM isn’t going to give a shit what you tell it. I don’t think you understand the desire people have to make a human connection when they see there’s been a mistake made and they’re on the losing end.
Maybe if they hired enough people.
People don’t get my order right either, for what it’s worth. But at least they have the excuse of being over-worked/under-paid, under pressure of being fast to hit metrics, and are usually a teenager or low skill worker.
And usually they take the order right, it just gets messed up on the line. So the AI is worse
For those interested, here’s the link to that news story from last June: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722gne7qngo
It doesn’t have to be good, just good enough to replace paying a human being a living wage.
Or in this case, replacing humans being paid starvation wages
McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs
after order errorsbecause they aren’t generating increased profitsSchools, doctor’s offices, and customer support services will continue to use them because reducing quality of service appears to have no impact on the influx in private profit-margin on revenue.
As if AI was a single tool and not an umbrella term.
Hey… the ones we use on drones to target terrorists work perfectly.
WTF they MUST KNOW which ones have shitty microphones F*** they have never asked, “Was it painful to shout your order at someone who is either trying or not” and the screen that shows you what the human they paid as little as allowed by law has transcribed, is broken half the time
Btw, why is there no speech recognition yet, using LLM to recognize words and meaning better?
And can’t google it really; flooded with results for Alexa and Siri and co., which is the reverse.
I work adjacent to a group that does speech recognition. There’s a massive amount of variation in regional dialects and that’s before you get to non-native speakers. The you have people like my mother in law who doesn’t have an accent, but her diction and grammar are… unique.
If someone is speaking in sentences you can use context clues to infer intent, but it’s a lot more challenging when you’re just getting spoken commands.
I suspect it’s a training/sample gap, but it’s likely going to be really hard to get to 100%.
