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Well shit, that was fuckin’ interesting.
Yes, AI is evil. So is facebook. But the engineering is still interesting.
That's one of the things that frustrates me most about this whole AI thing. I fucking hate it and I want it to die, I wish it were never created in the first place. But from a tech enthusiast and a maths nerd point of view, it is super interesting.
Like the performance of these models is shit compared to a real person doing actual work. But if we think about what we are doing on a basic level, the performance is way beyond what I would expect it to be. I wouldn't expect it to be able to form a coherent sentence or scale as well as it does (even though the resources required to run these is still very high).
It could have been really cool shit people did studies on and played around with to explore the math. Cool little play models we could let go on a bunch of data and see what it did and how. Something for a small group of nerds and experts who are into that kind of thing, for the sake of learning and nothing else.
But no, somehow it got transmorphed into "AI". And marketed like this actual learning almost sentient computer system that can replace all workers. You can ask it anything and it will give PhD level expert answers. Oh and it's run by a handful of the most vile men imaginable who pour all of the world's money and resources into it, all so they get to be god emperor of the world. Fucking terrible.
Yeah totally agree. And I guess it's all down to the astronomical amount of guesses it gets to make in a given second. Sort of like contemplating infinity, but with words and testable.