I really cannot express how much I hate that a technology with such potential has been almost completely co-opted by the most smooth-brained anti-intellectual failsons and thieves.
It’s like we invented hammers and immediately decided to use them only to break our own fingers.
It’s like we invented hammers and immediately decided to use them only to break our own fingers.
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Craig Shackleton
It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.
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I am glad that I was not drinking at the time that I read this because I totally would have snarfed my coffee out my nose.
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The underlying technology *can* be useful.
how does it do prediction, though, when LLMs can’t do prediction but only string correlated “phrases” together?
genuinely curious
There are a zillion documented examples of LLM-suggested code being wrong (inefficient, deprecated, nonfunctional), and it often requires an expert to prompt it correctly and realize when it’s wrong.
that’s just one recent vulnerability
bad actors can also poison the well in the “use glue to keep your cheese from sliding off your pizza” way
Giving an LLM to a novice as a “coding assistant” is a recipe for a ton of potential terrifying problems.
I keep trying to explain to management that “repeatedly fucking it up and figuring out why” is how you turn junior scientists/programmers/engineers into senior scientists/programmers/engineers. 🤷🏼♀️
Certainly not tons more than implemented coins. It's not about the public. It's about the people who paid for products deployed.
When polled most people in different ai groups are left and liberal too
And then there's this extreme other world of wack-a-doodle side of it.
I’ve seen people doing amazing things with chemical and genomic LLMs, or LLMs for things like pandemic prediction. LLMs to write pointless business emails… ugh. why.
But I will admit I like the LLM "word salad" ability a bit. It can be fun to rubber ducky some phrasing with. I do think that is best done on local models though.