David GerardOct 22

When anyone says "LLMs as normal technology" see if it's actually any better than "blockchains as normal technology" or "NFTs as normal technology"

this is the excuse crew trying to calm the increasingly pissed off crowd.

"AI" is not a "normal technology". it is a *political project*. its proponents are extremely explicit about their goals with it. the people claiming we should just treat this political project as "normal technology" are shilling.

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@davidgerard
I'd be open to this framing if anyone who used it actually followed through. Sure, so we burn enough energy to power a town and/or pay more money than all of our commercial IDE and build tool licenses combined, and what we get is auto complete that can guess in bigger chunks, but is sometimes completely wrong. By any "normal technology" metric this would never be worth it.
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@wakingrufus
Great description of (so-called AI) LLMs!: “auto complete that can guess in bigger chunks, but is sometimes completely wrong.” 😁
And so true: “By any "normal technology" metric this would never be worth it.”😐

@davidgerard