• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Perfect fit. Humans are mostly also dumb as shit. Honestly I’m quite certain AI is already way ahead of some half the population intelligence wise. That’s just cause the bar is so fucking low.

  • kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I had a professor describe it as such: “Computers aren’t smart. They’re just extremely fast at finding all the wrong answers first.”

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Was going to say “wants needs to be told what to do exactly” and does exactly that is one of the reasons so many autistic people like myself are into computers.

    And then i learned about Amelia Bedelia and i will literally eat my shirt if that isn’t autism coded.

    I dislike how the post calls those traits as dumb
    , i personaly loath the times i gave exact instructions only for a non autistic to ignore half and gladly show me something that is useless to me. But i do still agree wirh the underlying message.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I look forward to the semi-daily posts by one of the regulars at [email protected]

    EDIT : I was going to post a link to internet archive, but those are all part of some official library collections, so we’re shit out of luck lads

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      As someone who got irrationally angry at Amelia Bedelia as a kid, I really wish this was a real book. An adult version where she gets properly called out on her bullshit would be absolutely cathartic to read.

      • Deacon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        Damn you too? I was like 8 years old thinking to myself, here we have an asshole, who is clearly inept, and yet her reputation never suffers.

        • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 hours ago

          I know, right? The whole reason why she was such a big fuckup to begin with was because she was surrounded by enablers! Even my prepubescent self knew there were no good people in those books.

  • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Computers often do what you said, not what you meant.

    Honestly more experience with that might help some people who are habitually unclear in their thinking and communication

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      Computers often literally always do what you said, not what you meant.

      FTFY

      • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Even excluding cosmic rays and other random bit flips, it’s still not just “you” unless you designed the whole thing starting with sand and copper (and high quality only, none of this Ea-Nasir stuff) and wrote all the software starting from machine code.

        Really what a computer does is the composition of what’s it’s told to do by you, the devs of the app you’re using, the devs of the compiler that compiled the app, the devs of OS that compiler ran on…, the devs of the OS the app is running on, the devs of the compiler of that OS, the devs of the OS that OS compiler ran on…, …The UEFI devs (and their compilers, etc.), the motherboard manufacturer and their design software…, the RAM manufacturer…, the CPU designer…, GPU…, etc.

      • DeadDigger@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        That’s not true there is stuff like race conditions, galactic which energy beams, broken cpus, computational bit flips, ram bit flips and stuff like row hammer, just as an example list, where the computer is very likely to not do what you said and not do what you meant

        Edit: depending what you do even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon could be a problem

      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        Except when I use them. Then there are error messages for the error messages that no one has seen before because I tried to print something.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Bedelia

    Premise

    The stories follow Amelia Bedelia, a maid who repeatedly misunderstands various commands of her employer by taking figures of speech and various terminology literally, with comical results. For example, she interprets a request to “put the lights out” as a request to physically put the light bulbs outside. Other examples include “tag a player out” when playing baseball resulting in her placing an actual tag on the player and then picking up the person to ask how far out they should be.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        Okay yes. This was what I thought it was. My second grade teacher read this to us once, and the thing about drawing the drapes has stuck with me for most of my life. She’s a complete fuckup who ruins everything, but she’s good at baking pies so that makes it okay.

          • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            5 hours ago

            It’s simultaneously an exact science but also vibes like “it’s warm and humid today so I need to adjust for that by feel”

      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        “General” is descriptive, not like a military title, and therefore isn’t pluralized. “Bedelia” isn’t indicative of the status of the Amelia, it’s just her surname. Pluralizing Amelia instead of Bedelia implies there’s another kind of Amelia she could be, which sadly isn’t the case. She’s doomed to be that dumb forever.