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strong emotioms, weak epistemics .. for someone with Pike’s engineering pedigree, this reads more like moral venting .. with little acknowledgment of the very r

strong emotioms, weak epistemics .. for someone with Pike’s engineering pedigree, this reads more like moral venting .. with little acknowledgment of the very real benefits AI is already delivering ..

amvrrysmrthaker 10mo ago
It’s delivering 0 net benefits, only misery.
- ottah 10mo ago
  Obviously untrue, weather predictions, OCR, tts, stt, language translation, etc. We have dramatically improved many existing ai technologies with what we've learned from genai and the world is absolutely a better place for these new abilities.
  - easterncalculus 10mo ago
    >weather predictions wrong >OCR less accurate and efficient than existing solutions, only measures well against other LLMs >tts, stt worse >language translation maybe
    - logicprog 10mo ago
      >>weather predictions >wrong https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-deploys-new-generation-of-ai-driven-global-weather-models https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-deploys-new-generatio... ? >>OCR >less accurate and efficient than existing solutions, only measures well against other LLMs Where did you hear that? On every benchmark that I've ever seen, VLM's are hilariously better than traditional OCR. Typically, the reason that language models are only compared to other language models on model cards for OCR and so on is precisely because VLM's are so much better than traditional OCR that it's not even worth comparing. Not to mention that those top of the line traditional OCR systems like AWS, Textract are themselves extremely slow and computationally expensive. Not to mention much more complex to maintain. >>tts, stt > worse Literally the first and only usable speech-to-text system that I've gotten on my phone is explicitly based on a large language model. Not to mention stuff like Whisper, Whisper X, Parakeet, all of the state-of-the-art speech-to-text systems are large-language model based and are significantly faster and better than what we had before. Likewise for text-to-speech, you know, even Kokoro-82M is faster and better than what we had before, and again, it's based on the same technology.
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- cindyllm 10mo ago
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ottah 10mo ago
Most people do not hold strongly consistent or well introspective political ideas. We're too busy living our lives to examine everything and often what we feel matters more than what we know, and that cements our position on a subject.

amvrrysmrthaker 10mo ago

It’s delivering 0 net benefits, only misery.

ottah 10mo ago
Obviously untrue, weather predictions, OCR, tts, stt, language translation, etc. We have dramatically improved many existing ai technologies with what we've learned from genai and the world is absolutely a better place for these new abilities.
- easterncalculus 10mo ago
  >weather predictions wrong >OCR less accurate and efficient than existing solutions, only measures well against other LLMs >tts, stt worse >language translation maybe
  - logicprog 10mo ago
    >>weather predictions >wrong https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-deploys-new-generation-of-ai-driven-global-weather-models https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-deploys-new-generatio... ? >>OCR >less accurate and efficient than existing solutions, only measures well against other LLMs Where did you hear that? On every benchmark that I've ever seen, VLM's are hilariously better than traditional OCR. Typically, the reason that language models are only compared to other language models on model cards for OCR and so on is precisely because VLM's are so much better than traditional OCR that it's not even worth comparing. Not to mention that those top of the line traditional OCR systems like AWS, Textract are themselves extremely slow and computationally expensive. Not to mention much more complex to maintain. >>tts, stt > worse Literally the first and only usable speech-to-text system that I've gotten on my phone is explicitly based on a large language model. Not to mention stuff like Whisper, Whisper X, Parakeet, all of the state-of-the-art speech-to-text systems are large-language model based and are significantly faster and better than what we had before. Likewise for text-to-speech, you know, even Kokoro-82M is faster and better than what we had before, and again, it's based on the same technology.
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ottah 10mo ago

Most people do not hold strongly consistent or well introspective political ideas. We're too busy living our lives to examine everything and often what we feel matters more than what we know, and that cements our position on a subject.