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yogthos OP , 1 month ago to technology in Big Tech AI Is A Lie

yup

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to worldnews in Putin Came to Asia to Disrupt, and He Succeeded

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yogthos OP , 1 month ago to technology in Big Tech AI Is A Lie

I’d say it’s not so much that this tech doesn’t have value, but that it gets hyped up and used for things it really shouldn’t be used for. Specifically, the way models work currently, they’re not suitable for any scenario where you need an exact answer. So, it’s great for stuff like generative art or creative writing, but absolutely terrible for solving math problems or driving cars. Understanding the limitations of the tech is key for applying it in a sensible way.

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to worldnews in China tells US it would prevail in a Taiwan conflict without using nukes

I do hope you’re right because a direct conflict between US and China would be cataclysmic for the whole world. I also agree that US military likely understands that this wouldn’t end well for them, but it seems that the political class in US is completely unhinged. There’s also little sign that their puppets administering the island learned all the wrong lessons going by these statements inews.co.uk/…/taiwan-learning-ukraine-china-attac…

I do think China will try to avoid a military confrontation, but there are red lines like putting missiles in Taiwan that would force China to act.

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to worldnews in China tells US it would prevail in a Taiwan conflict without using nukes

Given that US can’t even win a war against Yemen, it’s pretty clear that burger empire has no business trying to take on China. Not to mention that US has lost every one of their own simulated conflicts in South China sea. Of course, we all know that burgerlanders lack the intelligence and wisdom to learn from their debacles, and will cheerfully rush into a war in China.

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to technology in Big Tech AI Is A Lie

not working due to hallucinations

It’s pretty clear that hallucinations are an issue only for specific use cases. This problem certainly doesn’t make ML useless. For example, I find it’s far faster to use a code oriented model to get an idea of how to solve a problem than going to stack overflow. The output of the model doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to get me moving in the right direction.

Furthermore, there is nothing to suggest that the problem of hallucinations is fundamental and can’t be addressed going forward. I’ve linked an example of a research team doing precisely that above.

wasteful in terms of resources

Sure, but so are plenty of other things. And as I’ve illustrated above, there are already drastic improvements happening in this area.

creates problematic behaviors in terms of privacy

Not really a unique problem either.

creates more inequality

Don’t see how that’s the case. In fact, I’d argue the opposite to be true, especially if the technology is open and available to everyone.

and other problems and is thus in most cases (say outside of e.g numerical optimization as already done at e.g DoE, so in the “traditional” sense of AI, not the LLM craze) better be entirely ignored.

There is a lot of hype around this tech, and some of it will die down eventually. However, it would be a mistake to throw the baby out with the bath water.

what I mean is that the argument of inevitability itself is dangerous, often abused.

The argument of inevitability stems from the fact that people have already found many commercial uses for this tech, and there is a ton of money being poured into it. This is unlikely to stop regardless of what your personal opinion on the tech is.

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to technology in Big Tech AI Is A Lie

Again, I’m not arguing that open source automatically solves problems, just that since AI is obviously going to continue being developed, it’s better if it’s done in the open.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in China's commercial 'artificial sun' achieves first discharge

No idea what ccp is, but CPC is demonstrably good for the people of China. Anybody who can’t see that needs to stop guzzling propaganda.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in China's commercial 'artificial sun' achieves first discharge

Won’t somebody think of the CEOs!

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in China's commercial 'artificial sun' achieves first discharge

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yogthos OP , 1 month ago to technology in Big Tech AI Is A Lie

Open source does actually pave the way towards addressing many of the problems. For example, Petals is a torrent style system for running models which allows regular people to share resources to run models.

Problems like hallucinations and energy consumption aren’t inherent either. These problems are actively being worked on, and people are finding ways to make models more efficient all the time. For example, by using the same techniques Google used to solve Go (MTCS and backprop), Llama8B gets 96.7% on math benchmark GSM8K. That’s better than GPT-4, Claude and Gemini, with 200x fewer parameters. arxiv.org/pdf/2406.07394

And here’s an approach being explored for making models more reliable wired.com/…/game-theory-can-make-ai-more-correct-…

The reality is that we can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube now. This tech will be developed one way or the other, and it’s much better if it’s developed in the open.

yogthos , 1 month ago to linux in What is your favourite shell to use

I really like fish because it has excellent contextual autocomplete based on the folder you’re in. I haven’t used any other shell that was as good at it.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in US signals that it has expanded policy to allow Ukraine to counterstrike into Russia

Bye

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in US signals that it has expanded policy to allow Ukraine to counterstrike into Russia

Pro tip. If you don’t want people to call you a child then don’t act like one.

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to worldnews in Chinese Prime Minister Qiang cancels meeting with Habeck

sure, updated with a translation