I built letsbuild.ai over the weekend. This is a link site dedicated to AI and can be edited via Github.
There is well over 50 links already as a start. If you got interesting AI related links/ categories, would welcome any PR.
AI seems to be the ultimate example of "shoot first, ask questions later". We have no idea how AI will effect society, the marginal benefits to people are near-zero (measred in terms of the difference before any adoption to widespread adoption, not incremental intermediate stages), and most of the effects will likely be disastrous (much more efficient propaganda, much more efficient drug-in-the-form-of-media production to distract us from the true ills of the world to prevent a true revolution for good, and a huge wealth concentration towards tech companies).
This wanton development of AI seems exceptionally reckless...
You know, you say this, but we had massive changes after personal computers and the Internet and the iPhone became a thing, and no studies to my knowledge were produced before any of these things were introduced. All of the predicted effects were only positive, because only good actors were involved in creating them, but as we now know, a lot of downsides also resulted, mainly because of bad actors and perverse incentives and simple human psychology.
The progress of the last 40 years seems to be a validation of "Be careful what you wish for"
I used to bike 5 miles to a library in the 80's (as a teen) in order to learn anything. Now it's all on a device in my pocket that I might have killed for were it available then. But of course, it's not just the phone, it's the ubiquitous cell network, the (wired) Internet, display/memory/cpu tech and everything else that all makes it possible. Can I spend "too much time" on my phone? Sure, but I'm also hyper-aware of that tendency now. I've learned to cope with the downsides, while gaining the advantages.
I tend to believe that tech becomes available when we're ready for it, and that the positives always outweigh the negatives. (I'm still on the fence here regarding arms.)
How do you personally distinguish between "this is an apocalyptic mistake" and "this is a step in the right direction" ?
Good question. The first step is to analyze each technology individually, rather than usual analogies :)
This is exactly what has happened with humanity.
I think that at the end of the day, the dinos will get resurrected. What you can decide is what part you want of it.
Or, you can build a revolution to take it down...
Suppose we had this AI at the dawn of internet, we would have google using this tech to search internet back then. We would have saved countless hours of search to fix a bug.
AI is having an Einstein in our pocket. Any one who had to develop/research on any topic, he has an Einstein level assistance ready to help you out. We are just at the dawn of the sci-fi era we always have imagined for. And AI will be our companion in this fast changing world: "Jarvis explain me how that thing works" , and you get somewhat of an idea about any new or complex subject, which otherwise would have taken days to comprehend.
The courses:
https://lazyprogrammer.me/deep-learning-courses/
The order in which to take the courses:
https://deeplearningcourses.com/course_order
A video summary:
Tangential question I am not sure where else to ask: Would it be possible to train AI at home on a book? I was thinking about how sometimes I start reading a book and then get distracted for a month or two. Summarizing chapters and characters up to a point in the book sounds like a good fit for GPT AI. I could possibly find and extract PDF or epub of the current book I am reading and I have RTX 4080 at home I am barely using.
Edit: Everything is local. This is not training, it takes a standard LLM and gives it extra context based on what text the tool finds in the vector DB related to the topic.
Is this a need people have? I would use letsbuild.ai to discover projects and check their homepage/documentation, but once I know a given project I know where to find its docs (or search for "<project> docs" on Google).
