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What's crazy to me is it seems that we as a society have determined that it is far easier and more efficient to throw billions of dollars into a language token
by gh0stcat 2y ago
What's crazy to me is it seems that we as a society have determined that it is far easier and more efficient to throw billions of dollars into a language token generating tool than teach people how to work with computers. It shows that most humans find it so psychologically painful to understand a system of rules and logical problem solving, that they choose to use an LLM, which in many instances is a far less efficient and salient solution.
- fragmede 2y agowe, as a society didn't get together and vote on "hey how should we best teach computers to people?" It came about through capitalism and having a free market of ideas. Framing it your way makes it seem weird.
- robocat 2y agogh0stcat didn't say any of that: it appears you are framing them. Guidelines: In Comments: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
- basch 2y agothis downplays how interesting it is to teach computers to speak (and parse) english (and chinese and every language, and be able to translate between all) vs teaching humans to speak computer. speaking computer is precise. speaking human language is rich.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoOur generation dreamed too of speaking with a computer as if it was a personal assistant. SciFi is full of examples. Kids now just were lucky to live in an era where it's starting to look doable. But we still need to know how to use computers, even Scotty got down to a keyboard when needed.