Hoisted on their own petard
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Can't wait for the UK and France to shred their social safety nets (even more, and faster than they have previoualy) so they can build up their military
Just wanted to say that I'm holding on to this post to read it carefully since you put a lot of work into it. Haven't had the time to give it the attention it deserves. Not to argue, so don't think I'm winding up a rebuttal, I just haven't been able to give it the time it deserves
Good points
I remember all the libs kept saying that stopping aid wouldn't help in the Ukraine conflict, and the Israel conflict.
Obviously they were lying but it is important to point it out
You seem to think that the way these things work is by just simply pulling up chunks of existing code from a big db
Sorry, that is not what I think. It's just that surely there was something very similar enough to your JSON to get the prediction to come up with something that looks similar enough. It's very annoying having to discuss an LLMs intricate details of how it works and then get nitpicked on a concept that I don't think I was saying
For example, just the other day I used it to come up with a SQL table schema based on some sample input JSON data
How likely is it that this JSON structure and corresponding database schema is somewhere in the (immense) training data. Was it novel? New?
Like I just have continual questions about an LLM doing 3NF a priori on novel data.
Like if we just outright say that LLMs are just a better Google or a better IntelliSense that can fetch you existing data that it has seen (which, given that it's basically the entire Internet, across probably the entire existence of the Internet that has been crawled by crawlers and the Internet archive, which is a boggling amount) instead of dressing it up as coming up with NEW AND ENTIRELY NOVEL code like the hype keeps saying, then I'd be less of a detractor
I truly thought that Groupon was peak mania but little did I know.....
Second, itβs already quite good at doing real world tasks, and saves me a ton of time writing boilerplate when coding.
So, that's another thing that I wonder about. All these LLMs are doing is automating boilerplate code, and frankly that's not really innovative. "Programming via stack overflow" was a joke that has been in use for nearly two decades now (shudder) and all the LLM is doing is saving you the ALT+TAB between SO and your text editor, no?
If you're doing a TODO app in Angular or NextJS I'm sure you get tons of boilerplate.
But what about when it comes to novel, original work? How much does that help? I mean really how much savings do you get, and how useful was it?
Nominative Determinism strikes again
Honestly even your idea of having an LLM "update" a curriculum just makes me annoyed. Why does everyone automatically give authority to an LLM on perhaps one of the most important societal functions, instead of trusting teachers to do their job, with the decades of experience that they have in teaching?
Is this what we want? AI generated slop for teaching the next generation because it'll get it done in a day?
Oh shit he's deporting white people now holy shit