The funny thing is, I don't think endlessly scaling LLMs is likely the end all of AI. I think there's a legitimate conversation about what other kinds of AI could be added to the mix and how silly it is for AI companies to slash basic research in favor of scaling.

But I can't even have those conversations because everyone is coming up with the most braindead criticisms of LLMs imaginable.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sorceressofmathematics/116342229402330815

Though another interesting part of this story is that the design of the first punch card reader was inspired by the loom, so maybe Marx was poetically more right than he could possibly have imagined.

*new computer technology*

*looks inside*

*it's a loom*

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sorceressofmathematics/116341285452969607

It's interesting to note that when Marx argued that technology would automate labor and usher in an era of abundance, he was talking about the automatic loom. Modern computers would have completely blown his mind, let alone AI or robotics.