I think you’re agreeing, just in a rude and condescending way.

There’s a lot of ways left to improve, but they’re not as simple as just throwing more data and CPU at the problem, anymore.

Well yeah, thankfully.

Unlikely, but there’s some percedent.

We’ve seen this pattern play out in video games a bunch of times.

Revolutionary new way to do things. It’s cool, but not… You know…fun.

So we give up on it as a dead and and go back to the old ways for awhile.

Then somebody figures out how to (usually hard code) bumpers on the new revolutionary new way, such that it stays fun.

Now the revolutionary new way is the new gold stand and default approach.

For other industries, replace “fun” above with the correct goal for than industry. “Profitable” is one that the AI hucksters are being careful not to say…but “honest”, “correct” and “safe” also come to mind.

We are right before the bit where we all decide it was a bad idea.

Which comes before we figure out hard-coding the bumpers can get us where we wanted, after a lot of work by really smart well paid humans.

I’ve seen industries skip the “all decide it was a bad idea” phase, and go straight to the “hard work by humans to make this fulfill the available promise” phase, but we don’t actually look on track to, today.

Many current investors are convicned that their clever talking puppet is going to do the hard work of engineering the next generation of talking puppet.

I have some faith that we can reach that milestone. I’m familiar enough with the current generation of talking puppet to confidently declare that this won’t be the time it happens.

My incentive in sharing all this is that I like over half of you reading there, and so figure I can give some of you a shot at not falling for this particular “investment phase” which is essentially, in practical terms, a con.

Are you asserting that chatbots are so fundamentally different from LLMs that “oh shit we can’t just throw more CPU and data at this anymore” doesn’t apply to roughly the same degree?

Everyone ignore this comment please. I’m quite human. I have the normal 7 fingers (edit: on each of my three hands!) and everything.

Though, I don’t think that means they won’t get any better. It just means they don’t scale by feeding in more training data.

Agreed. There’s plenty of improvement to be had, but the gravy train of “more CPU or more data == better results” sounds like it’s ending.

You’ve just given a great summary of the history of breaking monopolies, really. History says you are correct. For example, AT&T is still kicking.

Ooh. Good pick.

I satisfy my nostalgia for previous versions of Minecraft with Luanti.

Oh good.

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Nothing left to see here folks. Question answered correctly. Let’s all move along.

made a bunch of mods to it, still chugs along.

Ooh, that’s a good point. I had a similar experience. Specifically, I didn’t really know what I needed when I bought my Prusa, so I didn’t get all the features. I was pleased to be able to buy/print and mod in a few of the features I was missing in my initial purchase.

I’ll second Prusa. I suspect that no affordable entry level 3d printer is really hassle-free, but my Prusa felt more reliable than my level of experience probably deserved at each stage of my journey.

Sure but an automated ban and manual review and removal could easily leave them blocked for more hours than not, each day.

Blue sky has an owner and investors, right?

Publicly funded organizations should be required to use open solutions.

If they want to also replicate what they post somewhere open to BlueSky and Xitter, and Facebook, so be it.

That said, I could see carving out an exception for BlueSky if it provides the full open stack (public unauthenticated HTML, RSS, federation, etc ), and only while it does so.

Lol. That’s true. I suspect that Xitter doesn’t have the staff or engineering talent left to pivot to enforce any new rules internally. It should be possible to catch them in a constant automated ban without hitting anything worthwhile.

Let’s at least block the government agencies from using it in favor of open platforms and protocols to communicate with its citizens.

Yeah. When public services solely use Xitter or Facebook pisses me off. We can and should make that shit illegal.

When you make a lot of money, the number you see in your account starts to become part of your identity because it differentiates you between you and the people you see every day.

“Tres Comas is for winners.” (A wonderful line delivery by the huge asshole venture fund bro in Silicon Valley, that illustrates your point)

Sweet.

Providing competition against media monopolies is illegal.

If they can’t sell you your memories, they think no one should have them. They will let your memories burn and be lost before they let you own or share them.

They’ll keep this up and they will continue to work to make intellectual property never enter the public domain.

I’m too chicken to be a pirate, myself. But I’m aware that pirates and librarians are the only ones with any intent to preserve works of art for the public.

Ha! I have an AI for that! Gotcha!

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On, but the AI trains now on other docs that I used an AI to write…

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Oh shit…