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From what I read on their website, it's mostly used to "improve twitter". That doesn't sound very productive to me. I love using LLMs and they do improve my pro

by phito 2y ago

From what I read on their website, it's mostly used to "improve twitter". That doesn't sound very productive to me. I love using LLMs and they do improve my productivity, but they also use a ton of power that is currently mostly subsidized by investors. If I had to pay for the real power use of the prompts I made to learn VIM this month, I don't think I would could have called it a productivity boost. I hope we get to see low power, local LLMs with good performances rather than continuing building huge energy sinks like this one in times where we should be trying to lower our footprint. > Now we can use supercomputers to "simulate" the workflows of 95% of the office drones worldwide *(us included)*. I think that's a MASSIVE paradigm changing leap forward. This is not what it is doing. And if it was, why would I, as an "office drone" celebrate this...?

threeseed 2y ago
> From what I read on their website, it's mostly used to "improve twitter". I hope they use it for more than that. Because the way Twitter is going at the moment they are likely to be massively fined and/or banned by the EU. They have been continually warned to sort out the misinformation and by every definition it has gotten far worse since Musk took over. Was always surprised this purchase wasn't made by Tesla given they have actual use cases for it.
derefr 2y ago
> And if it was, why would I, as an "office drone" celebrate this...? Because nobody in management tends to notice or care when white-collar workers get stripped of most or even all their job responsibilities. There's a whole genre of Reddit post that goes something like "I only do a few real hours of work per week" or "I was hired but never told to do anything" or "my team was laid off but they forgot to fire me for five years, so I just came in and goofed off all day." (I think this is because many types of white-collar worker are secretly valued more for their knowledge and edge-case intelligence — i.e. their ability to solve emergency problems in a pinch, or randomly save the company a million dollars one day — than they are for consistent, productive output. For many such workers, "regular job duties" are just thing management uses to keep them busy so that they don't get bored and quit!) For a healthy company, "AI taking your job" actually means "AI taking all the stressful and boring parts of your job", leaving you to do just the fun parts. It's like the people who do data entry who secretly automate 99% of their work, leaving them to just "manage" a script — but someone else is stepping up to create the "script" for you to "manage."

by phito 2y ago

threeseed 2y ago

> From what I read on their website, it's mostly used to "improve twitter". I hope they use it for more than that. Because the way Twitter is going at the moment they are likely to be massively fined and/or banned by the EU. They have been continually warned to sort out the misinformation and by every definition it has gotten far worse since Musk took over. Was always surprised this purchase wasn't made by Tesla given they have actual use cases for it.

derefr 2y ago

> And if it was, why would I, as an "office drone" celebrate this...? Because nobody in management tends to notice or care when white-collar workers get stripped of most or even all their job responsibilities. There's a whole genre of Reddit post that goes something like "I only do a few real hours of work per week" or "I was hired but never told to do anything" or "my team was laid off but they forgot to fire me for five years, so I just came in and goofed off all day." (I think this is because many types of white-collar worker are secretly valued more for their knowledge and edge-case intelligence — i.e. their ability to solve emergency problems in a pinch, or randomly save the company a million dollars one day — than they are for consistent, productive output. For many such workers, "regular job duties" are just thing management uses to keep them busy so that they don't get bored and quit!) For a healthy company, "AI taking your job" actually means "AI taking all the stressful and boring parts of your job", leaving you to do just the fun parts. It's like the people who do data entry who secretly automate 99% of their work, leaving them to just "manage" a script — but someone else is stepping up to create the "script" for you to "manage."