I would much rather get a "no results" when I'm looking for medical interactions than an #LLM helpfully telling me "Here's some bullshit you don't know enough to know is horribly wrong"
Even something as innocent as acetaminophen can destroy your liver if you overdose on it.
Facebook’s “AI” is responding to posts pretending to be human; in this case claiming to have a gifted and disabled child who attends a NYC school.
How many other accounts are actually large language models masquerading as people? This seems incredibly irresponsible—and is a great reminder that “AI” is machines mindlessly regurgitating things from elsewhere on the Internet.
#AI and #LLMs have transformed computing indeed: we moved from a completely deterministic approach to telling computers what to do to one where we mumble various spells and incantations and hope they achieve something.
Google Gemini aims for a 10 mil tokens context. It's so large that you can put books, docs, videos. They all fit in this context size. Will this replace RAG?
Don't think so because:
-💸 money; you still pay per token
-🐢 slow response time
-🐞 a huge context is hard to debug
#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs#PromptEngineering#TechnicalWriting#SoftwareDocumentation#Productivity: "Many tech writers have a constant fear that AI will take our jobs. I often think, what I’m doing isn’t rocket science. Any person with some education can do it. And yet, just as engineers struggle to write, tech writers frequently struggle with AI tools. They don’t understand how to use them effectively. Even though “prompt engineering” is often a ridiculed term online, again and again I hear feedback from TWs about AI not being useful to them, or they simply don’t have interest in AI, as if it’s irrelevant to their work. This blows me away. When I can ramp up on a product in an hour and write a user guide in a couple of days, and code a doc publishing script that automates even more tasks, how can AI not be useful? How can it not be essential?
An often repeated saying is that AI tools won’t replace us, we’ll be replaced by those who know how to use AI tools. I feel like this is more and more true. Consider this scenario: You hire a roofer to install a new roof, which mainly involves removing the old shingles and installing new ones. One roofer arrives with a hammer. It will take this roofer 2 weeks to do the job. Another roofer arrives with a pneumatic roofing nailer power tool. It will take this roofer 3 days to do the job. The cost of the first roofer is 4 times that of the second. The output is pretty much the same. Which roofer do you hire?
It’s the same with tech writers. Suppose you have a large project. One tech writer can create the documentation using AI tools in a quarter of the time, while the other will take 75% longer. Which tech writer do you hire?
Fortunately, I think tech writers can learn how to use AI tools as power tools. Especially with more awareness and knowledge about effective prompting techniques, tech writers can become much more productive using AI." https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-is-accelerating-me
imagine a construction company that put out a statement, “we’re going to stop using power tools because there’s a lot of workplace injuries”. That would be crazy. Sure, i get that with a circular saw, it LOOKS like you just have to pull a trigger, but there’s actually a bit more to using it safely. You train your workers #LLMs#AI
“Those are four essential characteristics of human intelligence — also animal intelligence, for that matter — that current #AI systems can’t do,” he said.
#AI#GenerativeAI#LLMs#Languages: "Recently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and millions of others in Benin and neighboring countries—as “a fictional language.”
This result, which I replicated, is not unusual. Dossou is accustomed to the feeling that his culture is unseen by technology that so easily serves other people. He grew up with no Wikipedia pages in Fon, and no translation programs to help him communicate with his mother in French, in which he is more fluent. “When we have a technology that treats something as simple and fundamental as our name as an error, it robs us of our personhood,” Dossou told me.
The rise of the internet, alongside decades of American hegemony, made English into a common tongue for business, politics, science, and entertainment. More than half of all websites are in English, yet more than 80 percent of people in the world don’t speak the language. Even basic aspects of digital life—searching with Google, talking to Siri, relying on autocorrect, simply typing on a smartphone—have long been closed off to much of the world. And now the generative-AI boom, despite promises to bridge languages and cultures, may only further entrench the dominance of English in life on and off the web."
The consistent theme here is that they all want little regulation. They don't want the others to be entrenched.
A profile of Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch, who says, as an atheist, he is uncomfortable with Silicon Valley's #"AGI rhetoric" and "religious" fascination with #AI.
Have people tried to link the output of #llms to devices that take actions in the real world? What if one creates a way for an #llm to make pull requests on #github or #gitlab ? The #ai could spend day and night browsing through #foss to improve them. That would be as much exciting as creepy!
Google touting that its latest #AI models and services can be grounded through its search results isn't the boast it thinks it is, especially considering the quality of its results lately. Has anybody considered the feedback loop of AI results being ranked hire and then being used to ground Gemini Pro?
Whenever I see OpenAI's Sam Altman with his pseudo-innocent glance, he always reminds me of Carter Burke from Aliens (1986), who deceived the entire spaceship crew in favor of his corporation, with the aim of getting rich by weaponizing a newly discovered intelligent lifeform.
#llms are the ultimate answer to the internet #google created: they avoid ads, ignore superfluous information of cooking recipe websites, and create a layer of privacy between you and the #internet. Well, at least as long as you can trust the provider of the LLM...
Content providers will feel that this hurts their pocket. It essentially gives everyone on the internet an ad blocker and this may lead to more paywalls. Will #ai providers start to buy information from these content providers? Or will they sell opportunities to place information?
Two articles I saved about a year ago, maybe worth reflecting now when it comes to what #LLMs can achieve and cannot achieve, have achieved and been used for in the past year, and how the applications scape has been developing:
Move over, deep learning: Symbolica’s structured approach could transform #AI
Artificial intelligence startup Symbolica emerged from stealth today and unveiled a novel approach to constructing AI models, leveraging advanced mathematics to imbue systems with human-like reasoning capabilities and unprecedented transparency.
I posted an early discussion of this earlier. But Apple's work on this could make shortcuts work so much better and #accessibility work faster and more accurate.
Ferret-UI: Grounded Mobile UI Understanding with Multimodal #LLMs