@nixCraft this is indeed happening
@nixCraft the guy who recruited me has "prompt engineer" in his LinkedIn profile because asking AI to do something is a skill.
@nixCraft Investors: we are backing up a dumptruck full of money to boost ChatRoverPup. Tell us, is there any way you could build in some crypto and VR functionality too?
@nixCraft actually, dogs understand human languages a little bit.
@anton_lytvynenko @nixCraft from my experience, it's more understanding tone of voice than word sounds. I can say the same thing to my Samoyed in Dutch, French or English with the same result, but that doesn't mean that Sandy is multilingual.
@MarkBaker @nixCraft from my experience, both things matter. They surely listen to tone. But sometimes we talk with my wife and use a word related to food and the dog "activates" immediately apparently thinking that lunch is coming.
@anton_lytvynenko @MarkBaker @nixCraft Agreed. I had to avoid certain words in casual conversations with my partner, like "walk", as that would trigger the dog. We ended up segregating our vocabulary: one for us, and one specifically for the dog. That way we wouldn't confuse him.
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… and there is body language. They are very precise observers who register the smallest, even involuntary or unconscious gestures and can also read them at some point. Our current dog who came to us when she was 14 and is now 19 and has quite bad sight by now reacts better to (large) hand movements than to my voice. (Well, if she is in the mood … )
So-called “AI” is much more one-dimensional.
@MarkBaker @anton_lytvynenko @nixCraft exactly!
Just like we humans interpret animals' sounds by virtue of observation...
Being called over will yield the expected Pawlovian Reflexes if calling a pet by their name is related to positive and rewarding interactions.
Similar with human languagues: One doesn't need to fluently speak a languague to understand if someone's crying out of pain or frustration...
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The most a dog has supposedly learned is 1000 words, most of them around very basic concepts. While we actually could use dogs in some DX models and probably train them well for it (there's certain medical conditions that have scents and whatnot), they still wouldn't be able to understand what they were actually doing anymore than "AI" does.
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What I already said about the scents of medical conditions?
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You're literally the one that brought dogs into this, I was giving actual facts on dog capabilities
@nixCraft Anything to save a dime even if it doesn't work.
There are many dogs that understand language better than CEOs.
Well when you consider the same piece of shit who forced Britney Spears to work drugged and under conservatorship - Gary Loveman - now runs Aetna Health Insurance and is teaming up with Jeff Bezos for telehealth, making it more impossible to see a real doctor, this is fucking true.
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Meanwhile, cancer-diagnosing pigeons are paid not even minimum wage.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-pigeons-to-diagnose-cancer/
@nixCraft I got a questionnaire from a hospital about my thoughts on the use of AI tools in medical care.
This is a rapidly escalating crisis.
@nixCraft me: I've had a sore throat and fever for the past few da-
AI doctor: CANCER!
Me: but you di-
AI doctor: CANCER! STAGE 4!
I'd like to recommend replacing "do exist" with "are running everything".
@nixCraft the sad part is that this is a decades-long issue of #ManagmentCulture where absurd incentives for short-term gain gets greedy assholes to run shit into the grund at full force.
As I have discovered, they already used AI in corporate medicine like kaiser.
@nixCraft is the dog accepting new patients and do they take my insurance
@nixCraft @briankrebs “Toonces the Driving Cat” from SNL in the 80s wasn’t supposed to be prophecy.
@Nixcraft the analogy works better with parrots IMHO