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Have you used the Google search engine in the past couple years? You’re painting a dichotomy that doesn’t exist and hasn’t for a good while. Edit: I missed your final paragraph. I …

That doesn’t matter very much for the free tier market though. The game is to have something useable that is actually used , and that can be offered at sustainable margins. Google …

Still, to get results from that you need someone who can create a decent finetune. That might not be realistic, but it very well could be realistic to have someone optimize some pr…

Ironically, or sadly (or perhaps a mixture of these+), this statement was absolutely informed (hopefully not inspired) by an LLM.

Best option by what metric? For which enterprises. I say this having worked at an “enterprise” where this was not a good option. For (lack of) talent/expertise, budget, infrastruct…

So the second option then.

That’s because a significant portion of the work and spending going on at frontier labs is generating new, more curated data, in select domains like software engineering and now bi…

Hopefully none of those hardened criminals know that a circular saw is the fastest way by far to cut through posts!

That sounds exhausting. Do things because they’re right or because you want to. Rules are fake (being a little dramatic there, but the point stands - rules create plenty of downsid…

Maybe because people still want to eat food. The culture of trying to re-engineer life is not it.

> It's a spiritual belief. Yes. Thats part of human reality. Denying it is counterproductive at best.

Sci-fi is not reality.

No. That is not how AI works. It’s built by people, contrary to some of the more woo-ey hype. There’s no “agency”, or personal desires, or person to desire anything.

Thats some silly intellectualism, people are conscious and machines aren’t. We don’t need precise definitions or scientific rigor to know things.

LLMs are not conscious.

If you do any sort of homelabbing, it’s wonderful for making access from different machines easy and portable. Especially since you can leave it on and (unless you set an exit node…

When I wrote that I had in mind the idea of “mixed race” people. In the US it is very common for someone to identify as half black and half white, or one quarter Irish and three qu…

Yet, the models are objects built by humans. Any and all responsibility inevitably falls on the humans that built something with those flaws, and/or allowed them to exercise said f…

That’s very anthropomorphized language. It’s still a program operating under the constraints of the programmer. So agreed, don’t blame the AI, but it’s not clear at all that it’s e…

Well yeah, thats kind of what race is. It’s something you’re born with, and it’s not fuzzy. It can be nuanced, thats different. How it’s regarded is a separate issue, and that has …

Four Loko had to take the caffeine out across the US years ago. Now it’s just 8 standard drinks in a tall boy for $4 - still very much a problem but no caffeine.

That was a good example of their point, thank you!

This might not work for your current lifestyle (if you need to be able to properly use your brain for any meaningful portion of the day), but an effective method, at least for peop…

There are some vague notions about consciousness emerging from complexity that some people may advance as a nuance to your point, although that just makes rocks “minimally consciou…

It took 6 years to get from Attention Is All You Need to a consumer product. Up until ChatGPT’s release, LLMs were obscure and really were just fancier autocomplete. Deepmind was l…