#vent · Neon Genesis Phijkchu

Spooky Phijkchu May 15, 2025 9:14 PM vent

because you'll become red mist

Spooky Phijkchu May 15, 2025 9:15 PM vent

but if YOU'RE the one in the box truck....

Rusp May 15, 2025 9:16 PM vent

I'm glad I could guess the Spooky strategy correctly

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:43 PM vent

Replying to Rusp #rusp.

My CS degree has a course for "properly prompting generative AI"

This was as much of a meme class as it sounded

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:43 PM vent

Holy fuck

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:44 PM vent

I'm nearing the end of the reading and they still feel the need to write "Artificial Intelligence (AI)"

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:44 PM vent

This must be made for pure boomers or some shit

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:45 PM vent

what is the time frame for this course?

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:45 PM vent

summer?

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:45 PM vent

Two months

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:46 PM vent

are you on a quarter system?

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:46 PM vent

(But you can complete it at any time I guess)

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:46 PM vent

No

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:46 PM vent

self study?

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:46 PM vent

It's a self study type

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:47 PM vent

maybe the writer wanted to make sure the reader didn't think it was about a guy named AL

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:47 PM vent

I really don't know why anyone would ever need this class

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:48 PM vent

Half of the reading is legitimately the same point over and over again

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:48 PM vent

That point being

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:48 PM vent

"Hey, did you know that if you give detailed instruction you will be more likely to get the answer you are seeking?"

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:48 PM vent

Holy shit...

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:50 PM vent

yeah its just like a search engine but far worse

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:51 PM vent

Yeah but that's okay

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:51 PM vent

They also explained the exact same process but for search engines

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:52 PM vent

If this class actually taught someone anything I would assume they were fucking retarded

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:52 PM vent

(Or just inept with technology)

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:52 PM vent

This same logic is incredibly obvious and is applicable to ASKING HUMANS questions

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:53 PM vent

they should throw in some disclaimers that AI will never be your friend

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:53 PM vent

Funnily enough they did the opposite sort of

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:53 PM vent

They expressed the importance of AI being nice and saying please and thank you

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:54 PM vent

To ensure a comfortable user experience

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:54 PM vent

didn't one of the OpenAI guys just say saying thank you does nothing and wastes millions of dollars of electricity?

Spooky Phijkchu May 15, 2025 10:54 PM vent

Rusp, they tried to push that HARD on boomers when the Amazon Alexas came out

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:55 PM vent

Replying to legorhin #jazardly

didn't one of the OpenAI guys just say saying thank you does nothing and wastes millions of dollars of electricity?

Yes

Spooky Phijkchu May 15, 2025 10:55 PM vent

news networks were running stories non-stop about how if you don't thank your Alexa you were a bad person

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:55 PM vent

This is the only class I've had where I thought "this is explicitly a waste of time"

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:55 PM vent

There is genuinely nothing to be learned here past some things maybe you hadn't considered?

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:56 PM vent

All of which could be explained in one sentence instead of half a page

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:56 PM vent

I thought that about my Engineering Ethics course because it was all obvious solution thought experiments

Spooky Phijkchu May 15, 2025 10:56 PM vent

Replying to legorhin #jazardly

I thought that about my Engineering Ethics course because it was all obvious solution thought experiments

Would you build the Pollution Machine™️

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:57 PM vent

no but I would intentionally raise the global temperature

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:57 PM vent

I think the only thing where ive been like, "I guess I hadn't really considered" was the thought that the "persona" of the AI can have different effects on the output of information

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:58 PM vent

and that is an inherent flaw

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:58 PM vent

Correct

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:58 PM vent

Unless the persona is "tell me facts that are slightly wrong"

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:59 PM vent

They don't describe it as a flaw though

legorhin May 15, 2025 10:59 PM vent

the research into citing stuff properly is still ongoing and young

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:59 PM vent

They more count it as a feature

Rusp May 15, 2025 10:59 PM vent

Like... oh that quirky AI!

legorhin May 15, 2025 11:01 PM vent

I had to sit through 5 hours of grad students making barely functional language model experiments. There was so much bad training data and hallucinations in outputs.

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