"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Right. It's ~~turtles~~ humans all the way down. And if you spend enough time on freelance job boards, you realize that everyone in this sector is trying to find "experts" willing to train models to approximate what they do. Hey, if someone has to do that to make a quick buck to feed their family or whatever, well OK, but boy is it gross. 🤢
It isn't human intelligence. It isn't any kind of intelligence... it's an input-output machine that drags your query through the fecal sediment of reddit/youtube/4chan/etc comments and presents you with what sticks.
It's like a toaster: untoasted bread goes in, lever gets pushed, machine does its thing, toasted bread comes out. Toasters aren't intelligent... or stupid, or any other measure of thought processing, because they don't think. They just do.
Except instead of bread, it's a question or image or w/e, and instead of toastiness it's shit.
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Sold back in an inferior version as a subscription.
Sub...scription? What are you on about?
That's the model every LLMbecile vendor wants and offers. The free chatbots are the loss leader. (With "loss" holding up a lot of lost dollars!) The intent is to have you convert into the paid subscriptions.
Which almost nobody is doing.
LLM's what? LLM's code? LLM's murders? That's a possessive apostrophe, you're supposed to put a noun after it.
Yes. That was the important point. The apostrophe. Because nobody could possibly figure out what the message was without it. Even though spoken it would be the same with or without it and readily understandable.
Because pedantry is an extremely attractive trait that is in no way, shape, or form obnoxiously pointless.
There’s also the argument by pro AIers who say “well it passed the Turing test, so it’s intelligent!”
What they consistently forget is that the LLMs cheated by being built with the entirety of the internet’s data, with at least some of it being guides on how to complete said Turing test.
Once an AI passes the Turing test without the entirety of the internet’s data being fed to it, then maybe it’s intelligent, who knows.
I think the better way to word the Turing thing isn't that the LLMbeciles passed it but rather that humanity failed it.