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.
@ErikJonker “AI is for a large part opensource” means nothing. Which AI? Which tools? Which models?
Llama 2, Bard, Claude 2, GPT-4 are not open source at all.
It’s time to be lucid: this type of tools don’t help users, kill the planet and are based on stolen materials only to make some companies earn more money. That’s all.
@pylapp ... we can't enforce that this technology can and will not be used, that's a fantasy. A lot is closed source but also a part is opensource, everybody can implement and use it on their own.
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.
@albertcardona Yeah! People keep hyping up things in different ways!
But even if the performance was great and use cases were justified, I keep wondering how many people care about the harm subjected on other people or environment to achieve the "progress" they cheer for!
Indeed. And on that, any gains in efficiency of ANNs implementation or GPU tech are squandered by ever growing neural networks. The scale currently is horrendous; the electricity and water usage is outlandish. One wonders, was the choice of clean water or "AI", what would the fanboys choose then. At the moment they choose "AI" for themselves and water shortages for others.
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.
(2/2) The course covers the following topics:
✅ Deep learning foundation
✅ Computer vision
✅ Deep generative modeling
✅ Reinforcement learning
✅ Robot learning
✅ Text to image
: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."