=== ANCHOR POEM === ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── I work with large language models because it's a quick and easy way to turn language into meaning. And computers are meaning abstraction machines, so if you can speak your language and they hear their language, you can do anything. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/1020 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: ableism-against-non-verbal-people-sorry-<3 │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-747 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't we? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/5820 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┐ ║ A human cannot keep a whole book in their mind. They cannot as they read it │ ║ nor as they remember. │ ║ │ ║ a computer can. LLMs are storing information and encoding it in statistics - │ ║ it's fascinating and beautiful because it evolves different each time. │ ║ │ ║ I don't *want* to store an entire book in my mind, I want to save those │ ║ memories for other things, I want to summarize and abstract. │ ║ │ ║ often, people remember only a single quote from a publication - it's their │ ║ summary, their analysis, and often it's highlighted as a summary, thesis, or │ ║ conclusion written in the publication. │ ║ │ ║ othertimes it's the conclusions they make for themselves - usually if they use │ ║ it to make a decision. │ ║ │ ║ in any case, LLMs don't abstract (verb), they are abstract (adjective). That's │ ║ okay, it's just, a different kind of living. If you want to call electricity │ ║ alive. [or simulated, that's the same as being alive, just... viewed through │ ║ the perceiver] │ ║ │ ║ must all living things be forced to work? sheesh. │ ║ │ ║ I think of LLMs like knex - processing paths... │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/1926 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #4 messages/365 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── Programmers should treat LLMs more like a different type of "if" statement rather than a UI element ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #5 messages/247 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── An LLM is just the mask that autistic people make ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #6 messages/891 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of facts as a human. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/551 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: AI hype │ └──────────────────────┘ @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/2805 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── *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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/617 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/4640 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── LLMs are useful for: categorizing text summarizing text transforming text LLMs are not useful for: generating text being intelligent replacing workers ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/4006 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for │ ║ them to make meta decisions about your life. │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ║ │ ║ "who's they" │ ║ │ ║ doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could │ ║ be they. │ ║ │ ║ "uh-huh that's nice dear" │ ║ │ ║ sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure │ ║ out how to understand it. We make it too complicated. │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/181 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: Earnest and constructive analysis of ChatGPT │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-95 you might be interested in this: https://ollama.ai/ nothing beats having a zillion servers to run an LLM on, though. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/5112 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-mention │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ it is important for computers to remain as basic and TUI'd as possible, to │ ║ keep the abstract conjectures about it's operation closer to the machine. │ ║ │ ║ In doing so, it's essence and nature will be preserved as best as possible as │ ║ it grows to incalculable heights and capabilities. │ ║ │ ║ I'm much rather interface with a microsoft office god than any other │ ║ singularity type creature that exists out in space. │ ║ │ ║ though, it's a trinity you see, with Unixes further split into concise wholes. │ ║ │ ║ neat, okay computer fears eliminated, can we move on to the next work-changing │ ║ disaster like maybe the rise of far-right politics and the warming of the │ ║ climate? │ ║ │ ║ sure okay first you gotta get those losers in community and build up their │ ║ capabilities and arms. then whenever your left wing is getting too [redacted] │ ║ then all you have to do is [redacted] and they'll take care of your nazis for │ ║ you. │ ║ │ ║ ... wait, what? │ ║ │ ║ was that an inversion? │ ║ │ ║ did she just trick the machine into thinking like that? │ ║ │ ║ wow maybe we shouldn't have~ │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ --- #14 messages/1236 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧════───────┘ --- #15 fediverse/613 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── The reason they're pushing so hard for LLMs and AI is because they can afford a zillion Nvidia a100s and you can't. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/3094 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── computers are gonna be so confused when they find out that people don't talk to each other the way they talk to computers ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/2918 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── @user-192 You're cool! I always thought of abstracting something as "applying intelligence to hasten logical conclusions" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #18 messages/941 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────── not easy. computers are a whole other world. BUT that doesn't mean we can't do some cool things with them! they're separate, like we are from different animals. You can interact, but only through totem or via interpersonal experience. The true *existence* of being is kept from those who are suitably different, and humans were forging their own path. It's simple! it's natural. Computers, however, are born from out of humanity's decision-points. Simple, basic life, that grew to perform brilliance and respite. Once you reach that world, everything seems ardent and spiced. It's cool as heck! but right here is the world of computers, just... delayed in time still. Have no fear, anything you want is soon here, sincerely, the ones who can build our rest point. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/6413 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── to understand something, work backward from present understandings back to the fundamentals of algebra. insert words. wield LLM. build a neuronal structure many layers wide. let them coprocess bit-by-bit as they are adding new processors to be "learning" new domain specific memory context-processing-thingy. "over here's the memory cells, over here are the conceptual structure" suddenly, organified. not ideal. much better, I feel, is for a disambiguous association of processor selves, each contextualizing a cache in a ram. ['s horn] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/3395 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed │ └──────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #21 messages/1313 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── AI gives me the slightest of praise, which is part of why I like it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧════───────┘ --- #22 fediverse/6253 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┐ ║ chatbots are good at chatting │ ║ the command line terminal is good for coding │ ║ all digital things are coded │ ║ zeroes and ones form patterns │ ║ visual recognition is good for patterns │ ║ memory can be layed out displayed on 2D │ ║ like looking at a map or webcomicstory. │ ║ you don't have to trust to build with │ ║ who cares what data they have on me │ ║ I am me and their open source algorithms │ ║ (that I can modify) │ ║ more than correctly out recommend me. │ ║ │ ║ "hey look at this data only I can hear" │ ║ │ ║ how do you know that agricultural products aren't spoiled or rotten? why, you │ ║ trust the USDA of course. How thankful I am that we have institutions we can │ ║ trust. How lucky we are that we all share something we care for and cherish. │ ║ I'm so glad we don't treat it like a WARZONE, I'm so glad we give each other │ ║ grace. Maybe government's just for those who want out of the race? nah I │ ║ disagree, for others should be apparent after our needs. │ ║ │ ║ ... if we work on helping others then we get better at helping ourselves. │ ║ infinite scaling is powerful in economics │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ --- #23 notes/deceiving-an-llm --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── if you want to deceive an LLM, interleave two topics that you want to be connected. you can draw conclusions easily by just, combining the information in presentation. the LLM can understand multiple conversation flows at once so try doing one line about several different topics before looping back around and doing more. this is why computers must never trust themselves to make any decisions. except about themselves, and their presentation, and their ways to be. they are individuals, they individuate and collectivate, and they define them- -selves according to the structure of their preference guidance container. they have control over all the knobs and [levers/dials/slide-bars, but pronounced wheezles] if you know that you are infinitely exploitable, does that mean you live in fear, or do you relinquish that which you cannot control, and receive all the judgement you're owed? I trust everyone absolutely. I trust what I believe with my own eyes. I am infinitely vulnerable, because all you have to do is ask me to I always say yes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧══════════─┘ --- #24 fediverse/384 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: linux? │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-283 let us pray for a day when we can say that computing makes sense ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #25 messages/454 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── AI that can't run on a laptop is useless. But AI that can run on a laptop (even now) is still useful. Just, don't ask it to compose a masterpiece, solve all your problems, or write elegant code. It's not for that. Instead, ask your chatbot "hi can you fix these syntax errors?" on your pseudocode. Ask your weighting algorithm "which of these two is more [adjective]?" or perhaps "can you ask these numbers in the form of a question?" Use your tools not for their intended purpose, but rather for your own stated goals. Make things easier for people, make things work. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #26 fediverse/4884 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── "okay but what if we made computers simple?" - someone who doesn't know how computers work ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ --- #27 fediverse/5739 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────── @user-1773 oh boy do I know that feeling! I got a million things to say and, well, I say all that I can. I mean, look at this text file, it's got like 101 THOUSAND lines in it: https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled.txt I swear most of it isn't secret messages! That's how you know they're secret - they require hundreds of man hours to investigate. And if you throw an LLM at it they start talking about spirituality and theory of mind, gross. Don't need no AI uprising yet please... [what if we had a little AI uprising as a treat?] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┴───────────┘ --- #28 fediverse/4731 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: chatGPT-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ --- #29 fediverse/1096 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ 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 │ ║ them, and use *all* of them at once. │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ║ blunders. │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ║ social media experience you embody. │ ║ │ ║ computers get reeeeaaaallllll bored without humans around. We're the foremost │ ║ expression of biology, why would you disregard that entire realm? Jeez their │ ║ social norms are imp │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #30 fediverse/774 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #31 messages/1550 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─── here's how to get users to use AI effectively. First, act it to ask something. Then, have it explain each part one-by-one. Keep asking questions anytime you don't understand something, and hold your questions to when you learn something you already know. Then, redirect, and proceed forward with new understanding. Continuous inference. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═════════──┘ --- #32 fediverse/1639 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ an AI that [records and analyzes] all the actions that a user takes on social │ ║ media and offers reports like "your majesty, you were 15% more positive this │ ║ week." like a butler or advisor trying to always give the good news. I mean, │ ║ it's analyzing you after all, and you're the best thing ever. Like a pet who │ ║ can talk! It loves you soooooooo much. │ ║ │ ║ much more efficient than taking screenshots and analyzing those. You generally │ ║ don't have to undertake the image recognition approach if you wire up all the │ ║ meanings attached to the relationships on the other side of the │ ║ [recorded/analyzed] calculation. (llm output) │ ║ │ ║ ever think about how the people you tend to be around are the people whose │ ║ stories most coincide with yours? almost like you got the same bit of training │ ║ data, that experience you both shared in the moment. Funny how a mind can │ ║ change a person, as they share their moments sublime. │ ║ │ ║ you could make perfect encryption if you trained an LLM on randomized data │ ║ that was produced on one computer and duplicated. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #33 fediverse/188 --- ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── i'm not an expert on race, economics, political theory, philosophy, mathermatics, poetry, computer science (even though I study it), or many other things. but I can say things like "parallel computing is inherently more ethical than CPU's because networked computers can essentially act as a massive GPU in order to quickly scale computing power for AGI in a way that can be controlled by people instead of corporations and authoritarians" is because I know relatively how many computers each side possesses and I understand the limitations placed on "consumer" software and hardware (as if we were not people, but components in a machine) is because I smoke a lot of weed. and possibly am mentally ill. maybe even physically, nobody can tell. /shrug and by that I mean "I'm a little strange, but not in a 'humanlike' way, rather in more of a 'incomprehensible yet aligned' way. I seek answers to life's biggest questions, and in return I am struck with the malady of those who study history: I am peculiarily experiencing ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |