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Spend less time on social media, and the internet in general
But I /love/ the Internet, I've been here since the very beginning. It's like seeing your home town get run down and turned into a dumpster.
You've been using the Internet since the 1970s?
I’m sure someone else will make another post just like the OPs in a few years wishing for days gone by before .
There is a complete trifercation of ML: 1. ML Engineers: the high priests, with access to 10K GPU hours, designing novel Transformer architectures using Tensorflow / PyTorch / JAX. 2. Data Scientists: conducting SFT on pre-trained models via the HuggingFace APIs + MLOps & model optimization (eg via TensorRT). 3. GenAI devs: building LangChain orchestrations and RAG prompt flows using off the shelf LLMs commoditized behind APIs - no stats or linear algebra required.
Too many are jumping on this GenAI bandwagon, which will result in a massive hype-cycle trough of dissalusionment and potential VC AI winter.
Furthermore, GenAI is a local maxima on the path to true AGI. COT / REACT heuristics lack the integrated differential aproach of Hybrid AI, ignoring everything previous generations of researchers focused on: problem solving, planning, probabilistic logic, reasoning etc. For true AGI, we need some focus on: 1. concept representation. 2. goal formation. 3. code introspection and self-modification. GenAI is a big distraction from that kind of R&D.
There's little hope for the future.
A year from now you will not know if something is AI or not in nearly all cases. "Filtering" is therefore a fruitless endeavor, there are _entire training methods_ (GAN) specifically designed to bypass any conceivable filtering. Hating generative AI is like pissing into the wind, you'll just get all wet. The most constructive way to proceed from here is to make it work for you.
There are so many things you could say that about, and we actually did make real progress as a society. Go back ~80 years, and it would seem ludicrous in the extreme that we wouldn't always have chain-smokers in every bar, restaurant, apartment building, etc. And yet society fought back against Big Tobacco. If I try to walk into my local bar and light a cig, I'll be tossed out. Rivers that were once poisonous are now…
Everything changes, nothing is forever. It's a hard truth, but the more capable you are of accepting and rolling with it, the better your life will be. I've heard it said that the tagline for the theory of evolution should really be "survival of the most adaptable " , and I think that applies at every level, from the species, to the culture, to the subculture, to the family, and finally, the individual. If the intern…
> I've heard it said that the tagline for the theory of evolution should really be "survival of the most adaptable" That is the tagline. In the phrase, "survival of the fittest," "fittest" means "most adaptable," at least according to the Merriam Webster English dictionary.
The adaptability of an organism might be an important fitness factor, or it might not. There are organisms which have survived largely unchanged for millions of years.
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> I've heard it said that the tagline for the theory of evolution should really be "survival of the most adaptable" That is the tagline. In the phrase, "survival of the fittest," "fittest" means "most adaptable," at least according to the Merriam Webster English dictionary.
I don't think that is what was meant by the phrase. Ultimately it refers to how natural selection works. The adaptability of an organism might be an important fitness factor, or it might not. There are organisms which have survived largely unchanged for millions of years.
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I don't think that is what was meant by the phrase. Ultimately it refers to how natural selection works. The adaptability of an organism might be an important fitness factor, or it might not. There are organisms which have survived largely unchanged for millions of years.
Perhaps because they were lucky? What they needed was available for millions of years. Note the survivorship bias there. I am sure you already know it, so please excuse me pointing out this obvious thing.
I haven't bought a new phone. I was thinking about it but, at the end of the day, what I want is a phone that's my tool, not my new best friend.
Don't get me wrong - I've got nothing against AI. I love phone apps/functionality that will, for instance, allow me to point my camera and click, then show me a lovely hi-res, non-blurry image of the people/scene I want to capture. Getting rid of the shake in my short video clips will, I'm sure, be fantastic! But don't tell me that this was achieved with AI - just go do it in the background and leave me in peace.
But I don't need a phone that boasts about its capabilities. And I don't need a phone that will nag me to do this thing or that thing to improve my life experiences. I've got a perfectly serviceable mother who's more than happy to do that sort of nagging!
I have a 3 year old Samsung mobile. Over the past few months Samsung have been bombarding me with targeted ads and emails begging me to upgrade to their new-shiny latest-greatest mobile. Much of their effort leads on all of the wonders that the new AI capabilities they've added to the phone would bring to my life. I haven't bought a new phone. I was thinking about it but, at the end of the day, what I want is a phone…
added to my quote book.