I think AI is neat.

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    8 months ago

    They’re predicting the next word without any concept of right or wrong, there is no intelligence there. And it shows the second they start hallucinating.

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      They are a bit like you’d take just the creative writing center of a human brain. So they are like one part of a human mind without sentience or understanding or long term memory. Just the creative part, even though they are mediocre at being creative atm. But it’s shocking because we kind of expected that to be the last part of human minds to be able to be replicated.

      Put enough of these “parts” of a human mind together and you might get a proper sentient mind sooner than later.

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        Exactly. Im not saying its not impressive or even not useful, but one should understand the limitation. For example you can’t reason with an llm in a sense that you could convince it of your reasoning. It will only respond how most people in the used dataset would have responded (obiously simplified)

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          You repeat your point but there already was agreement that this is how ai is now.

          I fear you may have glanced over the second part where he states that once we simulated other parts of the brain things start to look different very quickly.

          There do seem to be 2 kind of opinions on ai.

          • those that look at ai in the present compared to a present day human. This seems to be the majority of people overall

          • those that look at ai like a statistic, where it was in the past, what improved it and project within reason how it will start to look soon enough. This is the majority of people that work in the ai industry.

          For me a present day is simply practice for what is yet to come. Because if we dont nuke ourselves back to the stone age. Something, currently undefinable, is coming.

          • What i fear is AI being used with malicious intent. Corporations that use it for collecting data for example. Or governments just putting everyone in jail that they are told by an ai

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              I’d expect governments to use it to craft public relation strategies. An extension of what they do now by hiring the smartest sociopaths on the planet. Not sure if this would work but I think so. Basically you train an AI on previous messaging and results from polls or voting. And then you train it to suggest strategies to maximize for support for X. A kind of dumbification of the masses. Of course it’s only going to get shittier from there on out.

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            I didn’t, I just focused on how it is today. I think it can become very big and threatening but also helpful, but that’s just pure speculation at this point :)

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      I have a silly little model I made for creating Vogoon poetry. One of the models is fed from Shakespeare. The system works by predicting the next letter rather than the next word (and whitespace is just another letter as far as it’s concerned). Here’s one from the Shakespeare generation:


      KING RICHARD II:​

      Exetery in thine eyes spoke of aid.​

      Burkey, good my lord, good morrow now: my mother’s said


      This is silly nonsense, of course, and for its purpose, that’s fine. That being said, as far as I can tell, “Exetery” is not an English word. Not even one of those made-up English words that Shakespeare created all the time. It’s certainly not in the training dataset. However, it does sound like it might be something Shakespeare pulled out of his ass and expected his audience to understand through context, and that’s interesting.

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        Wow, sounds amazing, big probs to you! Are you planning on releasing the model? Would be interested tbh :D