Comment by MrBuddyCasino
8 hours ago
I don't know how anyone can call the most amazing invention in computer science of the last 20 years "copyright infringement factories". We went from the ST:NG ship computer being futuristic tech to "we kinda have this now". Its like calling cars "air pollution factories", as if that was their only purpose and use.
A fundamentally anti-civilisational mindset.
You can see both sides, critzise how its done and still wanting to have the result of it.
Its a little bit hypocritic which often enough ends in realism aka "okay we clearly can't fight their copyright infridgments because they are too powerful and too rich but at least we can use the good side of it".
Nothing btw. enforces all of this to happen THAT fast besides capitalism. We could slow down, we could do it better or more right.
I'm sorry, but you're acting obtuse if you pretend you don't know why they're being called that.
LLMs are amazing technology. It's crazy to interact with something that knows a lot about effectively everything that's ever been written, as well as mimicking human cognition to a large degree.
What LLMs are NOT is intelligent in the same way as a human, which is to say they are not "AGI". They may be loosely AGI-equivalent for certain tasks, software development being the poster child. LLMs have no equivalent of "judgement", and they lie ("hallucinate") with impunity if they don't know the answer. Even with coding, they'll often do the wrong thing, such as writing tests that don't test anything.
It seems likely that LLMs will be one component of a truly conscious AI (AGI+), in the same way our subconscious facility to form sentences is part of our intelligence. We'll see how quickly the other pieces arrive, if ever.
The people pushing this technology, that accelerates climate change, have lobbied the government to circumvent typical roadblocks created by society to limit sensationalist development. Incidentally, the same people who talk about how dangerous AI will be for society, but don't worry, they're going to be the one to deliver it safely.
Now, I don't believe AI will ever amount to enough to be a critical threat to human life, you know, beyond the immense amounts of wasted energy they propose to convert into something more useful, like a market crash or heat and noise, or both.
Not sure how you can call someone opposed to any of that "anti-civilisational" matter-of-factly.