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[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago

Oh well done. Now I'm feeling warm and fuzzy.

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 44 points 11 months ago
[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

Very unexpected for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. A nice surprise for the morning.

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Haha, that's so far from reality though. Dad is talking about boring things again, I will cover my ears and scream.

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Children are often a mirror to our true selves. My daughter is fascinated by the world, and loves learning. She's a sponge for new knowledge. The only limitation is building up the layers of knowledge, to understand what you are trying to teach.

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Children are often a mirror to our true selves.

Woah, that was a good roast.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

My 6 year old loves to learn about math, sciences, a few other subjects to a lesser degree, plus practical stuff, like driving/traffic behavior. He mainly likes biological sciences and astronomy, but some physics and engineering.

[-] oldfart@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Must be nice

[-] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago

It’s pretty fascinating that babies are largely the same across big timescales and just learn the culture of the time. They are ready to learn “utopia”, we just have to figure out how to teach it.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

I feel like my knowledge would be too basic. I’d get the gist of it but not well enough to replicate and they’d just humor me bc they'd think I’m special.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

I run up against that with my kiddos, so I just show them how to get answers and how to learn. When they get older, I'll teach them more about vetting sources and sussing out misinformation. I already have taught them as much about that as I can for their age.

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 17 points 11 months ago

I was expecting the baby to pee in his face or something. Why have you tricked me into feelings, internet? Why?

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 16 points 11 months ago

I've had this very exact thought. I think the urge to tell the story of the world is parental instinct.

Whenever the kiddos ask a question, I don't stop answering and describing until they get bored... Sometimes beyond that.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago

I have the same urge, but rather to be a teacher/mentor than a parent. Too bad the US doesn't want to pay teachers what they're worth, or I'd strongly consider a career change.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 11 months ago

I've had the exact same thought and it's not just in the US. Teachers are woefully underpaid in general. I think a part of the problem is that there's so many teachers that it would very expensive for society as a whole to give them a higher salary. I would totally do teaching if it paid better though.

[-] anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

This was on the door to my office before my life ended in 2018.

Thank you for making me remember and cry.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 10 points 11 months ago

Don't want to assume too much but I'm sorry for your loss.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago

very wholesome, 10/10 would recommend.

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

daily reminder i will die alone.

[-] skulbuny@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've already resigned to the fact that I will probably die alone in an apartment not to be found for weeks because no one checks in on me other than my parents. I won't kill myself, but I'm not good at socializing

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Most people aren’t good at things they don’t practice. But lots of people get really good at things they weren’t good at.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago

We've already got LLMs that can simulate conversing with those dead people to some degree, I wouldn't say they're beyond the reach of any technology. In a few years they might be good enough simulations that you can't tell the difference.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago

People downvoted you but I don't think they touched on the main idea; I don't want to show Einstein modern physics for my entertainment, I want to teach it so he can be amazed.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 11 months ago

good enough simulations that you can't tell the difference.

This requires us having actual conversations with those dead people to compare against, which we obviously can't do.

There is simply not enough information to train a model on of a dead person to create a comprehensive model of how they would respond in arbitrary conversations. You may be able to train with some depth in their field of expertise, but the whole point is to talk about things which they have no experience with, or at least, things which weren't known then.

So sure, maybe we get a model that makes you think you're talking to them, but that's no different than just having a dream or an acid trip where you're chatting with Einstein.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There is simply not enough information to train a model on of a dead person to create a comprehensive model of how they would respond in arbitrary conversations.

True. And even if we did, most of them would be super racist, anyway. Just like chatbots from a few years ago!

Wait, maybe we do have the necessary technology...Hooray? Lol.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 0 points 11 months ago

Well, I'd think you'd test that model with living authors with similar inputs and make comparisons and then refine the process till nobody can tell the difference. We'll never get all the way there, but I bet we'll get far enough that we won't be able to tell the difference.

As for when... Who knows?

[-] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

No, they are beyond the reach of any technology. An Isaac Newton themed chatbot isn't actually the spirit of Isaac Newton. It's a chatbot.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 19 points 11 months ago

Can't wait to ask my dead grandma to write a Python script for me

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago

Socrates character AI is no fun. He isn't clever or insightful or skeptical.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 11 months ago

As I said, wait a few years. The technology is rapidly advancing.

[-] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

They might mimic those things in a convincing fashion in a few years but there wouldn't be a reason for them to exist. There's no person behind the curtain, or inside the multilayered, statistically-weighted, series of if statements.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Just give him a tablet with youtube kids on 24/7.

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