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I hate how tech bros make people hate all sorts of artificial intelligence by naming their fucking large language models AI. Without machine learning, I would have had to type this text all by myself. But look at me, speaking into a microphone. On the toilet! ๐ญ
Fuck tech bros. Love tech. If it's the good kind of tech. The one that doesn't drink all our water and doesn't consume all our electricity. And fucking graphics cards!
It's probably an llm doing the speech to text on your phone.
They're actually kickass for low stakes translation of natural language.
It's fucking stupid to use them to generate computer code listings based on pretending you're talking to a person.
They were originally developed as translation software, after all.
Might be, but then it's still open source and local on my hardware.
Word! I wouldn't even say that LLMs and other generative AI are a problem*. Locally run, i.e. in the hands of the people, and used on the right task, they can be a great tool! People are just fed up with centralised oligarch tech shoved down their throats in pursuit of the Epstein class' pipe dream: lay everybody off, automate (almost) all production and keep the profits to yourself.
* well, as long as you don't look to closely at how they were trained in the first place...
Hey, I would even look forward to being laid off due to tech becoming so advanced I'm not necessary anymore. Imagine how much fun I could have not working. It's the rich people eating up all the profit that makes me uneasy. But give me my time and enough money to play around and I'll be happy being laid off. I will still do what I do today, but not 40 hours a week. And just for fun.