The correct comparison to the people saying "trust us, AGI is right around the corner" is not the climate scientists. It's the oil executives.

Some people talk about the enormous progress we will make by siccing a billion PhD-level LLM agents on research problems but I think they are overestimating the marginal gain of the billionth identical LLM agent. They're all ChatGPT. They're all going to say the same thing.

Gotta hand it to you, Elon probably does think things like "acoustics could be improved by 17%" because he IS stupid enough to think that something as broad and complex as acoustics can be qualified linearly, and that there is such a thing as "maximum acoustics" lmao

Peter Raleigh we live in hell

LLms are good at coding because 95% of all coding resources are already published online Most industries & crafts are nowhere close to this ratio of knowledge to published

Some people today are discouraging others from learning programming on the grounds AI will automate it. This advice will be seen as some of the worst career advice ever given. I disagree with the Turing Award and Nobel prize winner who wrote, “It is far more likely that the

I suspect the ‘but you can’t copyright a style’ crowd haven’t read the AI lawsuits. Irrespective of the style question (itself interesting), several lawsuits are based essentially on the following: - There is evidence plaintiff’s work was used in training - Defendant didn’t

always remember everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid

Studios need senior artists. Artists start as junior artists and learn process and industry over the span of years - becoming senior artists. Studios are replacing junior artists with AI. Where will senior artists come from?

We mathematicians have a 50 year head start on this issue! "Why should I learn my times tables when my pocket calculator can do it for me?" It's pretty simple: feel free not to; you'll pay dearly for it later. Same 20 years ago with Calc 1 ["Mathematica can compute this

This is so obvious to me if you have even the slightest idea about what an LLM is

As a Democrats Abroad voter who lives 10 miles from a king - no thanks, it should be No Kings anywhere.

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Some argue that if generative AI companies are infringing copyright, then so are human creators who learn from others’ work. This is not true - as confirmed by the US Copyright Office. The Copyright Office points out that: - Even humans are not allowed to do the kind of

do you guys realize what an LLM is right? A FUCKING MATRIX with wiggly numbers inside, that's it.

We need a new Marshall Plan for shipping air conditioning units to Europe