“So long, and thanks for all the fish!” 🐬

Where do I get me some POT-ON???

I thought pot was for smoking

Sure, but that’s because most things are actually very easy to grow.

Doing with it, sure, but the creation of LLMs, and the algorithms behind them, especially the training, are what I’m talking about. It’s a lot of very impressive, complicated math

I think it’s pretty pathetic that “fuck AI” has become the trendy, cool thing. It really misses the mark. It should be fuck capitalism and the sociopathic CEOs abusing AI and shoving it down our throats. AI is not the problem.

For real. Tomatoes are so easy to grow, and homegrown tomatoes taste so much better.

Such a fallacy. Anything that falls under the umbrella of machine learning will contribute to future AI. We certainly won’t improve LLMs such that they become AGI, but all of it contributes.

And, whether or not future AI even uses traditional silicon computing is also irrelevant.

What matters is improved understanding of mathematics, neurons, chemistry, electronics, etc. That all happens each step of the way, even if the next technology is completely different.

If you treat animals as though they have agency and intelligence, they really do learn a lot and have unique personalities.

I’m pro optimistic nihilism. Nothing has any inherent meaning, so I have the privilege of assigning my own meaning to things.

Thanks! I’ll be back in a month with my new crow buddy

But how do I get a crow friend?

I’ve had tinnitus as long as I can remember, and it doesn’t bother me at all. I’ve gotten used to it. I mean, I never don’t hear it, so there’s no alternative.

Very-stick spray cooking

No, it will be the same field of technology. LLMs are just a facet of AI, currently. I’m done having this discussion with you, as you do not have the capability to grasp rational thought or have a rational discussion.

And, no. You started the insults. I responded with a couple.

That’s some pretty absurd logic. It is clear there is no point in continuing this discussion, as you are too easily trapped by logical fallacies and are too quick to jump to insults. Hopefully you can take some time to try to grow as a person.

The field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence does not depend on the success of Large Language Models, and LLMs quite possibly have reached their limits. I do not see that as relevant.

I am far from dumb. I got 60/60 problems correct on a proctored Raven’s Progressive Matrices as a teenager. That places my pattern recognition much higher than most of the world’s population. I taught myself C++ when I was six years old in 1997.

You’ve created a strawman by recasting my argument to a point that I am not making. I did not say “trust vendor promises” or “ignore current failures.” I said present-state-only evaluation is a bad way to judge emerging technology.

Engineering forecasting is not limited to closed-form physics. It also uses empirical progress, deployment data, cost curves, failure modes, and observed capability gains. Your pig analogy only works if AI had no demonstrated utility and no measurable improvement. That is plainly false.

Criticize cost, energy use, incentives, etc. Those are real arguments. But “some promises are hype, therefore the whole field is slop and cannot improve” is not analysis. It is just cynicism with insults attached.

I understand the sentiment, but again, sometimes all you want to do is end the suffering. And, suicide does that for you. I don’t advocate for it. I just understand it, having come to that decision in the past.

Yes, I’m going to sleep. It was a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for being kind and curious.

To clarify, I am not suicidal. I was speaking of the past.

Yes, but luckily I love what I do. So, I get paid and I get the benefit of doing what I want to do in life.

And, with my money, I sponsor several impoverished children and give back as much as I can as often as I can.

I also spend a lot of time volunteering at places that help those who struggle with addiction.