Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
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Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
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Re: Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
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#3It doesn’t need to be AGI to be dangerous. As argument, just consider how the next elections will be. GPT is at least a cannon for fake news. A fake News machine gun
Re: Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
#4It's crazy to think Sequoia was started by Valentine who invested in so many iconic companies.
And now just look at Sequoia. The bottom of the barrel with the worst takes in technology. How much a company can fall.
Re: Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
#5me and the bros have already fully pivoted
Re: Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
#6The first third of the article is kinda polemic, it won't really convince anyone needing convincing.
This however I thought was the substance of it:
> The VCs’ actual use case for AI is treating workers badly.
> The Writer’s Guild of America, a labor union representing writers for TV and film in the US, is on strike for better pay and conditions. One of the reasons is that studio executives are using the threat of AI against them. Writers think the plan is to get a chatbot to generate a low-quality script, which the writers are then paid less in worse conditions to fix. [Guardian]
> Executives at the National Eating Disorders Association replaced hotline workers with a chatbot four days after the workers unionized. “This is about union busting, plain and simple,” said one helpline associate. The bot then gave wrong and damaging advice to users of the service: “Every single thing Tessa suggested were things that led to the development of my eating disorder.” The service has backtracked on using the chatbot. [Vice; Labor Notes; Vice; Daily Dot]
> Digital blackface: instead of actually hiring black models, Levi’s thought it would be a great idea to take white models and alter the images to look like black people. Levi’s claimed it would increase diversity if they faked the diversity. One agency tried using AI to synthesize a suitably stereotypical “Black voice” instead of hiring an actual black voice actor. [Business Insider, archive]
Re: Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
#7>People’s susceptibility to anthropomorphizing an even slightly convincing computer program has been known since ELIZA, one of the first chatbots, in 1966. It’s called the ELIZA effect.
I'm tired of these arguments. Very very few people are anthropomorphizing chatgpt.. very few. The majority of people both technical and non technical who have played with chatGPT in a non trivial way are aware of the chatbots limitations. It's like recognizing a crazy person on the street. Humans are well equipped for that.
This argument characterizes the average person as some kind of stupid buffoon as if he/she can't tell chatGPT really screws shit up. Sure there are a few gullible outliers but as a generality his claim is simply completely false. Pretty much everyone and I mean everyone is aware about the limitations of LLMs.
This is a weak and repeated trope that's being regurgitated as if the critics are LLMs themselves.
Let me specify exactly what's going on. People who are afraid of/support AI are more speaking to the potential of AI. Why? Because just as much as this thing hallucinates about half the time it answers a complex question with an equally complex and correct answer and that answer in isolation is often indistinguishable or even at times superior to a humans answer.
Yes we know it hallucinates and forgets shit. This is obvious, no need to readdress an obvious weakness that everyone is aware about. If critics want to have a real discussion then they seriously need to address the actual strengths and phenomenons of LLMs instead of repeatedly highlighting the obvious weaknesses.
Because while we have somewhat of an explanation for the hallucinations we currently don't know how chatGPT was able to do something like this:
https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/
Read to the end of you haven't seen this. The ending is what is quite unexplainable by experts. You can't just trivialize that entire post as if it was just a statistical phenomenon. There's obviously an alternative angle here.
Re: Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
#8It doesn’t need to be AGI to be dangerous. As argument, just consider how the next elections will be. GPT is at least a cannon for fake news. A fake News machine gun
I agree that this article leans too much into "antihype" and dismisses the danger. The criticism that AI safety regulations are a pretty obvious attempt to erect a regulatory moat is an important one however.
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#9Yeah QQQ is up 10% and BTC down 10% from 2 month ago. Going to get worse for Bitcoin and crypto overall. Bitcoin does not generate profits, does not benefit from AI hype/boom, does not hedge inflation. It has no upside, only downside.
Re: Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
#10>People’s susceptibility to anthropomorphizing an even slightly convincing computer program has been known since ELIZA, one of the first chatbots, in 1966. It’s called the ELIZA effect. I'm tired of these arguments. Very very few people are anthropomorphizing chatgpt.. very few. The majority of people both technical and non technical who have played with chatGPT in a non trivial way are aware of the chatbots limitati…
Wrong. Too many people do anthropomorphize LLMs. And few people actually understand how LLMs work, or how to detect errors and hallucinations. Calling LLM autocomplete "AI" deliberately conflates the tech with sci-fi tropes that many people already confuse with reality. Numerous examples, from ELIZA to Watson, internet-based scams and frauds, full self-driving, to all of crypto demonstrate human credulity and gullibility, magnified if people think they will either profit or lose financially.
The technology behind LLMs probably does have some interesting and valuable applications. But look at the hype and follow the money with a skeptical eye. If so-called AI does or will soon deliver real benefits then why all of the hype around it? Show, don't tell, and especially don't tell stories based on possible future advances or breakthroughs.
Future editions of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds will have long chapters about crypto and AI. If you think most people understand the tech and its limitations and don't act according to gullibility, ignorance, and greed that book should disabuse you.