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Anyone who puts emerging or emergent in their headlines should be required to come back in 2 years time and do penance for their optimism.
by ggm 2y ago
Anyone who puts emerging or emergent in their headlines should be required to come back in 2 years time and do penance for their optimism.
- qnleigh 2y agoDo you remember when people discovered that LLMs had emergent coding ability? That turned out to be a pretty big deal...
- noduerme 2y ago...for who? people willing to commit code with a lot of hidden bugs? Or management in a hurry to lay people off? Don't underestimate how quickly people will run straight into a wall if you tell them it's a door.
- jdhendrickson 2y agoEloquently said.
- qnleigh 2y agoI should have said 'big deal, for better or for worse.' Regardless of whether one thinks it's a good thing, this was a major discovery that turned out to affect a lot of things.
- dsco 2y agoHow is it not emerging, if the phenomena hasn’t been hard-wired in and is unexpected?
- ggm 2y agoUnexpected I can handle. Emerging has overtones to AGI It's like fusion. "Sustained plasma" and "more energy out than in" said time after time after time.
- baq 2y agoEmergent basically means ‘we didn’t design this capability but it’s there’, it’s always been a thing, not sure why you associate it with AGI so strongly.
- johnthewise 2y agoDo you think its not emergent because you think this behavior was explicitly coded in or you dont think its emergent because you dont like the implications of thinking it?
- daveguy 2y agoOption 3: It's not emergent because the capabilities are vastly overstated.
- ggm 2y agoWords like emergent, hallucinate, reason, think, infer.. they carry additional meaning. Their use as terms of art in some cases is because for the cognoscenti it helps understand intent by simile, but for the person in the street it is read to mean much more. There are of course lots of interesting emergent behaviours, the patterns in bistable chemical reactions which fascinated Turing, patterns from fractals, flocking models for particle animations from a few rules.