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  • Jrockwar@feddit.uktoAI@lemmy.mlHow reliable are modern LLMs?
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    22 days ago

    The least unreliable LLM I've found by far is perplexity, in the Pro mode. (By the way, if you want to try it out. You get a few free uses a day).

    The reason is because the Pro mode doesn't retrieve and spit out information from its internal memory bank, but instead, it uses that information to launch multiple search queries, then summarises the pages it finds, and then gives you that information.

    Other LLMs try to answer "from memory" and then add some links at the bottom for fact checking but usually Perplexity's answers come straight from the web so they're usually quite good.

    However, I still check (depending on how critical the task is) that the tidbit of information has one or two links next to it, that the links talk about the right thing, and I verify the data myself if it's actually critical that it gets it right. I use it as a beefier search engine, and it works great because it limits the possible hallucinations to the summarisation of pages. But it doesn't eliminate the possibility completely so you still need to do some checking.



  • Jrockwar@feddit.uktoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlBest type of sandwich?
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    1 month ago

    My partner and I got invited to a wedding with a funky, everything-goes sort of dress code. For £50 we bought enough clothes for two blade-runner-esque outfits (we added some bits of our own so the ensemble wouldn't look too cheap) and a big goose plushie (bigger than an individual pillow). The goose was £14 and not cheaply made at all! That one was genuinely a nice suprise.



  • Scooters come with brake lights, indicators... And as far as I know, in most countries the scooters and bicycles are in a similar or same category so the same helmet laws apply to both of them.

    The problem is enforcement and education - bikes are usually owned, not rented, and people have been told for years why it's important to wear a helmet. A bicycle is a large thing that you leave locked, and you can lock the helmet together with the bike. With scooters you'd have to take the helmet with you so it's perceived as inconvenient, and we don't have years of messaging saying "wear a helmet with your scooter".

    But to me enforcement is a big part of this. I live in a cycling city (mind you, a cycling city in the UK is still significantly more car-centric than central/northern Europe), and I have never heard of anyone getting fined for not wearing a helmet (neither on a scooter or bicycle). I routinely see people wearing dark clothes and no lights in their bike. If that's in the regulations, then clearly the police have better things to do. If nobody gets a fine, and there's no education drilling into people's heads that the helmet is important, then people won't bother.


  • Oh that's rich. So what they're saying is somehow every other smartwatch company can engineer not only a way to solve the technical limitations, but a full smartwatch in under three years, while one of the most powerful tech companies somehow thought "naah, connecting to android is a lot more difficult than a self driving car or a VR headset with an integrated computer and video passthrough, we better shelve that idea".

    Yeah ok Apple.


  • This is one of the rare things where the Spanish left and right agree, for different reasons.

    Simplifying a lot:

    • The left generally supports culture, actors, theatre, writers, Spanish made movies. They see piracy as a threat to the earnings of those people.
    • The right has historically cut any sorts of subsidies to the "culture creators", but they see piracy as a threat to the publishing, TV (...) industries.

    They both support SGAE, which translates cleanly to the General Society of Authors and Editors, who protects their interests by charging fees to everyone who dares look at copyrighted work.

    • You own a bar and you play TV, Radio, or Spotify? You have to pay SGAE.
    • You buy a computer, part of the money goes to SGAE.
    • You buy a blank CD, DVD, Hard Drive, you pay SGAE (because they know you will put copyrighted material there, and if you don't, well, fuck you)

    It's a fucked up system and I don't know if things have changed in the past few years as I don't live in Spain anymore. But it honestly feels like a prosecution of the population who is so evil and trying to destroy Spanish Culture.