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Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)
submitted 1 year ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction....So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but ultimately incomplete, developers complain that they are short on data. They have their general purpose computer program, and if they only had the entire world in data form to shove into it, then it would be complete.

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

this data is not the world, but discourse about the world

To be fair, the things most people talk about are things they’ve read or heard of, not their own direct personal experiences. We’ve all been putting our faith in the accuracy of this “discourse about the world”, long before LLMs came along.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Indeed. I've never been to Australia. I've never even left the continent I was born on. I am reasonably sure it exists, though, based on all the second-hand data that I've seen. I even know a fair bit about stuff you can find there, like the Crow Fishers and the Bullet Farm and the Sugartown Cabaret.

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