• Maxnmy's@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Stop plugging LLMs into everything! They are designed to make up plausible sounding nonsense.

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      LLMs are very useful for synthesizing information, e.g. sumamrizing long texts. Yet every company is actually pushing to use it to create more text, which as you say is at least partly nonsense.

      It shows against the difference of what users need (quick access to accurate information) vs what these companies eant for us (glue your eyeballs to the screen for the longest possible time by e.g. overwhelming you with information, regardless of the quality)

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      7 months ago

      There is a time and place for nonsense, and this isn’t it. I guess it being plausible sounding is the issue.

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            Consciousness is not a computer program. Neurons don’t use binary. I’d love it if we had computers that could do squirrel things perfectly but we don’t even have that.

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              I can appreciate that contemporary neural networks are very different from organic intelligence, but consciousness is most definitely equivalent to a computer program. There are two things preventing us from reproducing it:

              1. We don’t know nearly enough about how the human mind (or any mind, really) actually works, and
              2. Our computers do not have the capacity to approximate consciousness with any meaningful degree of accuracy. Floating point representations of real numbers are not an issue (after all, you can always add more bits), but the sheer scale and complexity of the brain is a big one.

              Also, for what it’s worth, most organic neurons actually do use binary (“one bit”) activation, while artificial “neurons” use a real-valued activation function for a variety of reasons, the biggest two being that (a) training algorithms require differentiable models, and (b) binary activation functions do not yield a lot of information per neuron while requiring effectively the same amount of memory.

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    7 months ago

    Zuck: perpetrates more obvious invasive stalker shit

    Also Zuck: “Team, why do our engagement numbers keep going down? This is unacceptable, team.”

    high-pitched nasal screeching

  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Yeah, but I can leave the site alone and go on with my life. Sorry to anyone who is required to use either or both for work or whatever