The AI boom is more overhyped than the 1990s dot-com bubble...

[harkaz]

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/unregulated-open-weight-ai-is-an-invitation-to-disaster-c16c278f

 

Open weights are bad.. really bad. Due to paywall, however, I was unable to find out if they started a pandemic after all.

[Eban]

TLDR: AI and LLM models are NOT smart. It averages all possible answers ie. takes any random crap off the internet and presents it as gospel.

This is worth the almost 8mins of your time

 

 

[harkaz]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq635037g18o

 

"Maybe they actually believe it," Arison said. "Or you could argue they're saying it because it's a great way to gin up more investor support, because the only way to justify these valuations is to actually claim: 'I'm going to take over every industry and I'm going to take over every job, and my AI is going to be doing all that work.'"

 

Let me guess...

[MyPC8MyBrain]

 

[harkaz]

 

For your spare time, an interview that views AI as an 'evolutionary history' event (45:15 and on).

It may be that, no because of its qualities per se but because of the way influential people treat it.

For a technology that has a risk of quality degradation with increased training on synthetic (non-human generated) data (doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07566-y) the prediction of its future performance seems rather difficult. Present capabilities cannot predict future capabilities.

And of course, it's not reasoning, it's predicting numbers that are matched to characters. It can be useful for finding patterns and making educated guesses based on its training corpus.

The decisions of powerful people to treat AI as a deity will however be evolutionary history. And not in a good way.