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  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldThe GPT Era Is Already Ending
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, it always seems that every time someone questions the wisdom or validity of this analogy seems not to understand it.

    It’s either the misunderstanding that the constraints of the hypothetical are finite (a million vs. infinity).

    Or the insistence that any sufficiently infinitesimal chance is “practically zero”, when literally any likelihood multiplied by infinity is going to guarantee an occurrence.

    You can actually expand the infinite monkey theory to say that an infinite number of monkeys using typewriters for an infinite amount of time would write every single book ever written in any language the keyboard is capable of typing, as well as every possible book that could ever even theoretically exist, an infinite number of times, and still be correct.

    Any infinite set of random (or even semi-random) characters will contain every possible set of characters that could ever exist, of any length. The works of Shakespeare are also encoded into Pi, we just haven’t calculated enough digits to discover one yet (and very likely never will).








  • I mean, “game cheats” might be an understatement. Bungie runs an online service, and Ring-1 is creating and selling millions of dollars worth of exploits that allow users to cheat at a game that includes financial transactions and competitive play, by exploiting the servers that run the game.

    Successfully attacking their online service, while indicative of Bungie running an insecure service, would be considered a form of cybercrime, as compared to simply exploiting the game code on your machine. You can’t legally make and sell hacking tools that exploit online services.

    And cheating at competitive play with real-world stakes is fraud.