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> Currently, Grok Web is not accessible in the United Kingdom or the countries of the European Union. We are diligently working to extend our services to these regions, prioritizing compliance with local data protection and privacy laws to ensure your information remains safely secure. I suppose you can take that to mean that people who do have access to the service should not expect much in terms of data protection.
Grok has gotten to the top of one benchmark: https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1891706264800936307 It's been said before but it is great news for consumers that there's so much competition in the LLM space. If it's hard for any one player to get daylight between them & the 2nd best alternative, hopefully that means one monopolistic firm isn't going to be sucking up all the value created by these things
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The only plausible explanation for the amount of resources poured into these language models is the hope that they somehow become the origin of AGI, which I think is pretty fanciful. I can feel the cold wind of the next AI winter coming on. It's inevitable. Computers are good at emulating intelligent behavior, people get excited that it's around the corner, and the hype boils over. This isn't the last time this will…
I think this still applies https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1888164523984470055 , LLMs now are useful but we need something else for AGI.
> Currently, Grok Web is not accessible in the United Kingdom or the countries of the European Union. We are diligently working to extend our services to these regions, prioritizing compliance with local data protection and privacy laws to ensure your information remains safely secure. I suppose you can take that to mean that people who do have access to the service should not expect much in terms of data protection.
The EU and UK are good for data protection?
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I'm very sorry if this isn't the case, but this message really feels LLM-written.
TBH I've recently felt like that for ~70% of 'top-level replies' in HN, which has slowly pushed me to other mediums (mastodon and discord). Could just be that the AI 'boom' brought a less programming-focused crowd into the site and those people lack the vocabulary that is constantly used here, who knows.
So rather than a lot of people adopting to write like how a LLM writes, the LLM writes as an average of how people been writing on the internet for a long time. So now when you start to recognize how "LLM prose" reads (which I'd say is "Internet General Prose"), you start to recognize how many people are writing in that style already.
Off topic, but just in case: is there a good reference on how people actually use LLMs on a daily basis ? All my attempts so far have been pretty underwhelming: * when I use chatbots as search engines, I'm very quickly disappointed by obvious hallucinations * I ended up disabling github copilot because it was just "auto-complete on steroids" at best, and "auto-complete on mushrooms" at worst * I rarely have use cases…
My wife has found ChatGPT extremely useful when dealing with her mother - who has bipolar and is obsessed with other people's health. I've got a terminal cancer diagnosis and handling my mother-in-law has been extremely difficult - nearly to the point of no longer having any communication with her. ChatGPT has a single conversation with all the back story and has put some useful points across when discussing how diff…
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finally, after two years of hype I have some usage for llm. we import descriptions of products from a seller. the problem is they are mental ( probably written by chatgpt :)) and are way too long. we need only small blurb. I put our style guide and given text to chatgpt and I get somehow reasonable description back. then editors still need to check it, but it's way less work.
I've seen a comic at the beginning of the LLM hype where: * in panel A, some guy is proud to use ChatGPT to turn 3 lines of text into a 10 pages report * in panel B, some girl is happy to use ChatGPT to summarize the 10 pages report into 3 lines It was meant to be _satire_, not the sales pitch ;)
> ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want
Grok has gotten to the top of one benchmark: https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1891706264800936307 It's been said before but it is great news for consumers that there's so much competition in the LLM space. If it's hard for any one player to get daylight between them & the 2nd best alternative, hopefully that means one monopolistic firm isn't going to be sucking up all the value created by these things
It's not good news when this competition comes at cost of a gigantic over inflated bubble, in which all the big players keep on sucking billions from investors without even having a business model. This hype will burst sooner than later and will trigger yet another global recession. This is untenable.
>This hype will burst sooner than later and will trigger yet another global recession.
It seems to small of bubble for global recession. I mean if it is a bubble at all, there is all the reasons to believe that the strategy will work with a significant probability.
Billions spent, one of the most powerful AI developed, and still no one competent enough to trim the 15 mins of waiting time filler at the beginning of the announcement video...