TattieNov 1

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.

Show threadTim HergertNov 1

@Tattie I often use this when trying to explain LLMs to people

#AI #LLM #OhNoWereGonnaNeedAnotherTimmy

Show threadMichael GemarNov 2
@cjust @ianturton @Tattie And LLMs *intentionally* use a whole range of linguistic tricks to promote this conflation, tricks that are not at all necessary to actually provide the requested information. (The most egregious form of this is Google’s Notebook ML, which will summarize an article by producing a fake podcast with two fake “hosts” who banter and whose speech has hesitations, breaths, and other feature completely irrelevant to conveying information, and are solely there to make your cognitive machinery implicitly think these are people.)
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@michaelgemar @cjust @ianturton @Tattie I had never heard of this and it sounds like complete hell.

"This podcast could have been a 300 word article" turned on its head in the worst possible way

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Show threadMichael GemarNov 3
@catch56 @cjust @ianturton @Tattie https://podcastle.ai/blog/how-to-use-notebook-lm/
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