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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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Do techbros that complain on the Fediverse about people hating on AI realize it isn't just here that hates AI? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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Everyone pretty much hates it, its just here is one of the few places online where money and stupidity can't be waved around frantically to hide that.

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[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The funny thing is, LLMs can be useful for exactly one thing: certain kinds of linguistic tasks. For example, if you were inventing a fictional language, it's probably pretty good for that.

But using it as a general-purpose problem solving tool is beyond stupid.

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

They used them to play chess on kaggle, then the press reported the winner 😂

The obsession is so baffling to anyone who's worked in ML (including language model researchers!)