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by encyclopedism 9mo ago
LLM's have surpassed being Turing machines? Turing machines now think? LLM's are known properties in that they are an algorithm! Humans are not. PLEASE at the very least grant that the jury is STILL out on what humans actually are
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by encyclopedism 9mo ago
> Am I supposed to want to code all the time? When can I pursue hobbies, a social life, etc. I feel you. It's a societal question you're posing. Your employer (most employers) deal in dollars. A business is evaluated by its abi
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by encyclopedism 9mo ago
I tend to agree with your assessment. The increase in demand cannot possibly equal the loss from AI. Given projections of AI abilities over time AI necessarily creates downward pressure on new job creation. AI is for reducing and/or el
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by encyclopedism 9mo ago
Lots of users seem to think LLM's think and reason so this sounds wonderful. A mechanical process isn't thinking, certainly it does NOT mirror human thinking. The processes being altogether different.
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by encyclopedism 9mo ago
This type of naive response really is bothersome! Humans are probabilistic systems?! You might want to inform the world's top neuroscientists and philosophers to down tools. They were STILL trying to figure this out but you've alr
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by encyclopedism 9mo ago
The definition is broad for now this will do: Logic is the study of correct reasoning.
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by encyclopedism 9mo ago
It hasn't learned any LOGIC. It has 'learned' patterns from the input.
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by encyclopedism 9mo ago
AI companies and corporations in general control your politicians so taxing isn't going to happen.
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by encyclopedism 9mo ago
Please do read up on how farmers are doing with this race to the bottom (it hasn't been pretty). Mega farms are a thing because small farms simply can't compete. Small farmers have gone broke. The parent comment is trying to highl
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
> are these tools really that hard to use? Exactly! If people have 'never felt this far behind' and the LLM's are that good. Ask the LLM to teach you. Like so many articles on 'prompt engineers' this (never felt
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
Many HN users may point to Jevons paradox, I would like to point out that it may very well work up until the point that it doesn't. After all a chicken has always seen the farmer as benevolent provider of food, shelter and safety, that
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
I concur with your sentiments. Am puzzled why so many on HN cannot see this. I guess most users on HN are employed? Your employers - let me tell you - are positively salivating at the prospect of firing you. The better LLM's get the fe
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
Software doesn't have to be good academically speaking. It just needs to furnish a useful function to be economically viable. LLM's may not generate the best code but they need only to generate useful code to warrant their use.
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
Very well put
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
> the core aspect of software dev is architecture which you don’t have to lose when instructing an agent. Most of the time I already know how I want the code to look, I just farm out the actual work to an agent and then spend a bunch of
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
I agree with much of what you say. Career being the core of one's identity is so ingrained in society. Think about how schooling is directed towards producing what 'industry' needs. Education for educations sake isn't a
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
You're wrong in saying so. Many companies are quite literally mandating their use, do a quick search on HN.
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
Here here. I totally agree with both the authors sentiments and your comments.
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
As someone said "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes".
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
Coding is merely a means to an end and not the end itself. Capitalism sees to it that a great many things are this way. Unfortunately only the results matter and not much else. I'm personally very sorry things are this way. What I can
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
As I've commented already... The core issue is that AI is taking away, or will take away, or threatens to take away, experiences and activities that humans would WANT to do. Things that give them meaning and many of these are tied to e
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
The core issue is that AI is taking away, or will take away, or threatens to take away, experiences and activities that humans would WANT to do. Things that give them meaning and many of these are tied to earning money and producing value f
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
This is the inevitability of unfettered capitalism. The pressure is towards generating wealth, with the intended hope that the side effect will be that this produces net 'good' for society. It has worked (to varying degrees) and h
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
Well algorithms don't think. That's what LLM's are. Your digital thermometer doesn't think either.
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
I understand the sentiment, yet I can still complain ;-) I do think there is a qualitative difference in AI as compared to previous automation changes. This qualitative difference and its potential impacts beyond the obvious (job losses) is
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
The core issue is that AI is taking away, or will take away, or threatens to take away, experiences and activities that humans would WANT to do. Things that give them meaning and many of these are tied to earning money and producing value f
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
Amazon.com is a business. AI is a technology in of itself it isn't a business. Thus far it appears applications of AI that provide 'benefit' do so by removing or reducing the need for human operators. Examples include: fewer
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
You've hit the nail on the head. AI use cases do not appear to be of the type that unlock NEW capabilities. The main use cases in AI are not about wealth creation but about saving existing wealth (largely through increased automation o
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
An LLM is an algorithm. You can obtain the same result as a SOTA LLM via pen and paper it will take a lot of long laborious effort. That's ONE reason why LLM's do not have cognition. Also they don't reason, or think or any of
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by encyclopedism 10mo ago
Hallucinations can never be fixed. LLM's 'hallucinate' because that is literally what they can ONLY do, provide some output given some input. The output is measured and judged by a human who then classifies it as 'correc

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