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Personal growth is hard when you leave no room (time) for it.

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You know how companies are "reshaping" LLMs in response to them producing results they don't like (termed "hallucinations" for marketing purposes), even though the data they trained the LLMs on included at least chunks of whatever resulted in said "bad" results?

Imagine getting a lobotomy every time you said something people didn't like. 0_0

#AI #LLM

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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

If you say "it's just a computer program", you contradict the marketing that LLMs are able to "think". :P


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Motorcycle AI Vision is coming. But what is it really worth?

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Doesn't using an #LLM to create large portions of your codebase mean that you end up with a lot of code that nobody understands unless they put in the time to go through it and learn what it's doing? If so, it's not much different from writing the code from scratch in the long one. :/

(Yes, I know about boilerplate and do think that's a valid use case as long as you know what the boilerplate is doing.)

#AI #programming

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It also worries me that a lot of people will forget how to write the more difficult code that they're offloading onto code generators (LLM or otherwise). They'll basically become captive customers out of fear of losing their jobs. :/
in reply to Neil E. Hodges

@baltakatei you shouldn't be allowed to use it professionally until you proved you can work competently without it.
in reply to Sick Sun

I hope that will be the case long-term, but I have the bad feeling it won't be. :/
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but will people who get the licence be fit to pass the exam again after say a decade of atrophy?
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What if part of the push for #LLMs ('AI') is sort of a 'gateway drug" for getting people into programming? It teaches how to format queries, albeit using human language instead of special syntaxes. 🤔

#LLM #AIs #AI #ArtificalIntelligence


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I kind of prefer traditional search engines over textual LLMs that require the input of coherent sentences for the models to "understand". The older way was like driving stick or riding a "normal" motorcycle, while LLMs are like driving automatic or riding a gasoline-powered motorscooter. 🤪 #LLM #AI
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Consider trying Perplexity - my main use-case is to just type in an unfamiliar word and press send. It comes back with a paragraph to explain what the word means, with linked citations to the web pages that the information came from. It has almost replaced Google/Bing on my phone, since "what does that word mean" covers 90% of my phone searches anyway.

I used it last night to learn that the unfamiliar word on a menu was a type of goat cheese that I had not heard of before.



LLMs really are just the next evolution of search engines. #AI #LLM
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...or improvement in searching skills, obsoletes the need for llm.
in reply to Neil E. Hodges

Feels more like the next evolution of smartphone keyboards.


I read somewhere that when someone uses an #LLM / " #AI" to "create" art, it's more like commissioning an artist with a request rather than actually being the artist. Seems like a reasonable way to think about it.
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

and not commissioning an actual artist but a fraud who will steal some art and package it up in plausible deniability for you.

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Engineers are supposed to target efficiency and quality, but LLMs/"AI" are the opposite of that. They're exceedingly energy hungry and produce mediocre results that still require human intervention after the fact. Seems like a dead end until we've figured out better ways to implement them. 🤷‍♂️

#LLM #AI

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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

Also seems like a metaphor for the inefficiencies that profit motive brings to an economy.

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It seems like if all the public domain books in the world are not enough to teach you to write well, it’s not a very good model of language.

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Would you mind editing to add alt-text? Maybe something like: "A news headline that reads: 'Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot: Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.'"
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but yah, this is fantastic. I really hope all the people in the U.S. who got promised $1 Chevies by their stupid AI chatbots sue to get their free cars now; that'll teach them what they get when they fire workers for stupid technology real quick.


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What Grok’s recent OpenAI snafu teaches us about LLM model collapse

Instead, it was model collapse—though Babuschkin didn’t use those exact words. “The issue here is that the web is full of ChatGPT outputs, so we accidentally picked up some of them when we trained Grok on a large amount of web data,” he wrote. “This was a huge surprise to us when we first noticed it.” Grok was notably set up to pull from livestreams of internet content, including X’s feed of posts, which was identified as a potential issue by experts who spoke to Fast Company a month ago.

“It really shows that these models are not going to be reliable in the long run if they learn from post-LLM age data—without being able to tell what data has been machine-generated, the quality of the outputs will continue to decline,” says Catherine Flick, a professor of ethics and games technology at Staffordshire University.

The reason for that decline is the recursive nature of the LLM loop—and exactly what could have caused the snafu with Grok. “What appears to have happened here is that Elon Musk has taken a less capable model,” says Ross Anderson, one of the coauthors of the original paper that coined the term model collapse, “and he’s then fine-tuned it, it seems, by getting lots of ChatGPT-produced content from various places.” Such a scenario would be precisely what Anderson and his colleagues warned could happen come to life. (xAI did not respond to Fast Company’s request for comment.)

#LLM #AI

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When you think about it, "AI" visual art is really just collages. 🤔 #AI #LLM
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#Dada and #Surrealism did it long before. It are some new techniques to get random unexpected. #AI throws out a bag full of it with an eye glimps. It's still the artist, the viewer to judge the result. In a #Fluxus
And the results are a Mix of what the #KI had seen, and everybody knew before. It's just stunning perfectly done.
Now for an artist not to seem just like AI, mass product, he has to be as unperfect as an AI never would be. It is the idea, #Konzeptkunst what makes #conceptual #art
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Has the #AI hype train cooled down yet?
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

no. Today Stack Overflow told me they were making search "AI powered". What a colossal waste of resources to solve a non-problem.

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LLMs are AIs in the same way that a kid's tricycle is an automobile. #AI #LLM #ChatGPT

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Cat, I farted.
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!y wife's name is Cat. This is heard in my how all day, every day.


What if we replaced rich people with #AI? 🤔
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Why think when you could let an algorithm do it for you? :P #AI
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What we thought #AI was going to be: Intelligent robots and self-flying cars.
What AI ended up being: Bullshit generators.
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