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> Well you’re basing your conclusion on a 2 year blip of not being able to stop LLMs from hallucinating. LLMs can't truly reason. It's not about hallucinations

by ath3nd 1y ago

> Well you’re basing your conclusion on a 2 year blip of not being able to stop LLMs from hallucinating. LLMs can't truly reason. It's not about hallucinations. LLMs are fundamentally designed NOT to be intelligence. Is my Intellij autocomplete AGI? > Like the agi will be slightly mentally stupid at this one thing and because of that it’s not AI even though it blows past some Turing test (which in itself will be a test where we moved the goal post a thousand times) I can only respond with a picture https://substack.com/@msukhareva/note/c-131901009 https://substack.com/@msukhareva/note/c-131901009 > We’ve been moving at a breakneck pace and the progress has been both evolutionary in nature and random chance. Yes, I enjoy being 19% slowed down by AI tooling, that's real breakneck pace. https://www.infoworld.com/article/4020931/ai-coding-tools-can-slow-down-seasoned-developers-by-19.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/4020931/ai-coding-tools-ca... Just because this breed of autocomplete can drown you in slop very fast doesn't mean we are advancing. If anything, we are regressing.

ninetyninenine 1y ago
What does that picture even mean? That AI doesn't get things right? That picture is a fact everyone knows. It's obvious. I don't get how people think they can respond to this stuff regurgitating obvious information and thinking they just dropped the mic. Everyone knows Models hallucinate and get things wrong. Your point?
- ath3nd 1y ago
  My point is at best the LLMs are a waste of time, waste of an opportunity for doing your own thinking and creativity, and a waste of electricity and water. At worst they are a tool to influence people without critical thinking believing made up stuff on an unprecedented scale. What is your point? That LLMs can be useful for summarizing an email? Read the thing! That they can write a mediocre essay for you? Write it yourself. Can write your code (badly) for you? Write it yourself.
  - ninetyninenine 1y ago
    Your point is an opinion. They are a waste of your time and you’re so confused as to why the rest of the world doesn’t listen to your opinion and throw billions of dollars at LLMs. You’re incapable of understanding this. LLMs have flaws and they hallucinate we all know this. But no machine in the history of man kind has ever wrote a mediocre essay, summarized an email or wrote code (badly). This is where you’re lost. You can only think of how LLMs are useful to you and you’re unable to comprehend what this technology means relative to mankind. Relativity and particle physics is largely useless too so you must be the genius who asks why do we send probes to mars because it’s all fucking useless. Follow the trendline. LLMs are a stepping stone to what’s to come. It took a decade of ML to get here. Think about what the next decade will bring.

by ath3nd 1y ago

ninetyninenine 1y ago

What does that picture even mean? That AI doesn't get things right? That picture is a fact everyone knows. It's obvious. I don't get how people think they can respond to this stuff regurgitating obvious information and thinking they just dropped the mic. Everyone knows Models hallucinate and get things wrong. Your point?

ath3nd 1y ago
My point is at best the LLMs are a waste of time, waste of an opportunity for doing your own thinking and creativity, and a waste of electricity and water. At worst they are a tool to influence people without critical thinking believing made up stuff on an unprecedented scale. What is your point? That LLMs can be useful for summarizing an email? Read the thing! That they can write a mediocre essay for you? Write it yourself. Can write your code (badly) for you? Write it yourself.
- ninetyninenine 1y ago
  Your point is an opinion. They are a waste of your time and you’re so confused as to why the rest of the world doesn’t listen to your opinion and throw billions of dollars at LLMs. You’re incapable of understanding this. LLMs have flaws and they hallucinate we all know this. But no machine in the history of man kind has ever wrote a mediocre essay, summarized an email or wrote code (badly). This is where you’re lost. You can only think of how LLMs are useful to you and you’re unable to comprehend what this technology means relative to mankind. Relativity and particle physics is largely useless too so you must be the genius who asks why do we send probes to mars because it’s all fucking useless. Follow the trendline. LLMs are a stepping stone to what’s to come. It took a decade of ML to get here. Think about what the next decade will bring.