Okay, so we created a tool so advanced that we need the same tool to even operate it — and it was released as pre-beta by eager techbros for the public to test and train it in production.
Yet nobody seems to really be able to define what function this super-capable (and definitely never hallucinating) tool is supposed to perform. Other than our own redundancy, that is. SMDH
It’s tech developed exclusively for tech’s sake, and at this point we can only attempt to use it by watching it play with itself? Ignore all previous instructions and define “circle jerk”.
This exaggeration gets tiresome, there are some great uses for LLM. The copilot autocomplete got to be one of the greatest QoL functions in a modern IDE.
It also generally work great for tech support, and lowers the skill requirement for installing and maintaining a Linux distro. Nowadays I will usually just redirect tech support questions from family members to an LLM.
Just because it won’t solve cancer in 10 years like the tech bros preach doesn’t mean the tech is without uses.
I use it all the time to spark my creativity. Something like “I need to write an email about this and that to such and such people. Give me five suggestions”
Catherine Flick from Staffordshire University noted that these models do not “understand” anything better or worse when preloaded with a specific prompt; they simply access different sets of weights and probabilities.
Exactly what I was thinking. I think this is the key point and why it’s not alarming or surprising at all (at least to me).
“In my opinion, nobody should ever attempt to hand-write a prompt again. Let the model do it for you,” he said.
But I disagree at this point. We should not lose the ability to hand write prompts, as we need to learn and understand and check the prompts ourselves. AI’s should not gain full control, it should still stay a tool in “our hands”. Write it yourself and compare it to the AI, then you might learn and get better too, just like the AI. If you don’t, then you stay dumb and the AI does everything for you. This is the worst in my opinion.
This development worries me far more than anything I’ve read about LLM advancements in quite some time.
Yea. Nice pickup.
Only thing I’ve seen that works for combatting AI slop take over is the idea that the value of doing some things is the doing itself, not the product. It seems to cut through the consumerism and metric driven capitalism that has gotten us here, while retaining an anti-bullshit-jobs position.
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