Comment by nutjob2
2 days ago
> I’m not saying future computing won’t be probabilistic
Current and past computing has always been probabilistic in part, doesn't mean it will become 100% so. Almost all of the implementationof LLMs is deterministic except the part that is randomized. Its output is used in the same way. Humans combine the two approaches as well. Even reality is a combination of quantum uncertainty at a low level and very deterministic physics everywhere else.
> We're moving away from deterministic mechanicism, a world of perfect information and perfect knowledge, and walking into one made of emergent unknown behaviors, where instead of planning and engineering we observe and hypothesize.
The hype machine always involves pseudo-scientific babble and this is a particularly cringey example. The idea that seems to be promoted, that AI will be god like and therein we'll find all truth and knowledge is beyond delusional.
It a tool, like all other tools. Just like we see faces in everything we're also very susceptible to language (especially our own, consumed and regurgitated back to us) from a very neat chatbot.
AI hype is borderline mass hysteria at this point.
“The hype machine always involves pseudo-scientific babble and this is a particularly cringey example.”
Thanks for confirming. As crazy as the chatbot fanatics are, hearing them talk makes ME feel crazy.