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I write stuff and do tech stuff and comment on Baylor Football from time to time and maybe Cowboys too. This is a personal account and does not imply endorsement by any employer or anyone else.
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Sure. And tools like Copilot and such can rapidly accelerate dev but agree you need to know if the output is right
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Recreate extinct species.
Smuggle exotic pets with rare diseases.
Heck, create new diseases!
Ignore (or accelerate) climate change.
Open a chain of luxury hotels called The White Lotus.
Find a way to have sharks with lasers on their heads.
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Like, who watches a movie that ends in sheer disaster and thinks, "I think I could cause that!"?
Even if asked why they would want to, they'd reply, "But what if I COULD."
"Should" doesn't enter the chat.
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Will be interesting when some of these folks try to get jobs at companies that restrict ChatGPT. Heck some places restrict internet access...
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Came here to make a comment that was exactly this with only slightly different wording. Thank you for saving me the trouble.
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Some are merely observations, like Prison Song from System of a Down lol.
Drowning Pool's Bodies may well be an ode to self-affirmation!
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Hoping MS loses obvs
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I also believe there is a high likelihood that web-trained AI models will collapse on themselves under the weight of consuming their own genAI content.
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My faith that there will be consequences is low, even if he is caught xeroxing page by page and handing them over to a foreign national in exchange for a $20 bill for each page, sadly. But maybe.
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I will admit I struggle with the fact that I agree with many points you make and also work in tech where the prevailing sentiment is inevitability which has caused me to develop an extremely nuanced position that probably fits nobody's rubric save my own.
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I did not say webâtrained "public" genAI engines but understand your position there. And it is very valid in quite a few ways.
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Or... they don't understand how LLMs work and are just fascinated at its mimicry as if it were magic. I am coming around to usefulness in various mundane tasks so long as I am not using it as a creative output plagiarism machine.
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I just love the absolute terrible attempts at best building
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Had to look this one up myself and ... cool. Cool cool cool.
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Lay down for overlord Putin is so much a better answer?
I mean Republicams used to make up WMD threats to go to war with dictators but now it is ... eh, take whatever?
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Real geniuses don't buy Twitter because they made dumb drunk tweets when their wife left them and then ruin it to the point that it loses 75% of the purchase price in value....
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I had someone seriously opine about his genius in successful business yesterday to me and I had a challenge keeping from saying, "You mean spending his dad's emerald mine money on already successful businesses and then tanking several of them due to his lack of business acumen?"
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And note the white guys did not get fired.
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I think there are lots of great uses for LLMs. Especially at the hands of expert prompt engineers. But not EVERY use case of LLMs are a good fit, and, in untrained use, are often making the users worse off.
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I think the other piece of "hate" is really from creatives watching tech bros gobble up their work into models that can then reproduce lower quality plagiarized replicas and call it "art" implying it is just as good. Devalues real art.
And bad answers from an LLM devalue real research and truth.
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That tool you reference for democratization of education is the internet, or maybe Wikipedia.
LLMs are (sometimes helpful, but too often gimmicky) tools that can authoritatively spout inaccurate summaries of regurgitated information, thus reducing research skills AND misinforming. You know this.
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Gross that our country even tries this type of stuff.
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DO IT. You will find the transitions from rom com to horror action... SEVERE perhaps but overall enjoyable imo
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Willard Brimley was 49/50 in Cocoon so there's that going for ya. But also Tom Cruise is 62 now and making MI films so idk.
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Hey I got that reference
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Lol I am OLDER than that old man.
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Hmm what if it is me, not a sports guy, but one who watches sports and is sports adjacent, who may have to learn about some of the sports to explain the sports but is also ADHD and hyper focus and will probably learn more than a podcast content requires... a thought lol
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Um.. duh
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Am curious why you are STILL on Substack...
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Lol my account is also evidently not porn as I too am in that blocklist..
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Also open the floodgates with 200 illegal executive orders and maybe they only catch 195. Still a W if that is the strategy.
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Not speaking for ChatGPT specifically and I am definitely anti-GenAI "art" plagiarism...but if you ARE an expert in something (coding, computations, data analysis, others), LLMs and "GenAI" models can be VERY helpful in doing mundane baseline work faster than you can. Esp if trained on your own work
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Yay he will undo the ban his last administration started. People are so gullible and strategists are anything but.
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If it were universal it would not get on my nerves so frequently...
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Touché but also don't assume that the request to turn them off is due to selfish reasons either, e.g. could be sound sensitivity due to things like autism or other spectrum conditions. Goes both ways.
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No