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Generative AI's Act Two

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Re: Generative AI's Act Two

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Just a bunch of hype marketing. I didn't read anything of real substance, granted I didn't read the whole thing because it seemed pointless.

Yea I gave up. Ironically it reads like it's (at least partially) AI generated. Long winded and boring without getting to the damn point.

VCs writing shallow thought leadership pieces has become too common. They don't seem to yet realize everyone has figured it out for what it is - self serving.

Re: Generative AI's Act Two

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can learn all you want, but ai is a software, not a “we”.

AI is a software tool used by a user. Is a (human) user not allowed to learn all they want by using whatever helper tools they want?

Is using uTorrent also qualify ? Come on, I'm downloading only for educational purposes.

Re: Generative AI's Act Two

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Classic Sequoia piece: VCs sharing lengthy, jargon-filled thoughts specific to their worldview (supplemented with narrowly relevant charts!) to imply that they have a grand unifying vision.

Interesting that Sonya and Pat credited GPT-4 as an author; they could've used it to make things concise!

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The moment that generative AI became something crazy for me was when I said "holy shit, maybe Blake Lemoine was right". Lemoine was the Google engineer who made a big fuss saying that Google had a sentient AI in development and he felt there were ethical issues to consider. And at the time we all sort of chuckled- of course Google doesn't have a true AGI in there. No one can do that. And it wasn't much later I had my…

Isn't the takeaway : "holy shit, these things are advanced enough to make people like Blake Lemoine believe they are sentient?"

Or "holy shit, we don't know enough about sentience to even begin to know whether something has it, other than humans, because we've gotten used to assuming that all human minds operate similarly to our own and experience things similarly to how we do."

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> Four decades of the internet (accelerated by COVID) has given us trillions of tokens’ worth of training data. Yeah four decades of stolen intellectual property posted by people on the internet in good will for the world to see, only to have it stolen and monetised by these folks. Wondering, once the good content dies out how will you “train” your “ai”?

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Re: Generative AI's Act Two

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“Four decades of the internet (accelerated by COVID) has given us trillions of tokens’ worth of training data.”

What’s up with the “accelerated by COVID”? It feels completely out of place. Would we have not had enough training data if COVID didn’t happen? Blessings in disguise, I guess.

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea I gave up. Ironically it reads like it's (at least partially) AI generated. Long winded and boring without getting to the damn point.

VCs writing shallow thought leadership pieces has become too common. They don't seem to yet realize everyone has figured it out for what it is - self serving.

It's a very biased take too, as if it's already clear modern AI is on the level of the internet. If they believe this honestly, I'd say they are in a bubble.

Modern AI is impressive, sure, but comparing it to the invention of the internet itself? It's too early to come to such conclusions imo.

Re: Generative AI's Act Two

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post #19

Just a bunch of hype marketing. I didn't read anything of real substance, granted I didn't read the whole thing because it seemed pointless.

Just remember that Sequoia deleted their Sam Bankman-Fried puff piece.

Have a web archive link? I haven't read it

Re: Generative AI's Act Two

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post #25

The moment that generative AI became something crazy for me was when I said "holy shit, maybe Blake Lemoine was right". Lemoine was the Google engineer who made a big fuss saying that Google had a sentient AI in development and he felt there were ethical issues to consider. And at the time we all sort of chuckled- of course Google doesn't have a true AGI in there. No one can do that. And it wasn't much later I had my…

The counterpoint to this is always "models work with numerical vectors and we translate those to/from words" These things feel sentient because they talk like us, but if I told you that I have a machine that takes 1 20k-dimensional vector and turns it into another meaningful 20k-dimensional vector, you definitely wouldn't call that sentience.

What if I told you I have a machine that takes 1 20k-dimensional vector and turns it into another meaningful 20k-dimensional vector, but the machine is made of a bunch of proteins and fats and liquids and gels? Would you be willing to call it sentient now?
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