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And it's cheap . Imagine I told you that you could have direct access to every PhD in the world and they would respond to all of your questions instantly... for $20/mo. Mind-blowing stuff and people still complain.
But it's not "direct access to every PhD in the world." You don't really believe that do you?
Or an alternate timeline where a different version of LLMs were invented.
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It gives me better answers on most things than my actual PhD friends do. So... yeah? The funny thing is, it's somewhat less useful for certain business stuff, because so much of that is private within corporations. But the stuff you learn in a PhD program is all published. And it's pretty phenomenal at distilling that information to answer any specific question. Multiple times a week I run into an obscure term or con…
"But the stuff you learn in a PhD program is all published." - What? This is the kind of misunderstanding of knowledge that AI boosters present that drives me insane. And last sentences conflate a PhD with a google search or even dictionary lookup. I mean, c'mon!
And the things I'm looking up just can't be found in Google or a dictionary. It's something defined in some random paper from 1987, further developed by someone else in 1998, that the author didn't cite.
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But it's not "direct access to every PhD in the world." You don't really believe that do you?
It gives me better answers on most things than my actual PhD friends do. So... yeah? The funny thing is, it's somewhat less useful for certain business stuff, because so much of that is private within corporations. But the stuff you learn in a PhD program is all published. And it's pretty phenomenal at distilling that information to answer any specific question. Multiple times a week I run into an obscure term or con…
This is not a guarantee that the text it produces is a correct explanation of the thing you are asking about. It’s a mental trick like a psychic reading tea leaves.
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> The spherical-cow "ideal" 100% efficient perfect marketing campaign/tactic literally hypnotizes you into dropping all your money on an arbitrary good or service. It is isomorphic to somebody mugging you. I like the quote and despise advertising of any kind for mostly the same reason, but you could apply this logic to any kind of business and it starts to fall apart. > The spherical-cow "ideal" 100% efficient perfec…
This is a good point. You could equally well argue that the spherical cow “ideal” 100% marketing shows you exactly the right product right as you need it. And then shuts the hell up!
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Won’t argue with it being overdone, but it’s in reference to Ginsberg. Not necessarily complimentary. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
Gingsberg stole it from Yeats — “the best lack all conviction…” / “the best minds of my generation…” — many similar verses, e.g., “what rough beast…” / “what sphinx of cement…” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...
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The article is clearly talking specifically about AI, you’re the one generalising it. > A decommissioned nuclear power station required to power it. How many tech hysterias fit that?
If it's decommissioned it doesn't provide any power does it?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/20/three-mi...
What the heck did you think that line meant? How would a reactor not producing power be used to power anything?
But even if it were unable to provide any power, which would have made absolutely no sense, it still wouldn’t have supported your point. It’s obvious the article is talking about the specific case of AI and not tech hysterias in general.
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It gives me better answers on most things than my actual PhD friends do. So... yeah? The funny thing is, it's somewhat less useful for certain business stuff, because so much of that is private within corporations. But the stuff you learn in a PhD program is all published. And it's pretty phenomenal at distilling that information to answer any specific question. Multiple times a week I run into an obscure term or con…
The AI is optimized for producing text that sounds like it makes sense and is helpful. This is not a guarantee that the text it produces is a correct explanation of the thing you are asking about. It’s a mental trick like a psychic reading tea leaves.
It's generally pretty obvious if the explanation makes sense. And you can locate the original paper(s) as well to verify.
And you know what? My PhD friends get things wrong all the time too. I need to verify what they say as well.
"This is not a guarantee"? You're right. Nothing is a guarantee, but a lot of things are awfully helpful.
> The best minds of my generation I’m tired of that line. I remember first seeing it on “the best minds of our generation being employed to sell you ads”. Making a computer go brrr doesn’t qualify anyone for a “best mind”. I’d hope a “best mind” would be, above all, empathetic. Concerned about the well being of their fellow humans. Philosophical about the state of the world. Patient. Curious. Wise and not just smart.…
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I'm actually convinced that "marketing", as such, can be completely orthogonal to profit altogether. Any sort of communication of a novel thing would fall under this banner, but I learn about new FOSS projects on here every day because the maintainers and developers are willing to 'advertise' them to me.
Marketing is so rarely for a "novel" thing. The biggest spender is CocaCola, how much do we still need to know about them?