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0 pointsjohnnyanmac1y ago0 comments

And the same was said with the last fad when Blockcbain was all investors wanted to hear about ("Big Data" I suppose). It's all a pattern.

It's a legal nightmare in my domain as of now, so I'll make sure the Sam Breaker-Friends are weeded out. If it's really all the hype it won't be going anywhere in 5 years.

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llm_trw1y ago· 3 in thread

It's been 5 years since GPT2. I'm really struggling to understand the amount of negativity towards the biggest breakthrough in computing since the WWW.

johnnyanmacOP1y ago

If you're unaware of the general mood towards big tech in the 2020's, the downward trend of the economy, extreme speculation in all the tech sector over AI (which again, is not new), and the dozens of ethical quandries towards the methods of how LLMs obtain their data set, then yes. I can see why you're struggling to understand. There's so much literature on each point that I will only implore you to research these things on your own time if you care to.

In a purely technical vacuum though: it is truly amazing tech. I will give it that. Although it both excites and alarms me that apparently the power output predicted to properly leverage this at scale is having tech companies consider an investment in nuclear power.

Yes it's wonderful that AI will solve global warming as a side effect.

johnnyanmacOP1y ago

This is kind of why I'm skeptical of AI. When supposed tech experts are wearing rose tinted lens and missing the red flags, it's either because they want to wear them or because their livelihood depends on wearing them.

I won't blame people for that latter, I'd love a good quick way out of traditional work as well (gives me more time to hack on stuff without money troubles). But it's not a good model for curiosity and scrutiny. Again, I'll wait it out. Take care.

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