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yogthos OP , 18 days ago to technology in Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”

Same, I think there are genuinely useful applications for this tech, but it’s far more limited than what’s being marketed. The sooner we get past the hype phase the better, because then we can start focusing on figuring out what this tech is actually good for.

The aspect that’s driving the hype currently is that we don’t know what the plateau is. And people are figuring out ways to improve both accuracy and performance of LLMs, so it’s difficult to say definitively what will be possible in the near future. For example, using a router with a set of LLMs can drastically reduce energy consumption while maintaining quality of the output lmsys.org/blog/2024-07-01-routellm/

Another example, is using a consensus model leads to more consistent outputs wired.com/…/game-theory-can-make-ai-more-correct-…

So, it’s possible that some of the more glaring limitations could be addressed, but it’s also possible that we’ll hit a wall because there are inherent problems with the approach. The context issue is one example where you start getting diminishing returns as the model gets bigger.

It’s going to be interesting to watch how this all develops.

yogthos , 19 days ago to worldnews in French election: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third

The biggest ignorance of most socialists and indeed communists is the idea that capitalism is a political system. It is not. That is basically part of the brain rot in the liberals mind as well. “oh, don’t go left, because then you’ll destroy capitalism”.

Thanks for writing that right at the top, discrediting the rest of your uninformed rant. Politics and the economy are fundamentally inseparable because at its core the economy is about allocation of labor and resources. Capitalism is inherently political because it states that the means of production are privately owned, and it’s the people who own them who get to decide towards what purposes labor and resources are allocated.

The fact that you don’t even understand the fundamentals of politics and economy perfectly highlights who has a simple mind creating a simple world.

yogthos OP , 19 days ago to memes in American Chopper memes are dialectical

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yogthos OP , 20 days ago to worldnews in Philippines turned down U.S. help amid South China Sea tensions

Weird how long it took for countries to start getting wise to this.

yogthos OP , 20 days ago to memes in American Chopper memes are dialectical

:)

yogthos OP , 20 days ago to programmerhumor in Software Archeology

looks AI generated to me

yogthos OP , 20 days ago to programmerhumor in Software Archeology

you curse the past you for being so selfish

yogthos OP , 20 days ago to programmerhumor in Software Archeology

“I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain.” www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/…/fermat.htm#:~:text=Wh…

yogthos OP , 20 days ago to technology in The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse

The crux of his argument was that scarcity serves as a catalyst for the perception of value. Constrained access to music prompted people to appreciate and savor it more intensely, leading them to invest greater time in its enjoyment, analysis, and sharing. This phenomenon also resulted in people incorporating their musical preferences into their self-identity, as their selection of albums conveyed significant information about their character.

yogthos OP , 20 days ago to technology in Boeing 747s still get critical updates via floppy disks

I don’t think the article argues against physical access though.

yogthos , 21 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

that’s an ideology of itself

yogthos , 21 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

I’ve explained to you what an ideology is repeatedly, you seem incapable of understanding what you’re being told. The human brain is not capable of holding the entire complexity of the material reality, and therefore it must rely on abstractions and simplifications to do reasoning. You, just like everyone else, have biases and make simplifications leading you to understand things in the specific way that you do. This signifies your particular ideology.

There are plenty of cases where people try to use empirical evidence with best intentions resulting in great harm being done as a result. Having good intentions is not an ideology, it’s an aspiration. The world view that guides your actions that you put into practice to try to achieve the goals that you believe to be desirable are what your actual ideology is.

yogthos , 21 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

You’ve just explained your simplistic ideology in this thread, and you’re not even capable of understanding why its simplistic when it’s explained to you.

yogthos , 21 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

The reality is that real world is far too complex to be understood with perfect accuracy. Therefore, everyone necessarily makes assumptions and simplifications leading them to see different options as being more harmful. What you’re describing is frankly an infantile understanding of how empirical observation works.

yogthos , 21 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

Because as I explained in my original comment, if it’s not AI it’s going to be some other bullshit.