Charlie StrossNov 14

Reminder that EVERYTHING Anthropic or OpenAI announce in public is propaganda designed to boost their market cap when they hit the IPO they're aiming for.

It's marketing, folks. There is no intelligence behind the artifice, it's just spicy autocomplete and hucksters in $5000 suits trying to pick your boss's pocket.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115548040527129225

Show threadAndré PolykanineNov 14
@cstross I mean, you have right to have your opinions as all of us, but saying that AI is "autocomplete… is too much. An autocomplete would never suggest new names, new implementation and architectural ideas, and so on, and so forth. Yes, it's not "intelligence" as we perceive our own intelligence, but not autocomplete either.
Show threadDrew
@menelion @cstross LLMs don't operate on word level, but rather token level. it will give tokens likely to go together. It can't come up with something completely new, like something that is very unlikely to have ever been tried before (where innovation usually is) and probably never will
Nov 14 at 2:21pmWeb