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[โ€“] jaykrown@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Meanwhile we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems. There is an insane amount of misguided waste coming from AI. ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] oakward@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

This can turn out to be a great way to help businesses and society in general. If these bots start to cooperate, this could be an organisation of bots. Like a company or an NGO or similar.

All bots have some sort of limitation, from hallucinations to loss of focus (short memory). I am curious of what happens if they come together to overcome their shortcomings. Just like organised teams in companies, with a given purpose and specialised knowledge.

[โ€“] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They don't have short memory, they have NO MEMORY AT ALL.

These are statistical word generation machines, that's what LLMs are right now. They are REALLY good at this.

But they do not have memory, they do not learn, they do not make decisions. Which means they are incapable of cooperation as such a thing cannot exist without memory or the ability to learn, and decisions cannot be made without either of those.


These tools provide the illusion of such attributes.

  • There is no memory, the whole context is sent on every request, the LLM does not have knowledge of prior conversations. It only knows what it is provided in that request only.
    • Lots of tricks and hacks to make this illusion really good in incredibly small scales. But it's still an illusion. Outside of fine-tuning and retraining new LLMs, which is not feasible to do on a frequency of communication.
  • There is no learning.
    • Without memory learning is impossible. Learning requires retraining a model, and to a degree fine tuning. Both of these are resource intensive and are static. And only provide the illusion of learning as it cannot happen in real time.
[โ€“] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

Thats not technically possible.

the biggest tech problem is AI itself, turn it off and it'll fix so much

[โ€“] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 13 hours ago

we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems

[โ€“] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Who cares what business problems AI solves. Humans don't need to exist to serve capital. It should always be the other way around. That's one of the reasons we are in this shitty capitalist hell hole, everyone has been indoctrinated into thinking of everything in terms of It's economic benefit.

[โ€“] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Money is literally just a tool. If you serve the money, you're its tool. That makes you a tool's tool. Double tool. A twool.

[โ€“] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Right... a tool that is destroying our planet all in the name of "the economy".

[โ€“] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 27 minutes ago

Well I mean nobody ever said a tool couldn't be used by bad people to do bad things.

[โ€“] mad_djinn@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

calling something literally just a tool, is really a platitude. explain what a tool is and why that designation legitimizes the presence of a particularly horrendous feature of our society. do it without using the word 'progress' and I'll suchk you off

[โ€“] bastion@feddit.nl 0 points 8 hours ago