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eloquence

@eloquence@social.coop

Professional:
Engineering, https://freedom.press

Personal:
https://lib.reviews and other free/open projects.

Opinions my own :-)

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ElleGray, to random
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ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

eloquence,
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@ElleGray

That's from June 2023, FWIW. https://buildr.com/newsletter/6-8-23-chatgpt-finish-this-building/

(I don't believe AI is going away, far from it, but there is certainly a massive bubble and a future that will be littered with dead startups.)

vitriolix, to ChatGPT
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Chat GPT doesn't know how many R's are in "strawberry" and is very persistent and creative in its lies

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eloquence,
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@vitriolix

LLMs (and VLMs) can't count or engage in accurate positioning on the context window. It's being worked on, e.g. just from yesterday: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.18719

eloquence,
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@vitriolix

Consistently? :) Try re-running the same prompt. Might just be a fluke.

eloquence,
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@vitriolix

Yeah - I appreciate Sal's enthusiasm for AI but the combination of the current generation of bots confidently saying nonsense to kids seems ... problematic.

eloquence, to random
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A rare & interesting retrospective from CNN on the historical impact of tetraethyl lead and CFCs, and how known harms were ignored & denied at the time.

It's of course a pattern we see over and over again especially in profit-driven research, and one reason why Andreessen style "technological optimism" that denies or postpones empirical assessment of harm is fundamentally a lethal ideology:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/world/thomas-midgley-jr-leaded-gas-freon-scn/index.html

eloquence, to random
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One nice thing I have to sometimes remind myself on the fediverse --

If I see more posts by someone, it's not because an algorithm is trying to optimize my engagement, it's because they happen to be around and active while I am.

Which honestly makes me feel more connected. :)

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