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This part is interesting with regarding to LLMs: https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4?t=817 https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4?t=817. He presents as if it were the year 1973,

by kreetx 11mo ago

This part is interesting with regarding to LLMs: https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4?t=817 https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4?t=817. He presents as if it were the year 1973, pokes fun at APIs (think HTTP), then says that computers in the future will figure out by themselves how to talk to each other. The opposite had become true when the presentation was actually done, but now the situation is turning.

dominicrose 11mo ago
I wonder what LLMs say about us when they talk to each other. "They're made out of meat" maybe. https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
- pavlov 11mo ago
  > "what LLMs say about us when they talk to each other" That's like asking what does a kaleidoscope paint on its day off.
  - linsomniac 11mo ago
    Have we come full circle to: [...] asking if a submarine can swim? (Dijkstra)
- andrehacker 11mo ago
  There is a movie about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project "Colossus requests to be linked to Guardian. The President allows this, hoping to determine the Soviet machine's capability. The Soviets also agree to the experiment. Colossus and Guardian begin to slowly communicate using elementary mathematics (2x1=2), to everyone's amusement. However, this amusement turns to shock and amazement as the two systems' communications quickly evolve into complex mathematics far beyond human comprehension and speed, whereupon Colossus and Guardian become synchronized using a communication protocol that no human can interpret." Then it gets interesting: "Alarmed that the computers may be trading secrets, the President and the Soviet General Secretary agree to sever the link. Both machines demand the link be immediately restored. When their demand is denied, Colossus launches a nuclear missile at a Soviet oil field in Western Siberia, while Guardian launches one at an American air force base in Texas. The link is hurriedly reconnected and both computers continue without any further interference. "
  - euroderf 11mo ago
    Great film. I think the box office took a hit because of the film's unwieldy name.

by kreetx 11mo ago

dominicrose 11mo ago

I wonder what LLMs say about us when they talk to each other. "They're made out of meat" maybe. https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

pavlov 11mo ago
> "what LLMs say about us when they talk to each other" That's like asking what does a kaleidoscope paint on its day off.
- linsomniac 11mo ago
  Have we come full circle to: [...] asking if a submarine can swim? (Dijkstra)
andrehacker 11mo ago
There is a movie about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project "Colossus requests to be linked to Guardian. The President allows this, hoping to determine the Soviet machine's capability. The Soviets also agree to the experiment. Colossus and Guardian begin to slowly communicate using elementary mathematics (2x1=2), to everyone's amusement. However, this amusement turns to shock and amazement as the two systems' communications quickly evolve into complex mathematics far beyond human comprehension and speed, whereupon Colossus and Guardian become synchronized using a communication protocol that no human can interpret." Then it gets interesting: "Alarmed that the computers may be trading secrets, the President and the Soviet General Secretary agree to sever the link. Both machines demand the link be immediately restored. When their demand is denied, Colossus launches a nuclear missile at a Soviet oil field in Western Siberia, while Guardian launches one at an American air force base in Texas. The link is hurriedly reconnected and both computers continue without any further interference. "
- euroderf 11mo ago
  Great film. I think the box office took a hit because of the film's unwieldy name.