They’re making a joke by using a logical fallacy known as a false premise.

It’s a thorn, equivalent to a th. Some people get all worked up over them using it like the bloke shat on their mother’s grave.

How could someone do something odd on Lemmy, bastion of normalcy?! It’s so unusual and offensive!

/s

LOL pretend whatever you need to cope.

Fucking hell mate. Not a single shred of self awareness on you, is there?

My pleasure. They seem well intentioned but haven’t the slightest idea what they’re talking about.

Yes, you found the cost per credit hour that is paid to the university by the supporting financial source. The university makes money from tuition while making additional money from the work completed by students and faculty for the research funding. They double dip.

Teaching and research assistantships will also “waive” tuition fees and provide a poverty level stipend, allowing the university to brag about its charity while utilizing low wage grad students to replace positions formerly held by tenure track professors, who are already increasingly displaced by adjunct professors.

How many thousands of PhD candidates do you personally know where you can actually type “well, I only know one person like that so you’re uninformed”?

Mate, you’re on the Internet. Go to your search engine of choice, search for “are most US stem phds fully funded” and behold! Page after page confirming your apparently vast anecdotal knowledge is completely wrong.

It’s absolutely possible but it’s not easy if you don’t have a in demand profession.

One of my closest friends left the US for Germany with about $5000, a suitcase of clothes, and absolutely no specialized work skills. He worked in hostels for room and board, and did part time work for spending money. He had to skirt immigration laws while working to get permanent residency, but got his education in IT for only minor fees each semester and became a citizen after ten years.

It can be done, but it’s much more difficult without lots of money, family, or similar advantages.

If you think you’re being super dismissive with the ‘not worth my time to read’ bit, you should it’s now well into being an overused Internet trope that makes one look childish and lazy.

You’re screaming into the echo chamber, mate. Unless you’re so rabidly anti-AI you believe and spread one of a few comforting, imaginary narratives, you’ll be dog piled.

I’m staunchly critical of AI, but won’t pretend that it only consists of generative AI, that it still operates as poorly as it did years ago, nor that a disturbing percentage of the population either doesn’t care about or actually supports that shit, so I get my share of insults. Being pro-AI won’t get you much civility so set your expectations low. Unless you’re trolling. Then you’ve nailed it.

We bought one a fair bit before Musk went full Neo Nazi. It’s a great car, the best car I’ve ever owned. The only repair in nearly 180k km was a known issue covered by warranty. They could be fantastic if the company wasn’t run by a moronic, petulant Neo-Nazi.

JFC. Zero self awareness here. Peak fucking American.

I suggest you deport them back to where they came from, typically the nicer, more habitable parts of the United States, and give them whatever is there now. It’s a poor deal for the Lenape, though, as they’d get New Jersey.

Electrical engineering. My mentioned coworkers are competent but more junior in the field. We did a miniature internal study and found the best models provided accurate, relevant information on the first prompt about 90% of the time when asked to explain or verify concepts. The remainder consisted of hallucinations or misunderstood queries.

They struggled with questions that instead required complex problem, providing some mixture of appropriate solutions, overly complex but still functional solutions, and hallucinated shite.

I recommended that we do not move forward with adopting AI in any capacity. While it has some utility for basic information retrieval and fact checking, it still required someone with sufficient knowledge to be able to quickly evaluate the quality of its output. Helpful for someone who knows what they’re doing, dangerous 10% if the time for someone who does not. I also highlighted the ethical concerns, many of which my peers were unaware.

I really appreciate your dismissive, arrogant tone. Your casual dismissing of my anecdote really added to how you provided even less substance to support your point.

But hey, it got you those “supporting the echo chamber by dunking on dissent” up votes, and that’s what we’re all here for, right?

Unpopular Opinion Incoming

I was assigned at work to evaluate a few LLMs for potential adoption, so I spent a solid week doing so.

Most of the “AI is broken and doesn’t work” on here is solid echo chamber cope. It’s more competent than several of my coworkers, though it’s thankfully not ready to replace knowledge workers as it requires a knowledge baseline to best direct it and evaluate its answers.

I still advised against using it for multiple reasons, including ethics, but much of Lemmy is playing make believe about the actual capabilities of LLMs.

It’s so they can repurpose that capacity for developing robots. It’s not good at all.

OpenAI told the BBC on Wednesday that it has discontinued Sora so that it can focus on other developments, such as robotics “that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3e467ewqo

JFC RTFM

But how else do people like this feel superior without having an under class to constantly shit on? By the merit of their own achievements? Hah!

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