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retoot is datalove 😘
@Gaolaitch @CiaraNi hey, if it’s not for you it’s not for you.
Pratchett is my favorite author and the inspiration for my username but even so I feel like the plots are—not that they’re bad, more like just kind of secondary.
I read them for the satire and brilliant turns of phrase and to hang out with funny, interesting, wise characters.
But maybe it’s not your kind of humor or you’re looking for something more story driven. That’s cool too.
‘There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things, including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that—’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.’
‘Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—’
‘But they STARTS with thinking about people as things ...’
LLMs will not get us to AGI because you can’t prompt engineer and autocomplete your way to Data from Star Trek or C3PO.
This is fairly self evident but leads to multiple paths of false thinking.
1. LLMs are a scam or overhyped: We can and are getting a lot of value from this technology even if it’s not artificial general intelligence.
2. We can’t achieve AGI: LLMs are just one of many AI approaches and simply the most popular today. OpenAI already has smarter models using different approaches