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This is the main thing that I keep harping about that human knowledge is too vast today for a person or even a group of people and llm will change that many dis
by xbmcuser 5mo ago
This is the main thing that I keep harping about that human knowledge is too vast today for a person or even a group of people and llm will change that many discoveries that require serendipity in the past will be more likely than ever
- yourapostasy 5mo agoI want to hear James Burke of Connections [1] and his writer team to have a free wheeling discussion for a few hours on what they see will happen with LLM’s making these connections with more conscious intent a lot easier. The awesome compression of knowledge aspect of LLM’s is a far undersold aspect of the technology. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(British_TV_series...
- Nashooo 5mo agoI don't think you can look at the current AI landscape and say any aspect of it is undersold.
- serf 5mo agoI totally disagree. AI is overhyped, but the demos that have impressed me most are things/elements that very few people are touching and that no one seems to be talking about. the hype is where the money is, as is always -- marketing & porn. Both touched heavily by AI already.
- pluc 5mo agoEven a broken clock is right twice a day.
- anthonyrstevens 5mo agoI'm not sure what your point is - can you expand?
- pluc 5mo agoPeople are marveling at what AI can discover purely out of time and chance. AI will undoubtedly find awesome things because there's very few things we've thrown this much money at. For every awesome thing AI finds, there's a million mistakes, fake leads, hallucinations, etc. Amaze away but let's not forget this is an exception much more than the norm.
- throwaway27448 5mo agoPresumably with automated proofs, hallucinations (aka, creativity or confabulation, if we hadn't botched the naming) is a good thing. It's in the empirical world where trusting an LLM is a stupid thing because there's no automated form of fact checking.
- bnchrch 5mo agoI'm sorry. But whats the point of this critique? That a raw LLM hallucinates? That we never see all the mistakes and dead ends a complex system using AI hits? Does it even matter if its accuracy rate across all its experiments is < 100% if it can run trillions of experiments in the same time a human could run 1? We don't see many of the failed attempts of Human Researchers. Why? Because it doesn't matter. What amazing here is that it shows our society can make discoveries faster in the post LLM world. Thats incredible. Your "critique" of how it happened. Not so much.
- switchbak 5mo agoAs a human, I have many stupid and wrong ideas all day long - most of those don't bubble up to my conscious awareness. If LLMs hallucinate and come up with crazy things, maybe that's ok given that we can filter out the sensible and novel ones.
- falcor84 5mo ago> As a human, I have many stupid and wrong ideas all day long - most of those don't bubble up to my conscious awareness I'm sorry to nitpick, but isn't an unconscious idea an oxymoron?
- pojzon 5mo agoThere is one issue with this. When noone can prove or disprove what AI came up with. Currently we can live with it because someone can review that work. Soon we wont be able.
- aspenmartin 5mo agoWe can use things like Lean for math proofs, verification is tractable.