If an LLM was something you could train on your GitHub repo or an internal knowledge base, and ask it natural language questions about that, AND it didn’t need an 800 acre datacenter to do it, I wouldn’t have so many hang-ups about it. Or maybe even train a model in a programming language and have a model that’s tailor made for writing C, or LISP, or Brainfuck or something.
But that’s not what they are. They only function if you hoover up everything the light touches and feed it to the machine, to the point where rare, irreplaceable literature is being shredded apart for training data. And god help you if you try to take your ball and go play somewhere else as the AI boosters profess you must do, they will follow you there and scrape you anyway
Fucking yes it would be better to put hundreds of billions of dollars every year into curing cancer/HIV/ Type 1 diabetes/alzheimers, literally any disease. Curing a major illness like those would actively help hundreds of thousands or millions of people around the world every year.
What does AI help? My fucking manager in sending cryptic emails that raise more questions than answers?
Dump a few hundred billion into disease research, or fusion power, or just into housing for all of us.
AI helped me with my voting ballot. I asked Kagi’s AI to research the ambiguous candidates and propositions. I had it put them into a political alignment chart - left/centrist/rightwing. Addendums for candidates included things like whether they had criminal convictions or corruption, stance on vaccinations, how they feel about “tough on crime”, the homeless, ect.
For propositions, the political alignments had a fourth entry added, where the yes/no included the wealth level of backers for a position.
This is very useful, completing in a hour what would have taken a week of research. Very useful for digging into the mechanical details of a proposition, like whether it prevented the replacement or supplementing of a measure.
How do you know that anything it displayed was accurate for those candidates? Every single time I’ve asked it to include source links, those source links don’t actually support the AI’s statement.
One of the candidates was appointed to their office by a Republican governor, and elevated more recently by a Democratic one. The AI referred to official government records.
Have you actually used it recently? It’s become incredibly good. Calling it a glorified autocorrect is like calling ASML’s lithography machines a glorified polaroid camera.
An entire industry built around burning cash, water, and electricity to generate questionable answers based on glorified autocorrect. It’s astounding.
Throw another few trillion and a couple dozen rain forests at it. Completely rational behavior.
But have you considered that it’s like REALLY good at programming? /s
What’s stupid is, you could even just keep just the programming part, and it would become much more efficient and not ramble on with explanations etc.
If an LLM was something you could train on your GitHub repo or an internal knowledge base, and ask it natural language questions about that, AND it didn’t need an 800 acre datacenter to do it, I wouldn’t have so many hang-ups about it. Or maybe even train a model in a programming language and have a model that’s tailor made for writing C, or LISP, or Brainfuck or something.
But that’s not what they are. They only function if you hoover up everything the light touches and feed it to the machine, to the point where rare, irreplaceable literature is being shredded apart for training data. And god help you if you try to take your ball and go play somewhere else as the AI boosters profess you must do, they will follow you there and scrape you anyway
You are describing local models and they’re getting pretty damn good, especially at coding.
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alphafold actually COULD have and still got dissolved https://www.aimodeling.com/en/news/slug/deepmind-dissolves-alphafold-team-anthropic-pivot
Not with an LLM you won’t.
obligatory…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JwpQHbMS9c
You act as though those billions of dollars spent towards other things (like cancer research) would somehow be better.
…yes?
Remember to never miss the /s
Marking your sarcasm is the coward’s way out
It’s cowardly to be understood?
Okay, boss. 👍
With a .ml account you need to. I’ve heard way more absurd statements said with a straight face from .ml users
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Fucking yes it would be better to put hundreds of billions of dollars every year into curing cancer/HIV/ Type 1 diabetes/alzheimers, literally any disease. Curing a major illness like those would actively help hundreds of thousands or millions of people around the world every year.
What does AI help? My fucking manager in sending cryptic emails that raise more questions than answers?
Dump a few hundred billion into disease research, or fusion power, or just into housing for all of us.
AI helped me with my voting ballot. I asked Kagi’s AI to research the ambiguous candidates and propositions. I had it put them into a political alignment chart - left/centrist/rightwing. Addendums for candidates included things like whether they had criminal convictions or corruption, stance on vaccinations, how they feel about “tough on crime”, the homeless, ect.
For propositions, the political alignments had a fourth entry added, where the yes/no included the wealth level of backers for a position.
This is very useful, completing in a hour what would have taken a week of research. Very useful for digging into the mechanical details of a proposition, like whether it prevented the replacement or supplementing of a measure.
How do you know that anything it displayed was accurate for those candidates? Every single time I’ve asked it to include source links, those source links don’t actually support the AI’s statement.
My experience too. The source never backs up what the AI claims. It always just makes shit up.
One of the candidates was appointed to their office by a Republican governor, and elevated more recently by a Democratic one. The AI referred to official government records.
Well, that’s one candidate. And a reference to an official gov doc doesn’t meant the info was extracted or summarized accurately.
How about the others?
I refuse. Bluntly, it feels like you are trying to abuse me.
glorified autocorrect and plagiarism/nonatribition.
Have you actually used it recently? It’s become incredibly good. Calling it a glorified autocorrect is like calling ASML’s lithography machines a glorified polaroid camera.
Now now this is the frediverse. Your only allowed to ignore facts and hate on ai around here.
There’s plenty of good reasons to hate AI but in case you missed the notice on the door your not allowed to have nuance. It’s all or nothing.
yep. roided up eliza’s