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    This whole endeavor is - at best - completely pointless.

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        The entire point of em-dashes as identifier for LLMs is not the usage of dashes/hyphens/whatever themselves - dashes are just part of normal human writing. The point is that almost no human would use actual em-dashes in a normal conversation, as using them is very annoying with a full sized keyboard and a pointless detour on a phone at best. Therefore, it’s usually reserved for professional writing (Books, studies, etc.). But LLMs don’t distinguish, and just use the most common token of their training data, which is em-dash, even when it doesn’t fit.

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        Point to where the emdash is located on my physical keyboard, human.

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          Most word-processors will replace two ‘-’ with an em-dash. Incidentally, when I just wrote out -- is was replaced with an em-dash here on lemmy.

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          10 days ago

          Alt+0151 (might only be one of you Alt keys, depends which one you established as the Alt character controller)

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          I was making a joke that commetor was AI but has leanred to fool us with hyphens now, as we are onto emdash…but oh well

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    In other news, copilot has entered outlook, and is wholely more useless than I could’ve ever imagined

    It cannot even parse emails other than the one you have open. It cannot search email topics for relavent information. Even specifying how many digits the job number Im looking for, it just spits the email I currently have open.

    Same week my company announces our own* AI and several training courses to pair. Someone please tell me how this isn’t simply an extraordinary waste of time??