@arstechnica it doesn’t need work it needs a fundamental rethink of whether the technology makes sense outside of specific research or narrow use cases.
It should never have made it out of research labs or opt-in curiosities for technologists.
None of these details are interesting and almost aren’t even worth reporting on.
This is a stupid, stupid bubble and saying they need to work on parts of it is like saying we’re close but just need refinement which is concretely untrue.
He puts into clear terms what had previously been an unarticulated, creeping suspicion I had about #GenAI. Clearly there are many angles from which to come at what's going on with #AI#hype , but I appreciate this one quite a bit.
FreeCodeCamp released today a new course for fine tuning LLM models. The course, by Krish Naik, focuses on different tuning methods such as QLORA, LORA, and Quantization using different models such as Llama2, Gradient, and Google Gemma model.
It’s nauseating that the hyperscalers are crankin’ the carbon to inflate the AI bubble like there’s no tomorrow (which there won’t be, for my children, if we don’t cut back) but hey, don’t forget that Bitcoin is still in the running for the single most dangerous-to-the-planet use of computers.
🔥 How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town | Slate
"Generate a bunch of free images and accounts, have them buy and boost one another in perpetuity, inflate metrics so that the “art” gets boosted by DeviantArt and reaches real humans, then watch the money pile up from DeviantArt revenue-sharing programs. Rinse, repeat."
Aha, I get it now: the GenAI enshittification of cloud services like Slack, StackOverflow, Google, Discord, MSFT, and all the rest is a conspiracy by lonely SysAdmins who miss the old days of running IT equipment in-house and are pushing a return to on-prem 🖥️💽⌨️
TIL: CxO people are making crucial strategic decisions based on ... what ChatGPT happens to regurgitate. 😵💫
So to have a chance of a good understanding of your services or ideas, and therefore a good decision from these CxO people, you need to feed the GenAI beast with more publicly available data.
MIT launched the 2024 edition of the Introduction to Deep Learning course by Prof. Alexander Amini and Prof.Ava Amini. The course started at the end of April and will run until June. The course lectures are published weekly. The course syllabus keeps changing from year to year, reflecting the rapid changes in this field.
:cwy: I thought Google deepfaked Weird Al, but the truth turned out to be far more disturbing.
"Rebillet has over 2 million followers on both YouTube and TikTok, where he’s best known for his viral “Night Time Bitch” sound clip and songs in which he screams at people to get out of bed while wearing a bathrobe."
The truer function of #GenAI is less answering than illuminating, helping the human prompter locate hitherto obscure paths and connections between ideas on an incomprehensibly large map made of language and vector math.
Used properly, GenAI is a torch that broadens the field of possibilities known to its human petitioner, who must still interpret, investigate, and decide.
From Pong on the Atari to Mario Bros on Nintendo there as a massive leap in what appeared to be possible on such limited hardware. The hardware engineers and software developers at Nintendo were able to achieve such an amazing result due to their clever solutions.
Today we have these modern AI systems which clearly have limitations. I am now thinking what would it take for this same leap from Atari to Nintendo. We know there are problems with GenAI, but what could be done with it with these known limitations? The possibilities are still pretty hard to fathom. #AI#GenAI#Nintendo#Atari
Stanford University released a new course last week focusing on Deep Generative Models. The course, by Prof. Stefano Ermon, focuses on the models beyond GenAI models.
A policy on use of Generative AI has been accepted by the Minecraft Wiki community.
With development of new tools and technology, wikis have to keep up and evaluate risks and effects of those on the wiki and their communities. This policy is a result of exactly those evaluations.
Just FYI, if you have older parents or other family members, set up some sort of shibboleth with them so they know what to ask you if you ever call them asking for something. These new generative models are going to be extremely convincing, and the idiots in charge of these companies think they can use guardrails to stop it being used inappropriately. They can't. #genAI#LLMs#chatgpt