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251 sats \ 2 replies \ @freetx 6 Feb \ on: A.I. Critic Ed Zitron is Worth a Listen - On the Media Podcast AI
Its simultaneously funny and horrifying to me how the silicon valley crowd.....you know the rational / new atheist crowd....so completely and lazily anthropomorphizes LLMs
They know LLMs don't know anything, yet they still do it. They ascribe all sorts of agency to what is in reality a text prediction algo.
Even when they are being critical of their own products, they use words like "hallucinate" which implies a sort of consciousness that doesn't exist.
Like you, I use these tools all the time and find them very useful. However, I can't decide if the SV crowd is just attempting a cheap con on the public or if they themselves are in fact hoodwinked by their own creation.
Honestly, Altman is just a scam artist. Look at his shitcoin. Its been glossed over due to OpenAI but that dude is a straight up scammer. He's a good one and the fiat system rewards his type of behavior.
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For all the talk and arrogance towards people of faith from this crowd... they are doing many of the same things. I have rarely been impressed by these people. It has long been clear to me that most of them have daddy issues and do believe in God. They just hate him and are grasping at anything that they can replace Him with. Its sad.
I'm not talking about all atheists or agnostics either so save your hate. I completely understand not having faith in a higher power. At times in my life I have been there. I don't have all the answers and I don't think you are stupid for not believing what I believe. Its belief and faith. Not science.
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