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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

And not even a good painting but an inconsistent one, whose eyes follow you around the room, and occasionally tries to harm you.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago

That kind of painting seems more likely to come alive

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

New fear unlocked!

... What the hell, man?!

ಥ_ಥ

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bro have you never seen a Scooby Doo episode? This can't be a new concept for you...

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Ok. Put an LLM into a Scooby Doo episode. Then get back to me...

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Agents have debated that the new phenomenon may or may not constitute a new designation. While some have reported the painting following them, the same agents will then later report nothing seems to occur. The agents who report a higher frequency of the painting following them also report a higher frequency of unexplained injury. The injuries can be attributed to cases of self harm, leading scientists to believe these SCP agents were predisposed to mental illness that was not caught during new agent screening.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 5 points 2 days ago

I tried to submit an SCP once but theres a "review process" and it boils down to only getting in by knowing somebody who is in.

And that has between seleven and 14+e^πi^ fingers

[–] lauha@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, human intelligence isn't much better to be honest.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It clearly demonstrably is. Thats the problem, people are estimating AI to be approximate of Humans but its so so so much worse in every way.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean if Ai is right 80%, it's still more than my idiot brother (roughly 30% by my count)

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago

The AI was trained on you and your idiot brother.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are comparing AI to a person who wrote a dictionary i.e. a domain experts. Take an average person from a street and they'll write the same slop as current AIs

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

But you wouldn't hire a random person from a street to write the dictionary. You wouldn't hire a nonspecialist to do anything. If you did, you could at least expect a human to learn and grow, or have a bare minimum standard for ethics, morals, or responsibility for their actions. You could at least expect a person to be capable of learning or growing. You cannot expect that from an AI.

AI have no use case.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

If you did, you could at least expect a human to learn and grow, or have a bare minimum standard for ethics, morals, or responsibility for their actions.

Some do, but you are somehow ignoring the currently most talked about person in the world, the president of the united states. And the party in power. And all the richest men in the world. And literally all the large corporations.

The problem is you are not looking for AI to be average human. You are looking for the domain expert of literally everything and behavior of the best us, but trained on the behaviour of average of all of us.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao, this tech bro is convinced only a minority of people have any learning capacity.

The Republicans were all trained with carrots and sticks, too.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

All do, but a lot of people don't care.

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It sorts data and identifies patterns and trends. You may be referring only to AI enabled LLMs tasked with giving unique and creative output which isn't going to give you any valuable results.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The fuck are you talking about? The entire discussion has been about worthless LLM chatbots from the start.

[–] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago

Now you're getting it