Humans are also "pattern recognition engines". That's why optical illusions and similar completely mess with our brains. There are patterns that we perceive as moving/rotating even though the pattern is completely stationary.
But nobody would claim that you can't trust your eyes in general just because optical illusions exist.
Your boss expects you to weld with good quality but they don't expect you to answer every question there is, without any mistakes. The problem with LLMs is that they are trained purely on text found on the internet but they have no "life experience" and thus there world model is very different from ours. There are overlaps (that's why they can produce any coherent output at all) but there are situations that make perfect sense in its world model, that's complete bogus in the real world.
It's a bit like the shadows in Platons cave allegory. LLMs are practically trained only on the shadows and so the output is completely based on that shadow world. LLMs can describe pain (because it was in the training data) but it was never smacked in the face.
I think you are right. IMHO the room actually does speak/understand Chinese, even of the robot/human in the room does not.
There are no neurons in your brain that "understand" English, yet you do. Intelligence is an emergent property. If you "zoom-in" enough everything is just laws of physics and those laws don't understand English or Chinese.
To be fair all of what you've said applies to humans too. Look how many flat earthers there are and even more people that believe in homeopathy or think that vaccines give you autism, think that aliens built the pyramids.
But nobody calls that "hallucinations" in humans. Are LLMs perfect? Definitely not. Are they useful? Somewhat; but definitely extremely far from PhD level intelligence as some claim.
But there are things LLMs are why better than any single human already (not collectively). Giving you a hint (doesn't have to be 100% accurate) what topics to look up if you can just describe is vaguely but don't know what you would even search for in a traditional search engine.
Of course you can not trust it blindly, but you shouldn't trust humans blindly either, that's we we have the scientific method, because humans are unreliable too.
Black holes are GR and it wouldn't make the calculations much different. Take the moon for example, the orbit would be exactly the same no matter if earth is a rocky planet, a black hole or a point mass.
A non sequitur seems reasonable to you?
As far as I can remember Windows 11 only shows the time on default installations and there are GUI options to change the shown format on the taskbar.
"Some things are going to be different" basically means that they would have to learn to deal with manual config changes and command line stuff.
I personally don't expect the "end-user readyness" of Linux Distros to ever be a serious competition to OSes developed by huge teams driven by trillion dollar companies like Apple and Microsoft. Basically all Linux Distributions I'd consider "end-user ready" and polished are themselves developed by huge companies - like Android, ChromeOS, SteamOS.
I think the biggest issue Linux has on the desktop is the sheer amount of choice for practically everything. The ecosystem is so fractured.
So the choice is actually not between Windows, Mac and Linux, but between Windows, Mac and about thirty Linix distributions where not even experienced Linux Desktop users can agree on which they should suggest to the general public.
Which distro should I suggest to my neighbor? And are you sure other "Linux experts" would agree with your answer?
Floating point numbers and arithmetic is not inaccurate. They are actually very accurate but a lot of developers have inaccurate assumptions about them. They can't exactly represent base 10 decimals. That's the only inaccuracy. If you have two floating point numbers and you let's say add or multiply them the result is always the closest floating point representation of the real result.
The list of misconceptions wouldn't reasonably fit in a comment, but if you are really interested and have a few minutes you could give that a read: https://zeta.one/floats-are-not-inaccurate/
But it's also pretty expensive to test every stupid statement somebody said.
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Go to Google images and search for "Desktop". What you see is Desktop machines amd setups and how I and the vast majority of the world use the word "Desktop".
Now search for "handheld game console". It's very likely that one of the first few results is literally a SteamDeck.
Now back to the stats. As I already said. SteamDeck will be tracked as a Desktop because stat tracking sites just use Browser User Agents and try to detect what the device actually is, but that's very hard if not right out impossible because clients (including the SteamDeck) intentionally (for privacy and compatibility reasons) lie about what they are all the time!
If you take your mobile browser and enable "Desktop site" or "Desktop mode" it will lie(!) and make the server think it's a Desktop - even though it is really not. A smartphone doesn't magically become a Desktop PC. If I browse the web with my typical mobile browser - every site will track my activity as smartphone. If I switch to Desktop mode most sites will track me as a Linux Desktop Machine. But my device has not changed.
So you are right that the SteamDeck is tracked as a Desktop PC. But that's because the Server has has either no better category for the device or can't determine what the device really is because it lies about what it is.
https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
Stat tracking always had (and will have) two big issues (which can't really be fixed).
Devices which lie about what they are (see link above) and the problem that they have to come up with some categories and there will always be some devices which fall between the categories (Think fridge, microwaves, sex toys, etc.).
If your SteamDeck is currently actually connected to a monitor a mouse and a keyboard than you are actually using it as a Desktop PC. But if you use it like most people - even though the SteamDeck lies about it - it's not a Desktop, because the word "Desktop" really is about the form factor - it's not just my definition. Give any of your friends a piece of paper and a pencil and ask them to draw a Desktop PC - I would actually be amazed if anybody in the world (even you! outside the context of this discussion) would draw anything even remotely resembling a Steam Deck.
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True, but It's still not what I meant unless they kill those humans. The employees that did that work before still need the 100W. It might be that they can now do something else (or just be unemployed) but the net energy usage is not going down.
Try using the on screen keyboard with Firefox. On so many extensions the keyboard just doesn't work (concrete example: tampermonkey code editor). And it's not like it doesn't work at all - you can insert new characters but backspace and new line is broken.
Now try OSK on Windows - never had a single issue that it doesn't work where a real keyboard would have worked.