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[–] [email protected] 236 points 3 months ago (9 children)

But it literally did nail it?

It's giving you a list of the items that were received in the 12 Days of Christmas. And it's correct.

12*1=12

11*2=22

10*3=30

And so on.

If you wanted the lyrics, that's a different question.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago (1 children)

so it's "Ackshully as a Service", gotcha

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ackshully... It should be: "AaaS".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I think it's Ass.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The emoji was standing in for the “A” for “ackshully”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Only if you assume that everything on the list was additive to the initial gifts every time. I think you can infer from the context of the song, the holiday, how gift-giving works, etc. that they were just appending to the list of gifts each day.

But those are the sort of things that LLMs are incapable of doing.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (7 children)

That's what the lyrics say though.

On the X day of Christmas my true love gave to me, X [item], X-1 [item], etc.

The song explicitly states they give this stuff every day.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’ve never assumed that interpretation. I always thought the gifts were given each day. So you end up with twelve partridges and pear trees at the end. The song says “on the nth day of christmas my true love gave to me” doesn’t that imply you are receiving all those gifts that day?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This 1955 featurette interpreted it as re-gifting daily. It ends up being a LOT of birds.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago

I mean.... It's not wrong, actually.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

That's right though. Each day you get an increasing number of an item plus all the items from the previous days again.

Enjoy your birds.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago

Another classic example of a technically correct answer missing nuance and context.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (3 children)

christmas wouldn't be christmas without 42 geese

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

The honkening

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Twist: They're alive. And they're angry. Choose your weapon.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

42 is a bit much, but I wouldn't turn down a Christmas goose:

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When will the AI slop end?

Most of common information is usually wrong. When programmers gaslight themselves into using it, the code is almost always wrong. Artists are all pissed, because both Nvidia and "Open"AI trained their data on hundreds of terabytes of stolen data too.

The only ones still satisfied with this, are the top 0.01% billionaires, who continue selling these products to companies, who in turn buy this only because of peer pressure

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I say this as someone in big tech, AI is pushed because it's an easy lie to keep big companies viewed as innovating to shareholders. I say this knowing that Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon have contributed significantly to AI research in the last few years alongside the obvious contributions of OpenAI - the goal isn't groundbreaking AI work, but to act as a smoke-screen to show that nothing else has been delivered.

Google has lost ground in advertising, and is losing customers on many of their services. Amazon is losing ground in cloud computing and in retail. Apple has stagnated with recent poor releases. Microsoft has made ground in cloud, but has struggled in advertising, Xbox, Office, and Windows. They use GenAI to keep their stock price high, otherwise they'd drop like a sack of shit because shareholders would say "what the fuck have you even done in the last half a decade?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

This makes so much sense.

I always thought, surely their higher ups must know this is utter garbage?

They do but it's just to scam investors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

^^^^^ 🛎️ 🛎️ 🛎️ This! Anything but forever-growth is a failure, and the hype train must roll forward… even if the tracks it’s riding on are bubble gum and wishes.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seriously. I cannot wait for the hype about these stochastic parrots to die.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stochastic parrots is an excellent phrase.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Google fired a co-inventor of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timnit_Gebru

Following her departure, Google held a forum to discuss experiences with racism at the company, and employees reported to NBC News that half of it was spent discrediting Gebru, which they took as the company making an example of her for speaking out. The forum was followed up with a group psychotherapy session for Google's Black employees with a licensed therapist, which the employees said was dismissive

It's a real fucking laugh. It seems Google's go to response to discrimination is to hire psychs to calm it's employees. Real cyberpunk corpo shit. "Let's fix your thinking."

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So... did I miss the cooking time on this recipe? 350 for how long? And this recipe serves how many??? What is happening right now?!?!!???

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was always taught 350 for 2 hrs but will occasionally do 400 for 1.5 hrs if I'm in a hurry. Also I usually leave out the drummers, they get stuck in my food processor.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

This is entirely correct actually. Number of items on day n = (13 - n)*n

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Damn, and I thought the original gift-giver in the song was already being totally unreasonable.

Can you imagine all the droppings their true love would have to clean up from all those birds?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

French Hens are just pretentious chicken fries

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I swear AI chat bots were better in 2023 than they have been in 2024. It feels like they really shit the bed this year. Maybe I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Tbh I feel like it’s when they attached them to the internet and over burdened them with system prompts.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Pascal: "I am having the best Christmas right now."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Natalie Cole's version of this does this at the end.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6duQOU1agBhIZy09WXam0e

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Did everybody get this as a maths problem nearly every year in primary school, and again in high school when triangle numbers were brought up?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

This is embarrassing, bro

[–] otter 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I wonder if there is any pattern to those numbers

edit: ah I didn't notice, thanks all :)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

It has totalled them as the items are sent everyday after they are introduced.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If n is the day the item is introduced, the total quantity is 42-(n-6.5)^2^.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Easier: n(13-n).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Empirically, 42.25 instead of 42.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Start with 10 and subtract 2 for every step

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

gotta account for inflation

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