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Kyle Memoir 🍉<p>I use spellcheck but hate-hate-HATE <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/autocomplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocomplete</span></a> &amp; Siri.</p><p>They only remind me tech is 90% based on assuming we’re stupid and further dumbing us down, the word I want so often not there if not actively avoided.</p><p>Still, there are some annoying <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/typing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typing</span></a> tasks where autocomplete saves effort.</p><p>So here in two posts are my 'Text Replacement' entries in IOS Settings.</p><p>An example is: I type 'isnt' and Text Replace offers 'isn't'.</p><p>2/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/it" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>it</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Kyle Memoir 🍉<p>I use spellcheck but hate-hate-HATE <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/autocomplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocomplete</span></a> &amp; Siri.</p><p>They only remind me tech is 90% based on assuming we’re stupid and further dumbing us down, the word I want so often not there if not actively avoided.</p><p>Still, there are some annoying <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/typing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typing</span></a> tasks where autocomplete saves effort.</p><p>So here in two posts are my 'Text Replacement' entries in IOS Settings.</p><p>An example is: I type 'isnt' and Text Replace offers 'isn't'.</p><p>1/2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/it" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>it</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
Oliver Knabe<p>Your <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> "is an incredibly sophisticated form of pattern matching, so advanced that it can mimic the output of human reasoning for a narrow band of problems. But when tested in a controlled way, its fragility is exposed. It lacks the robust, generalizable, and symbolic logic that underpins true intelligence.</p><p>We’re seeing the limits of very expensive <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/autocomplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocomplete</span></a> that breaks when it matters most."</p><p><a href="https://ninza7.medium.com/apple-just-pulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ninza7.medium.com/apple-just-p</span><span class="invisible">ulled-the-plug-on-the-ai-hype-heres-what-their-shocking-study-found-24ad42c234a0</span></a><br><a href="https://archive.ph/ASo9a" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/ASo9a</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/t</span><span class="invisible">he-illusion-of-thinking.pdf</span></a></p>
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually<p>My sister-in-law wants to buy concert tickets; they’re on presale if you have an Amex platinum card via Ticketmaster:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/ticketmaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ticketmaster</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/autocomplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocomplete</span></a></p>
quangobaud<p>Governments to have "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IllegalMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IllegalMigration</span></a>" meeting to be held in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsLawyer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsLawyer</span></a> also to be attended by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TechCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechCompanies</span></a> promoting expensive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AutoComplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AutoComplete</span></a> programs. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KeirStarmer</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ABunchOfMindlessJerks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABunchOfMindlessJerks</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>AI can't do your job<br>"By firing <a href="https://mato.social/tags/skilledhumanworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skilledhumanworkers</span></a> and replacing them with spicy <a href="https://mato.social/tags/autocomplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocomplete</span></a>, <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> is assuming his final form as both the kind of boss who can be conned into replacing you with a defective chatbot and as the fast-talking sales rep who cons your boss. Musk is transforming key <a href="https://mato.social/tags/gov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gov</span></a> functions into high-speed error-generating machines whose human minders are only the payroll to take the fall for the coming tsunami of <a href="https://mato.social/tags/robotfuckups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robotfuckups</span></a>."<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span><br><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbestos-in-the-walls/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asb</span><span class="invisible">estos-in-the-walls/</span></a></p>
diyelectromusic<p>Oh thank goodness for that.</p><p>The auto "show the closing bracket in the wrong place" feature of the Arduino IDE was starting to get to me...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arduino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arduino</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutoComplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AutoComplete</span></a></p>
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>My bf reports having gotten orange chicken aquifers.</p><p>I blame autocomplete for this disaster!</p><p>:madjoy: </p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/OrangeChicken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OrangeChicken</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/aquifers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aquifers</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/autocomplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocomplete</span></a></p>
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>"Did you get the stuff I wanted?"</p><p>"Yep, I got everything."</p><p>"W.... what is this?"</p><p>"This is the steel wolf you wanted."</p><p>"I did not want a wolf, much less a steel one."</p><p>"See here?"</p><p>"Yeah... it says steel wolf. Oh, I know. The autocomplete fucked us over. I wanted steel wool."</p><p>"Lucky it did not say steal wolf."</p><p>[Both] "Hahahahahhahahaha!"</p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/SteelWool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SteelWool</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/wolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wolf</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/steel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steel</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/steal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>steal</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/autocomplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocomplete</span></a></p>
Adam Beer<p>Okay, one more time for the people in the back.</p><p>The "AI" (🤮) craze of the past few years is all about <strong>Large Language Models.</strong> This immediately tells us that the only thing these systems "know" is trends/patterns in the ways that people write, to the extent that those patterns are expressed in the text that was used to train the model. Even the common term, "hallucination," gives these things far too much credit: a hallucination is a departure from reality, but an LLM has no concept of reality to depart from!</p><p>An LLM does exactly one thing: you give it a chunk of text, and it predicts which word will come next after the end of the chunk. That's it. An LLM-powered chatbot will then stick that word onto the end of the chunk and feed the resulting, slightly longer chunk back into the model to predict the <em>next</em> word, and then do it again for the next, etc. Such a chatbot's output is <strong>unreliable by design,</strong> because there are many linguistically valid continuations to any chunk of text, and the model usually reflects that by having an output that means, "There is a 63% chance that the next word is X, a 14% chance that it's Y, etc." The text produced by these chatbots is often not even <em>correlated</em> with factual correctness, because the models are trained on works of fiction and non-fiction alike.</p><p>For example, when you ask a chatbot what 2 + 2 is, it will <em>usually</em> say it's 4, but not because the model knows anything about math. It's because when people <strong>write about</strong> asking that question, the <strong>text that they write next</strong> is usually a statement that the answer is 4. But if the model's training data includes Orwell's <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four</em> (or certain texts that discuss the book or its ideas), then the chatbot will very rarely say that the answer is 5 instead, because convincing people that that is the answer is a plot point in the book.</p><p>If you're still having trouble, you can think of it this way: when you ask one of these chatbots a question, it does not give you the answer; it gives you <strong>an example</strong> of what—linguistically speaking—an answer <strong>might look like.</strong> Or, to put it even more succinctly: these things are <strong>not the Star Trek ship's computer;</strong> they are <strong>very impressive autocomplete.</strong></p><p>So LLMs are fundamentally a poor fit for any task that is some form of, "producing factually correct information." But if you <em>really</em> wanted to try to force it and damn the torpedos, then I'd say you basically have two options. I'll tell you what they are in a reply. 🧵</p><p><a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/autoComplete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autoComplete</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/chatBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatBots</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/debunking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debunking</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/georgeOrwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>georgeOrwell</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/hallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hallucinations</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/machineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/nineteenEightyFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nineteenEightyFour</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/scienceCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scienceCommunication</span></a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/starTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>starTrek</span></a></p>
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