@davidgerard I think this is where a lot of the unaccepted hype of the various LLM platforms have muddied the waters.
they've done such a job of linking any form of machine learning with their own slop machines that even though they're not the same thing, in normal people's head's they've become conflated.
so when we hear about machine learning making some advancement the various AI-bros leap on it as justification for their own slop even though the connection in practical senses is tenuous.
@davidgerard just because your shit barn is also made out of bricks doesn't mean its the same thing as Notredam cathedral.
And just because some scientists used machine learning to work out protein properties doesn't mean your useless LLM deserves any of the credit.
@davidgerard so it has some good uses is essentially "I heard someone used AI to do something good"
when it practice it wasn't AI in how we're being sold it at all... and it's frustrating as all hell when it's clearly messing with everything.
@8bitarcher I've heard so many times random joes pretending to be experts, defending LLM companies by claiming "AI finds new drugs to cure lethal diseases" I'm even tired to explain to them, that no, LLM are NOT used in scientific research and no, researchers using purpose-specific, NON-LLM, machine learning to some extent isn't computers and big tech megacorpos magically "finding cures" and saving people's livesā¦
These people are full of bad faith and don't care about factsā¦
David Gerard
8-bit Archer
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