I studied Artificial Intelligence for four years, and I am not touching LLM AIs with a ten-foot pole.
It's not really about the insane electricity demands, the water usage, tho that's a good reason. It's not even, if I'm honest, about the disastrous effect on the sum of all human art and knowledge.
It's because a) I've studied enough AI to know it's a trick, a sort of linguistic illusion, and b) I've studied enough everything else to understand that I'm not immune to such illusions.
@Tattie I often use this when trying to explain LLMs to people
@cjust @Tattie I am reminded of an old IKEA advert... it uses the standard emotional manipulation techniques of an advert to make the audience feel sympathy for an inanimate object, and them immediately turns that around and mocks them for falling for such a cheap trick.
Directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malcovich, Adaptation, countless Levis commercials)
I never really understood why I need to buy something just so I can throw away the old. I'm still using my 40+ year old desk lamp, it works just fine with a LED-bulb. I might have to change the button soon but at least it's an option, not like the new ones where if something breaks I have to throw the whole thing. For example the new LED desk lamp we bought 10 years ago has lost at least 50% of the brightness and there is no way of changing the LED.
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