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Also, FWIW, I saw a bunch of demos of “token sequence learning” that did a lot of the applications that people have been so excited about with LLMs: producing text descriptions of …

There are a ton of different promising AI approaches explored by researchers. When I was at MIT in the early 2010s, when Deep Learning was just taking off, it was seen as one of a …

100% agree. You can even see it here on HN. When was the last time you saw a post where someone was excited about something they were actually _doing_ with and LLM? Mostly I see th…

The backlash is because an interesting technology that is not ready for prime time is being pushed out the door as the solution for every problem that exists. Any dev who’s been ar…

The sad truth is that a lot of senior corporate leaders, by the time they get promoted up to that level, if they ever had useful skills (in management or anything else) they’re usu…

Classic bubble talk “(mumbling behind my hand) yes it’s obvious that our current over-hyped product sucks but that should just make you even more hyped for our next product!” lol. …

I don’t like “confabulate” because has a euphemistically quality. I think most people hear it as a polite word for lying (no matter the dictionary definition). And this is a space …

You’re right about the model’s agency. To be precise I’d say that LLMs spew bullshit but that the bullshitters in that case are those who made the LLMs and claimed (in the worst pi…

At this point there’s a ton of research on how large and long-lasting the negative impacts of layoffs are on company effectiveness (especially in the area of innovation). Eg: https…

“Bullshit” is the _perfect_ term. Philosopher Harry Frankfurter wrote a book called On Bullshit where he defines the term as speech or writing intended to persuade without regard f…

You sound more like an out of touch executive or a recently-converted-Bitcoin-scammer than someone doing real work with this stuff (and yes I saw your top-voted post — as someone w…

+1. I also am increasingly thinking that this generation of AI is going to destroy social media with a flood of what Cory Doctorow calls “botshit”. Only difference is instead of wo…

I’m not at all worried about LLMs replacing even low-level engineers. We’ve been using Copilot and ChatGPT for awhile at work now and the most useful applications we’ve found are m…