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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’
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Yeah, it's definitely the next Dot Com bubble. It'll eventually be about as evolutionary as the transition from Radio to Television, but there's gonna be a major course correction first.
Radio to television is generous, IMO. LLMs aren't a path to AGI or even particularly useful to most people.
I believe that’s the point for proponents of AI: compare it to something that was once considered amazing, hoping you’ll fail to realize that it’s like comparing apples to oranges.
Any machine or algorithm that cannot consistently produce the same results from the same input is fucking garbage and that and LLM in a nutshell. Garbage.
A randomization function is expected to return a random result and works consistently.
Yeah, I was just playing around being annoyingly pedantic. I agree with your original statement, for what that's worth.
Telegraph was the big one, that shortened broadcast communication times from weeks to a couple days. (Receiving the news telegram -> publishing and distributing the newspaper). Radio shortened it from a couple days to a couple hours. Those two were revolutionary factors. TV was a relatively small evolution of radio. It didn't increase the speed or breadth of distribution; it only expanded the scope of what was distributed.
The internet was the big revolution. Cloud computing was another, smaller, revolutionary idea. AI is a rather small evolutionary take off from that.
Once again, LLMs have to prove useful for something first. I wager they're actually costing companies in the long run. Nothing about a net loss is revolutionary.
We are due for a course correction on Cloud Computing and Storage. Too many companies trust their most intimate secrets to Microsoft, Google, and Amazon; not to mention CloudFlare.
If I had to guess, too many government agencies are probably bought by big tech. Otherwise, they wouldn't let that neglect of privacy fly at such a scale. I suppose the question is when people will get sick enough of it that it results in a change.
most of eu/usa is trying to give access to palantir to private info, Uk with NHS, and palantir trying to get SSN/flock cameras, or other.
The EU also seems to be trying to copy the UK Online Safety Act: https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/-/work_items/13
And to have them be useful is a lot of setup and fuck around, needing to be done by someone experienced and not given to idiots to use for anything requiring reliability or rich substance.
I'd say they're like going from 3.1 to 95, but web versions which most people use are pretty useless for non-basic things and basic things it's usually faster to do yourself.
It's just how algorithmic prediction is.
AI (specifically the LLMs for which “hyper scale” datacenters are being built) are by good for summarizing large volumes of text down into a few points with reasonable accuracy.
This makes them good for pouring over all the data you’re being forced to store in the cloud, including your conversations, financials, political donation receipts, and that patent you’re preparing to file for your million-dollar idea that just might work. Please be sure to associate all your accounts with your verified ID or they will be subject to deletion and your name will be automatically listed on the suspected terrorist and pedophile watch lists.
Continue to participate in capitalism. We demand it.
“Pets.com, Webvan, Boo.com, eToys, and Kozmo will bravely lead us into the next Industrial Revolution”
Yeah that does sound dumb.
At least the internet had broad utility, just wasn't ready in 1999 to support e-commerce on that scale. It is now. I can't imagine a future where LLMs are similar. Even a theoretically perfect LLM is not like, actually knowledgeable.
I loved Kozmo, had a few friends who rode for Kozmo in Boston
Look, it'll put all your searches right there at the top in one roughly half-correct paragraph! All it takes is a quindecupling of energy usage and water usage in your community! Get some perspective!!