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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 41 minutes ago

Me, a programmer, without any formal education, eating popcorn and reading the comments.
Just a little bit of impostor syndrome tonight boys, feelin' good otherwise :D

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I think the pace of development is such that it's only a few years before humans are no longer in the chain of decision making. It was just 2017 when the infamous transformer paper came out.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago

LLMs are incapable of reasoning. They just guess the next token.

[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A stupid person would believe this.

"AI" in its current iteration is a distillation of human knowledge. It lowers the barrier to access to long standing programming libraries that make people think it is some sort of smart. It seems intelligent because it's imitating the things we have already created.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yeah, that's what bothers me so much. It doesn't get "smarter" or imagine novel solutions. It simply has access to everything that's already existed.

I'm scared we're ~~gonna have~~ already experiencing some kind of intellectual slump because handing everything to the machine built on existing knowledge...doesn't yield any new ideas.

I'm sure they're still banking on human brains having new ideas, and then simply feeding those new ideas to the machine, before telling the thinker their brain is irrelevant thanks to their industrialized intellect-theft complex.

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