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901.
by sfn42 3y ago
...what? Underlying insecurity? You think I'm afraid of computers being smarter than me? Sorry but that ship sailed a long time ago, I can't even beat a chess bot from the 90s. The fact that someone created a mathematical model do
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by sfn42 3y ago
If you don't want to learn you chose the wrong profession.
903.
by sfn42 3y ago
Not sure what you guys think software engineering means, but it's definitely not the same as what I think it means.
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by sfn42 3y ago
Going from O(n) to O(1) on an operation where n is 10 could be a performance downgrade. That doesn't mean it's useless, it just means there's more to it than the big O. Asymptotic complexity is about how things scale up. You
905.
by sfn42 3y ago
This is just wrong. Understanding the difference between O(1), O(n) etc is essential for literally everyone who writes code. Every single programmer is better with this understanding than without it. You should know the complexity of the co
906.
by sfn42 3y ago
Our brains work nothing like LLMs do.
907.
by sfn42 3y ago
Maybe you're the one drawing bad conclusions
908.
by sfn42 3y ago
No. It is a computer program which uses statistics to generate plausible text. It does not do any form of reasoning, at all, childlike or otherwise.
909.
by sfn42 3y ago
Math requires reasoning and logic, LLMs don't do reasoning nor logic. They just generate plausible text. That's why they're nowhere near AGI.
910.
by sfn42 3y ago
Welcome to the war on drugs - Ruining lives and wasting huge amounts of money for absolutely zero benefit since forever.
911.
by sfn42 3y ago
That's the unrealistic ideal.
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by sfn42 3y ago
Pretty sure we're quite a ways off that stuff yet, especially for consumers. But sure, maybe something like that will be reality in the coming decades.
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by sfn42 3y ago
That's why I always approach new languages as a complete beginner. It's tempting to jump into the deep end thinking you know the basics, but in my experience it has a lot of pitfalls. I like to find a book or "web book"
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by sfn42 3y ago
I think it's completely ridiculous how you people just casually imply that a current computer can somehow achieve "damn-near godhood". Hardware is a bottleneck. Better hardware can't be designed, manufactured and install
915.
by sfn42 3y ago
"The singularity" is science fiction. You can't just infinitely improve software on static hardware - hardware must be designed, manufactured and installed to accommodate improvements. Maybe you could have a powerful AI runni
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by sfn42 3y ago
Anywhere from 500-600k NOK with a fresh bachelor's degree to well over a million NOK with experience. The best paying jobs are usually provision-based consultant/contractor positions. Some companies go hard in that direction, othe
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by sfn42 3y ago
Oil is more than fuel. We have to solve a lot more problems than fuel before we can stop pumping oil.
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by sfn42 3y ago
I work at a fairly large firm where we do this. If you leave your computer unlocked it won't be long before "you" announce in the company slack that you'll bring cake on Friday. Or something like that. Some people still
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by sfn42 3y ago
Well I take issue with the reductive and trite notion that just because an LLM can generate plausible text it's suddenly maybe conscious and intelligent, maybe about to end humanity etc. It's exactly like the crypto hype wave. Eve
920.
by sfn42 3y ago
I don't need to prove anything. We know for a fact that LLMs are stochastic parrots. That's why they confabulate, if they were "intelligent" they wouldn't just pass off nonsense as fact. They have been fed incredibl
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by sfn42 3y ago
I take a similar approach in .NET. I try to build these Lego pieces as traditional classes - no dependencies (except maybe a logger), just inputs and outputs. And then I have a few key "services" which tie everything together. So
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by sfn42 3y ago
Love how the ai hypebros always downvote answers like this. Everyone's just insisting that LLMs are AGI just because they kinda seem that way.
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by sfn42 3y ago
Dumb people don't like other peoples success. It reminds them that they're dumb nobodies.
924.
by sfn42 3y ago
There's no point building a hypothetical system. You have no idea if it works until you try it. And lol, documentation? For a system that doesn't exist?
925.
by sfn42 3y ago
The people who believe the vaxx bullshit don't read shit longer than a tweet anyway.
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by sfn42 3y ago
It can generate text that talks about its existence. It's not conscious, it isn't talking. It's just a.co puter program that takes an input and produces an output. Stop anthropomorphizing it.
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by sfn42 3y ago
Whatever steps they choose not to take, someone else will. And LLMs aren't taking over the world any time in the foreseeable future, they're glorified parrots.
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by sfn42 3y ago
I just want to say that what you wrote in the second paragraph resonated with me a lot and I think I needed to read that right now. It seems obvious but I spend so much time worrying about the past and future, and the way you put it just cr
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by sfn42 3y ago
I have been struggling with many symptoms for close to a decade now. The worst one is acid reflux - only during the night, and when I wake literally every single morning my mouth tastes like I've been gargling concentrated vomit all ni
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by sfn42 3y ago
The people who criticize these questions do so out of insecurity - they know they aren't at the level required to solve it, which is embarrassing because it's pretty simple stuff, so they try to poke holes in it and justify their

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