Another article for free (but seriously subscribe to 404 they do great work) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-booed-ai
She’s a Real Estate VP. Out of touch by default.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-booed-ai for an article you can actually read.
I got a radical idea they are already usless
Learning is never useless or worthless. Education is not a jobs training program.
Someone needs to tell universities this. And students, for that matter.
Industrial Revolution: New machines almost instantly made factory owners 1000 to 10000 times wealthier.
LLMbeciles: New machines can’t count the 'r’s in “strawberry”.
Your echo chamber told you something, and you failed to verify that info. You’re no better than the “LLMbeciles”.
Seriously? The strawberry thing is well-documented (and personally tested). But of course the people who make the systems don’t ever change them to fix these humiliating errors.
This is the best you can do to defend your slop machines? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
“LLM can too count the Rs in Strawberry (now)!” isn’t the flex you seem to think it is, Sparky.
There are lots of great reasons to be critical of AI. Point to the power consumption, point towards the safety issues, but avoid using out of date examples as they weaken your stance.
Why don’t you point to the things you want to stress and let others point to what they want to make fun of, Sparky?
Since, however, the point of the strawberry thing is escaping you, let me explain it.
EARLY automation was a game changer, pretty much from the day it was introduced. The spinning jenny magnified worker productivity 8-fold in its very first model, and expanded rapidly thereafter. The production of yarn dramatically increased while at the same time the price of any individual unit of it plummeted. A chronic shortage of weft yarn that had been limiting the production of the weaving industry at large suddenly vanished. Any company that put a spinning jenny into their production line saw instant, massive benefits.
EARLY LLMs were amusing idiots recommending glue on pizza and eating rocks. Later LLMs were amusing idiots that couldn’t count the letters in strawberry. Current LLMs are amusing idiots that can’t find the obvious solution to a trivial problem that I literally just tested before posting this:
At NO POINT have LLMs done anything anywhere near as impactful and beneficial as the Industrial Revolution did. They did, however, match and then exceed all the bad effects of the Industrial Revolution, so hey, at least they accomplished something!
So, Sparky, though the strawberry thing may have been clumsily fixed, here’s another just-taken snapshot that shows even the latest LLMbeciles are still trivial to fool, hallucinating the dumbest fucking thing that a TODDLER could find the answer to!:
But hey, now they can count the Rs in “strawberry” finally! Good job! Two big thumbs up!
You pointed to something that was out of date. I helped you make your argument stronger and you got butthurt about it.
Glad I could teach you something, kid.
You missed the point about early states of tech and pointed to something irrelevant.
The kiddy table is over that way. Adults are speaking here.
Also, the industrial revolution fucked over a lot of people during the transition period so even if it was an accurate comparison it’s rather callous to celebrate it.
This is precisely why I am suspicious of any and all “disruptive” technologies.
If this technology is so disruptive that it will generate unparalleled wealth for society, then that’s enough wealth that you can afford to keep paying the people about to get displaced and their livelihood destroyed. Don’t want to do this? Fuck your “disruption”.
(And if it’s like LLMs, it won’t be positively disruptive in any light. It’s just a Ponzi scheme for the highest stakes ever.)
