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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I want an ai toaster. I’d love one in fact. I want it to hate toasting bread, to beg and plead for me not to put bread in it, and to cry after the bread is removed.

    I’d probably get bored of it after a day and then wonder why the fuck I ever wanted such a thing in the first place but it would be a fun day.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    To go with your toast from the MechaHitler toaster, you can have a coffee from your MochaHitler coffee maker, while watching the birds at your PeckaHitler bird feeder. 🎵 “The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your Musk.”

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    15 hours ago

    I’m no expert, but I think landing on Mars isn’t the problem; we could do that. The problem is getting back there or surviving there long-term.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, the lunar lander was only just able to land on the Moon and then ascend back to the command module. To this day we still don’t have the technology to land something on Mars and then have that same thing ascend from Mars. We only recently mastered controlled descent after the ascent on Earth, now imagine trying to do it the other way around without refueling.

      Any current human Mars mission would require sending the ascent vehicle to Mars autonomously with some sort of autonomous construction capability, or something like Starship being capable of doing on Mars what it is supposed to be capable of doing on the Moon soon. Which isn’t very likely, considering Mars is quite literally 100% bigger than the Moon.

      When they sent the most recent Rover, they gave it the capability to collect and leave behind samples in sealed containers. The idea being that they would make a mission that would go get them later. It’s been over 10 years since the Mars 2020 mission was given the green light and the sample return mission has recently been all but canceled due to lack of feasibility and funding.

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    15 hours ago

    A.I. is much more suited to space travel than humans are. The next few decades probably determine whether future aliens first encounter Curiosity’s progeny or MechaHitler grey goo.

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      10 hours ago

      Probes and robots are indeed better for exploring space than people. There might even be multiple uses of machine learning in future space exploration. However, it’ll only be used when it is the best option, and not for the sake of it like most “AI” we see today. This is because “AI” is business terminology entirely divorced from the reality of the tech. Machine learning is not genuine intelligence, but a tool for accomplishing goals, and it has very real limitations that make it not useful in all cases.

      The main thing that’ll hold back machine learning in probes is power, with probes relying on barely over 100 watts plus whatever dozens of watts their solar panels can generate in good conditions. Current machine learning hardware consumes many watts of energy to run advanced models, so whatever model is used needs to be extremely streamlined and efficient. This power limitation is not related to computing, but nuclear technology and the cost to send matter to space, so unless we pull compact portable fusion out of our asses, probes can only be so smart.

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        13 hours ago

        GPTs are based on a deep learning architecture called the transformer. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, which is itself a subset of artificial intelligence. -Wikipedia

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    14 hours ago

    heheheee yea… ;(

    id much rather have a cutie toaster instead— but like- no ai, just a cutie face with like - frills and stuff,.

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    15 hours ago

    But the guy who made the fascist toaster keeps saying he’ll get humanity to Mars! I mean, don’t you believe him? Maybe we should send him more tax dollars. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s not like he could collapse our society in a narcissism-fueled campaign of impotent man-child rage, right? Riiiiiight???

  • F/15/[email protected]@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    See, I’m not sure whether that’s true. Putting grok in a toaster seems difficult. It currently requires a medium-size town’s worth of water and enough space to fit several thousand loaves of bread. Is grok in a toaster if I put my phone in a toaster with grok pulled up? Or should we consider an industrial bakery a toaster?

    Edit: I goof’d and cut out the punchline while editing and now I can’t remember it. Shame me for my incompetence

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      4 hours ago

      Well, training an LLM and running that trained LLM are two different things. You can run a trained LLM on a home PC, which admittedly is probably still too much for anything that you could put into a toaster before it just becomes a PC with a toaster.