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225 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 2 Jul \ on: Transformer based AI will not lead us to AGI/ASI and is just a hype machine AI
I would like to know your thoughts on this.

I won't argue with you that LLMs aren't going to evolve into AGI/ASI; I'd find that highly unlikely. I am not even sure how desirable that outcome would be in the first place. So yes, it feels like it's a

VC money burning shitshow

but now I wonder: besides AGI/ASI, are there things that we can do with all this not-AGI stuff that can be useful? And I have a feeling we can (but I'm not sold.)

This past month I have solved 2 issues for myself that were annoying tf out of me for years:

  1. Clickbait. I hate it. So now I auto-leech an article fed to me and let an LLM summarize it for me. I ignore the title and just read the summary. If I like the summary I will take the trouble to read more. If not, I will ignore it and move on. Saves me a lot of frustration. What I do need is a way to filter the really bad feeds better, like zerohedge because it kinda promotes scammers, which I will not leave to an LLM, but just pre-emptively filter out all promoted articles programatically.
  2. Videos. I hate these even more. Because even at 2x speed where you can't understand what they are mumbling, this shit just takes too much time. So this past week I have transposed around 40 vids that were recommended here on SN using this process, minus the training part. Listened to the one recommended by @plebpoet/@ek, read some parts of others, discarded everything that smelled like bs. My NLP chip is anyway idle otherwise, might as well use it for something useful, like saving my time.

And that is in the end how I think that we (rational human beings that are disconnected from the VC's tit) should approach this. Silver bullets don't exist, and even if I were wrong about that, if there were one, it was probably not something like an LLM. Instead, let's just create value. For ourselves, and for each other. Without some effing subscription. Let them waste money on building new datacenters too. When the bubble bursts, we'll have ourselves extremely cheap compute that can be used for real solutions.

PS: If you want to present facts, link something that proves the fact, please.

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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 2 Jul

Pretty much agree with OP and this response. Matches my experience and understanding of what LLMs can and cannot do.

I discard any bold claims made by Altman. He needs to convince investors.

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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @cy OP 3 Jul

you are right to point out that LLMs have been useful, i should've worded my argument better. I'm disappointed in how LLMs are being advertised as something they're not. As for the PS, I have mentioned relevant papers and benchmarks I think

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 3 Jul

Yeah I share that disappointment.

Re: PS. Oh I just meant literal links. The internet is kinda rotten with tons of opinion that may get upper rank on search engines. Just makes it harder to reconstruct your thinking without them.

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