I studied transformer architecture models and have played around with them (unfortunately) enough to understand how they work. Under the surface the model produces what look like XML tags <thinking> </thinking> to designate which tokens are thinking tokens and which are "normal" output. That is literally the only hard difference between the two output modes. The reinforcement learning might tune the thinking to be more like "what a human would expect to see in a thinking block" but it's still the same RNG madlib process generating everything underneath and any attempt to ascribe intelligence to this process should be met with ~~lethal force~~ incredulous cynicism. Just like any claim that "we don't know how they work" - actually yes we know exactly how they work. What we can't comprehend is the exact numbers and weights inside the massive pile of probabilistic algebra being processed to generate your slop. If I flip 5 coins in a row and the observer's belief is anything other than "you just got very lucky" most people would call them crazy rather than join the cult and worship the coin god...
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they pinned his response as being an autistic defect.
I think it makes far more sense to pin the temporarily embarrassed millionaires over the orange site as psychopaths and cargo cultists.
Enjoyed Andrew Kelley's rebuttal of the bun blog about moving from zig to rust
Some pretty good sneers in there like
Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs
The people who believe it are the MBAs and tech bros. They believe it because they desperately want for it to be true so that they can lay off all their staff and make 100% profit (these are not clever people and they haven't considered that if no-one has any income they won't have any customers. However, they do value geese).
US supreme court accidentally torpedoed the mechanism that allows data to be legally transferred to the US under GDPR. Not that anyone in the EU making money from an arrangement like this will actually do anything about it...
Anyone fancy some Sama stickers for sticking next to insanely priced consumer gadgets - remind the general public who to blame for their iPhone costing 2x or not being able to get hold of a ps5.
From the same presentation talk of an AI bubble is blasphemy
Giving strong "pay no attention that man behind the curtain" energy
Three scenes and a comment:
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Me sitting in the baking heat in my garden, thinking about my own anxiety about climate change (we currently have our 2nd once-in-a-thousand-years record-breaking heatwave in 2 weeks in Europe), food shortages, instability and genocide in the middle east and the rise of the far right across western democracy.
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I see another story: some AI bros posting about their "anxiety" about AI being the end of human labour and jobs whilst posing for selfies in their fancy digital nomad resort.
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I'm still sweating and scrolling from my garden... I see a quote about how we have to pick between the climate and AI...
We live in the dumbest and darkest timeline if we cannot collectively see the obvious course of action here. Social media, souped up by LLMs has collectively cooked our brains and hyper-segmented us into tiny echo chambers that don't have enough gravity to affect change. We need to break out of it
Prometheus the AI startup is a bit on the nose isn't it?
Another explanation that feels likely to me is that all the monorail salesmen at the big corps know the gig is nearly up so they are rushing to IPO or raise new funds (Google did the same recently) to maximise the amount of $$$ in their bugout bags as they sail off into the sunset
Yeah exactly.
I want to pause ai because it's a hypercapitalist project designed to further deskill and commoditise the middle class which coincidentally destroys the environment.
They want to pause ai because they believe that spicy autocomplete is intelligent and will one day soon manifest as a giant angry vengeful snek.
We are not the same.