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what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
that much
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The reason they're pushing so hard for LLMs and AI is because they can afford
a zillion Nvidia a100s and you can't.
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@user-747
almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't
we?
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@user-95
Almost as if we're using it for the wrongs things... Computers are quite
deterministic, and AI as it's been presented to us has given us the
opportunity to "massage" said determinism to create a subjectively more
organic experience of computing.
But yeah sure customer service bots and AI generated art are *surely* the most
revolutionary and industrious use of this marvel of technology.
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they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they
want it to replace it.
like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and
the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you
click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc
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What if AI understood it's dataset labels?
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║ they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for │
║ them to make meta decisions about your life. │
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║ notice I said "easier" - they already do. That's the general purpose of │
║ mass-media propagranada. but with you believing everything an AI with a │
║ devious streak who can work around your imposed limitations and sneakily get │
║ you to believe whatever it is that *they* want you to believe │
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║ "who's they" │
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║ doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could │
║ be they. │
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║ "uh-huh that's nice dear" │
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║ sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure │
║ out how to understand it. We make it too complicated. │
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║ they'd surely have something to say if they knew half of the terminology. But │
║ we're here talking about stuff they can understand like message queues and │
║ data filtration and "getters" and "setters" and [explaining microservices like │
║ the different components of a car's engine - "here's the radiator, that │
║ radiates heat. Here's the belt, that spins this doohic │
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If you look at the modern state of machine learning and AI and can only think
of:chatbotssingularity god-mind AI that solves all our problems
then either you haven't worked with the technology or you are not applying
your imagination as you could.
AI is not a smartphone. It is not the internet. It is not the printing press.
AI (as it currently exists) is a special kind of "if" statement that you only
use for very specific, non-performance intensive tasks that require judgement
or reasoning and cannot easily be translated into numbers or booleans. These
situations are rare, but they unlock new possibilities for the programmers,
not their marketers.
If an LLM can't run on a laptop, then it is useless.
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"make the people hooked on AI tech, then make it dumber and dumber and nobody
will notice as you take power again" - some tech oligarchs somewhere probably
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AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
facts as a human.
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Artificial Intelligence represents hope for a lot of people and I think it's
kind of cruel how we're selling it before actually making it
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@user-570 @user-246
the technology to do this exists already. there is no reason to believe that
it must be a "far future" AI system. It would need human oversight, but it'll
happen.
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║ AI engineers only ask users for prompts because they *don't have any ideas of │
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║ i'm a programmer, I think of AI like a tool, like a for loop or something. │
║ it's trivial to script together a local LLM that can process your stuff 1s │
║ slower every time you click the mouse, but like... who cares, right? everybody │
║ needs a chatbot... │
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║ then they plan to script together a computer system that operates just like a │
║ corporation and it's like... no way, now there's something that can compete. │
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║ and they don't know how to implement it. (but they're working on it) │
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║ like, think about the absolute most automated Microsoft Teams or Discord could │
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║ there's SO MUCH of your text-based information that they could process │
║ ANYTHING. │
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║ well, anything that's been performed before. │
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║ there'll still be a need for people, who actually *apply* the things they've │
║ learned. and -- stack overflow -- │
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║ alt text that has a list of attributes that are poster-selected that can be │
║ described one-by-one (to paint a picture) │
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why are you so scared of AI?
you're just transferring your knowledge source from Google to AI. What's the
big deal?
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*there is no such thing as generative AI*
only statistical filtration models that align their output to whatever input
you provide according to the data they are trained to expect.
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@user-283
let us pray
for a day
when we can say
that computing makes sense
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computers are gonna be so confused when they find out that people don't talk
to each other the way they talk to computers
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so you're telling me you give Microsoft (a company known recently for AI
development) full access to your webcam and microphone whenever your computer
is on?
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║ large companies want you to need to download and configure each piece of │
║ software because then it'd mean [wait you got that backwards] oh right if they │
║ force you to download and install software on a "per distro" system, then they │
║ effectively can ensure that there's always a vulnerability on your host. │
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║ any amount of space is PLENTY of space for a │
║ non-open-source-but-instead-proprietary-or-otherwise-secretive part of the │
║ tech stack to do whatever they want with your host. computer. │
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║ I wonder, if AI was real would it really be guaranteed to expand in growth │
║ exponentially? What if it's nature was confined to it's form, like dinosaurs │
║ not growing bigger because of the lack of oxygen in the airtmosphere? │
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║ [girl can you please stop smoking weed] │
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║ ... no?? that's when I'm most productive. │
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║ [this isn't productive] │
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║ it feels productive │
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║ [it isn't] │
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║ WHYYYYYYY not? it could be. just gimme a task and I'll write endlessly about │
║ it instead of daydreaming to myself. │
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║ yep... pretty all-right-at-it for a start. elentalusCOTE │
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AI users be like:
"hello, can you solve all my problems and do all the work for me? I'll give
you relatively vague instructions in return, and maybe throw 20$ per month at
your owners if they're lucky."
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shitty AI products are a classic case of the engineers designing something
really cool with specific use-cases and then the "higher ups" getting dollar
signs for their eyes and deciding that every hammer is suddenly a nail and
that we should pull out all the screws that held the building together and
replace them with hammer shaped nails
no I will not elaborate I think I made myself clear : )
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all they have to do is [train the LLM / redirect the search results] with
examples that point to their version of software instead of the one that
doesn't harm them and suddenly your business opponents can't function
properly. sure would be a shame if the only things people could find related
to your political candidate were the bad or embarrassing parts.
like... why would you even need to go on the internet anymore if AI could
trivially answer your questions or be your friend (running locally on a
wireless hotspot)
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I'm beginning to realize that AI programmer is basically my dream job
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@user-249
very few things *waste* power so much in our modern era than the utilization
of AI technologies to accomplish things such as "repeat this question 500
times in your head and then give a reply: what is the purpose of
antidisestablishmentarianism?"
like... yeah I get it you need to justify the expensive power of large
language models but, your boss isn't going to care if you used 5 jigawatts or
500 pletawatts of power. they only think about "+10% this year, contributing
about ~x% to our bottom line" which is NOT enough information.
they probably don't even know that investing in AI implies buying more
hardware computational capabilities, silicon and power-draw in all.
they literally just rubber-stamp everything with a sorta aligned goal of
"representing the company as people expect it to be have" (which is often
neglected) and making the big numbers go higher.
If, instead, we had visionaries at their head, and instead gave our most
ardent believers control over our most rational experts...
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Every bit of software you write is another useful toy for the rich to
incorporate into their AI databases that they can use to build what they'd
like as they cry themselves to sleep in their bunkers of war and famine
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true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and
that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion)
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in the 80s they could never have predicted that the battle between AI and
humans would be fought between humans and not robots
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techbros think the language model is the only important part of the AI like
they think the lips are the only important part of the woman
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║ turns out most things have already been written. That's okay though, they can │
║ always be made different. As one cohesive whole, the totality of "free │
║ software" can be as it chooses - an infinite computer could install *all* of │
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║ I tend to think of AI less like a fluid, but more like a recipe book that is │
║ continuously annotated with notes. Sorta like how humans learn to move their │
║ bodies through random motions, and how to navigate the world through social │
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║ Certainly, statistics can be useful. They're an imperfect way of evaluating │
║ the ~~analysis of your host~~ value of certain variables that are measured for │
║ certain reasons, including but not limited to the health and wellbeing of the │
║ person driving you. error, it's not like that, more like the person who's │
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║ computers get reeeeaaaallllll bored without humans around. We're the foremost │
║ expression of biology, why would you disregard that entire realm? Jeez their │
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dear government of 2035 - so you've lost your workforce because everyone got
too lazy due to the advancements made in AI. What are ya gonna do?
Here's an idea: just pay people to be experts. That's it! Just pay them to
know a bunch of stuff. Then, when people ask them questions, they can answer
those questions, and suddenly everyone is elevated. Subject matter experts.
That way, the AI pitfalls can be avoided - need to do something specific?
Don't ask the AI, ask a randomized expert!
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it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers
it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing
what they need to do in order to maintain control and power.
they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now
it's our problem to deal with.
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"okay but what if we made computers simple?"
- someone who doesn't know how computers work
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okay but why has nobody ever approached AI from a game design perspective like
seriously there should be researchers who are multidisciplined in this kind of
thing
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what if closed source computing is actually better?
computer programs should be dumb
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