One of the decisive moments in my understanding of #LLMs and their limitations was when, last autumn, @emilymbender walked me through her Thai Library thought experiment.
She's now written it up as a Medium post, and you can read it here. The value comes from really pondering the question she poses, so take the time to think about it. What would YOU do in the situation she outlines?
Being sceptical about the #LLM hype myself, I'm nevertheless stunned by its very existence.
She writes: "You could maybe even write something that a Thai speaker could make sense of."
That is the true mystery to me. How is this possible even without knowing the language, and to such an extent as we see it? And why are we so easily tricked to believe in #ai ?
"We’re the ones doing all the meaning making there, as we make sense of it."
Just wondered if you had any thoughts on AI and #wordpress? Should WordPress build aspects of AI into Core and what would they be? Perhaps this should be entirely the domain of plugins? What do you think?
@nathan hmm, image generation is a sticky subject. I sort of understand the draw, however, having done some graphic design in the past and having a sibling that is an artist, I have too much respect for those that do that as a profession to really be OK with promoting the image generation tools. #AI#art#artists#photography#photographers#WordPress
@nathan if #AI is going to be baked into #WordPress Core, without it being opt-in or easily turned off, then that will be the day I stop using WordPress. I'm fine if there is a canonical plugin for this that people can opt into but forcing this on people is outright wrong IMO.
Currently witnessing a hard-fought battle between Microsoft Word and Westlaw to see which one can take advantage of this modern supercomputer to operate in the most inefficient and cumbersome way possible
I would really love it if #Microsoft devoted fewer resources to frivolous deployments of #AI technology and more to overhauling the Word codebase so that it doesn't bring a modern M-series Mac to its knees just by opening a quarter-meg text document with track changes turned on. Every breathless article about Microsoft and Google and chatbots should open and close by observing that generative AI could never do as much damage to writers as decades of garbage functionality in Word and Google Docs.
It continues… - Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld: http://neil-clarke.com/it-continues/
This is what really concerns me regarding these generative AIs...
Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold - Xingang Pan, Ayush Tewari, Thomas Leimkühler, Lingjie Liu, Abhimitra Meka, Christian Theobalt: https://vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/DragGAN/
Imagine you are in the National Library of Thailand...
A great article about a difference between form and meaning in a context of #AI and #LLM (think: #ChatGPT )
Reading about a lot of wins lately in the medical/science fields where #AI has been applied to work through complex problems after being trained on sample training data.
The speed at which AI can solve these problems can surely only result in more breakthroughs like this as it evolves further. We live in exciting times!
🎈 Microsoft exec tells employees to make stock price go up to increase their pay
"an employee asked leadership what the rationale was behind not providing raises for employees given that Microsoft’s net income in the most recent quarter increased 9% year-over-year. Microsoft is also pouring massive amounts of money into A.I. technology and on acquisitions such as the pending $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard."
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'AI-wetgeving gaat te langzaam', EU en Google maken vroegtijdig afspraken - https://nos.nl/l/2476344#Google mist de #AI boot. Dus dan maar samenwerking
"Former #Google#CEO says AI poses an 'existential risk' that puts [many, many, many] lives in danger #EricSchmidt wants to prevent potential abuse of #AI.
Ever since he participated in a "National Security Commission on AI that reviewed the technology and published a 2021 report determining that the US wasn't ready for the tech's impact..." he has been speaking out critically against #AI.
U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology’s new policy report, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations, addresses the clear need for sharing knowledge | Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning - Office of Educational Technology https://tech.ed.gov/ai-future-of-teaching-and-learning/#AI#Education@edutooters
$20/month isn't a ton of money, but if you use a free UI with the #OpenAI API, you can get away with paying less than $5/month for #ChatGPT with relatively heavy usage and it's a lot more stable than the free version #AI#LLM#LLMs