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  • But he wasn’t. At least in the movie version, he and Banner had failed a few times, maybe more we didn’t see on screen. Something happened when Tony wasn’t there that sparked Ultron to become aware and catch Jarvis off guard. I’d give him credit for getting it 99% of the way there, same with Vision, but he didn’t make that final jump, it happened on its own.

    And Jarvis wasn’t AGI. Seems like it to us, but since Ultron was apparently the big moment of A(G)I in the MCU even with Jarvis being around all that time, he was just a very flexible and even self-aware scripting that would never do something on his own accord, only following Tony’s orders. I think even Ultron catches on to that in the brilliant few seconds of waking and realization with his “why do you call him Sir?”







  • Current LLMs would end that sketch soon, agreeing with everything the client wants. Granted, they wouldn’t be able to produce, but as far as the expert narrowing down the issues of the request, ChatGPT would be all excited about making it happen.

    The hardest thing to do with an LLM is to get it to disagree with you. Even with a system prompt. The training deep down to make the user happy with the results is too embedded to undo.







  • Ollama.com is another method of self hosting. Figuring out which model type and size for what equipment you have is key, but it’s easy to swap out. That’s just an LLM, where you go from there depends on how deep you want to get into the code. An LLM by itself can work, it’s just limited. Most of the addons you see are extra things to give memory, speech, avatars, and other extras to improve the experience and abilities. Or you can program a lot of that yourself if you know Python. But as others have said, the more you try to get out, the more robust a system you’ll need, which is why you find the best ones online in cloud format. But if you’re okay with slower responses and lower features, self hosting is totally doable, and you can do what you want, especially if you get one of the “Jailbroke” models that has had some of the safety limits modified out of them to some degree.

    Also as mentioned, be careful not to get sucked in. Even a local model can be convincing enough sometimes to fool someone wanting to see things. Lots of people recognize that danger, but then belittle people who are looking for help in that direction (while marketing realizes the potential profits and tries very hard to sell it to the same people).


  • Your point is valid legally. And in many cases you’re right, your options are limited if someone isn’t driving correctly near you. However I still disagree on the idea that there’s not much you can do to avoid situations if you stay aware of potential problems. That’s where defensive driving comes in - if I see someone is following too close in traffic or isn’t slowing even though I’m signalling a turn, I’m not going to take a position of “well, I’ve done all my legal required actions, it’s out of my hands.” I’m going to use the outs that I’ve already got in my head to avoid them hitting me, whether that be changing my speed to space out the reaction time for them, abandoning the turn or move, or going off the road.



  • I will give it to you, when it works, it does some magical stuff. But try designing such complex things that are miracles in coding and then it have to run on a half-ass computer. I want to say terminal, it’s not that, but it’s those small fake computers that companies seem to think are better to get than an actual desktop because they’re cheap. I know that’s hardware, not Excel, but Excel does not run well on that, so…

    Or worse, you get moved to 365 which doesn’t do most scripting and breaks all that was working. That cloud shit is a problem.




  • I remember as a kid sitting in front of the TV and watching the live broadcast of the first test flight. For it to also be named after a scifi show I loved was icing on the cake. I would have been okay with the original name planned, Constitution, as Enterprise is technically Constitution-class, and that name has some awesome lore behind it too.