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"quite obscure" doesn't mean there is nothing in the internet that directly addresses the question. Here is an english analysis of the text that easily showed

by daveguy 9mo ago

"quite obscure" doesn't mean there is nothing in the internet that directly addresses the question. Here is an english analysis of the text that easily showed up in an internet search: https://www.cantab.net/users/leonardo/Downloads/Varian%20Symposium/12%20Lombard,%2013%20Mossa,%2014%20Couperus,%20Westenholz.pdf https://www.cantab.net/users/leonardo/Downloads/Varian%20Sym... This source includes analysis of "the Black Stone."

retrac 9mo ago
Not quite the same analysis. The human is better, no surprise. But the NotebookLM output links back to the original book in a very useful way. If you think about it as fuzzy semantic search it's amazing. If you want an essay or even just creativity, yes it's lacking.
- daveguy 9mo ago
  It doesn't have to be the same analysis to put it in a partially overlapping vector space. Not saying it wasn't a useful perspective shuffling in the vector space, but it definitely wasn't original. LLMs haven't solved any of the 2029 predictions as they were posited. But I expect some will be reached by 2029. The AI hype acts like all this is easy. Not by 2029 doesn't mean impossible or even most of the way there.
  - Workaccount2 9mo ago
    LLMs will never achieve anything as long as any victory can be hand waved away with "in the training set". Somehow these models have condensed the entire internet down to a few TB's, yet people aren't backing up their terabytes of personal data down to a couple MB using this same tech...wonder why
    - daveguy 9mo ago
      It wasn't a hand wave. I gave an exact source, which OP admitted was better. They certainly haven't "condensed the entire internet into a few TBs". People aren't backing up their personal data to a few MB because your assumption is false. Maybe when people stop hand waving abilities that aren't there we will better understand their use as a tool and not magic.
- suddenlybananas 9mo ago
  Surely there is analysis available online in French though?

by daveguy 9mo ago

retrac 9mo ago

Not quite the same analysis. The human is better, no surprise. But the NotebookLM output links back to the original book in a very useful way. If you think about it as fuzzy semantic search it's amazing. If you want an essay or even just creativity, yes it's lacking.

daveguy 9mo ago
It doesn't have to be the same analysis to put it in a partially overlapping vector space. Not saying it wasn't a useful perspective shuffling in the vector space, but it definitely wasn't original. LLMs haven't solved any of the 2029 predictions as they were posited. But I expect some will be reached by 2029. The AI hype acts like all this is easy. Not by 2029 doesn't mean impossible or even most of the way there.
- Workaccount2 9mo ago
  LLMs will never achieve anything as long as any victory can be hand waved away with "in the training set". Somehow these models have condensed the entire internet down to a few TB's, yet people aren't backing up their terabytes of personal data down to a couple MB using this same tech...wonder why
  - daveguy 9mo ago
    It wasn't a hand wave. I gave an exact source, which OP admitted was better. They certainly haven't "condensed the entire internet into a few TBs". People aren't backing up their personal data to a few MB because your assumption is false. Maybe when people stop hand waving abilities that aren't there we will better understand their use as a tool and not magic.
suddenlybananas 9mo ago
Surely there is analysis available online in French though?