There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going
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#2I'll just put the Willy Wonka tunnel clip here - https://youtu.be/Xkg7dp1QY9k
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#3It’s crazy. Literally the only valid thing you can say about LLM use is “in the hands of an experienced person LLMs can be a force multiplier”.
But no, we have to replace entire companies with it. All the problems of LLMs stem from inexperienced people using it (by inexperienced I mean not skilled in the domain in which the LLM is being applied).
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#4I will argue that we are going forward - for better or for worse. In my humble opinion, taking into account the sad state of the world today, any change is welcomed.
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#5What's wrong with the Polish author example?
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#6The world will get a lot crazier in the years ahead, on the path to superhuman intelligence. Disruptions caused by past inventions, like the printing press, the steam engine, electricity or the Internet, will look unremarkable by comparison.
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#7Wait a minute, the Future of Truth is a book by Werner Herzog... Did this guy published a book with the same title? Why?
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#8What's wrong with the Polish author example?
According to "experts", you have to suffer to make good art. She used a tool that reduced that suffering phase, so she's "garbage" now.
I don't know about AI, but I think the main problem nowadays is that a growing number of people can only deal with binary categories, either it's godly or it's trash.
To conclude, anything that is not written with a stone tablet is garbage.
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#9Hank Green has had the best take I've heard which is AI is definitely something but everyones still figuring out what it is. It will likely end up being nothing like it is today.
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#10The commencement/graduating speeches including AI in the video at the end are infuriating. The message from people giving those speeches is literally "deal with it" and how tone deaf do they have to be to patronize those booing students with "I understand your fear".
The graduation episode where the AI readout missing some student names and then the college saying "we used AI to readout and some names were missed. We will not redo and you will not see your name on stage" is the worst.
I believe the main value of AI comes not from its productivity gains but because AI will increasingly become a tool for evading responsibility and accountability for actions in economic, social and worse even military functions.