One of my favourite LinkedIn cranks is a consultant guy who suggested an addendum to Einstein that "Has the potential to impact the future: E=mc²+AI". Because, so he says, "This equation highlights the potential for AI to unlock new forms of energy, enhance scientific discoveries and revolutionize various fields such as healthcare, transportation and technology".
It got a lot of traction with the algorithm due to lots of comments to the effect of "What??", but every time I pass by the screenshot in my photoroll, I have a little giggle about it.
Oh boy is right. If BITCOIN is SPECulation to distribute cryptographic transactions on a blockchain pre AI, CANONIC is a SPECification to distribute WORK contracts with your AI on a blockchain. So BITCOIN=SPECulation. While CANONIC COIN=SPECification… of WORK!
Eleven years seems like a very long time to be a Philly street dog - kinda makes you wonder if it wasn't adopted by somebody in the interrim before ending up with the girl somehow.
I think this is the elephant in the roomt - in terms of quantifiable goals, Iran is winning this thing. I think they're going to want to punish the US and Israel to an extent where they will be reluctant to feel this particular sting again, and they want to assert their ability to control the strait. And it's working! They're clearly demonstrating that the US cannot simply decide when this is over and dictate terms, because Iran can pinch off an important vein of global commerce and probably sustain that pressure for far longer than it can be tolerated by other economies.
They've already gotten one concession in terms of this temporary sanctions relief, even as Trump frames it as a domestic emergency measure and repeatedly declares total victory each day of the conflict. They also got him to back off on targeting their power plants by promising to retaliate in kind against the power infrastructure of US aligned states in range.
I think the US has the ability to beat Iran in a fight, but it does not have the preparation or the resolve to do so at this time, because this is some halfcocked nonsense plan with amorphous goals that they thought would be over in a week.
The rejection is based on the dishonesty of explicitly committing to standard A and then knowingly violating it, not on LLM use as such. I think that's pretty fair, considering that everyone could have just chosen B if they wanted to.
Sure, I'm just pointing out that the 2% headline figure is very conservative if not misleading as a far greater unknown number in group B will have done exactly the same (which I doubt ICML or those submitting papers actually want). This is probably a first step in clamping down on anyone doing this.
A boss at my former job would constantly generate AI images and send them to the graphics guy for him to make 'adjustments' and no matter how many times the graphics guy explained that these images are much more trouble to clean up than for him to make a new one from scratch by hand, he seemed unwilling to understand and kept spamming slop at him.
I really felt for the guy the first time I was in a meeting and somebody had generated their own project roadmap recommendations. This type of behaviour introduces so much noise and time waste in the system, I would love to know how it shapes up next to the benefits.
Don't even get me started on people AI generating personal farewell notes for retiring coworkers or whatnot.
LLMs by definition cannot deduce, because they cannot not know or think. There's guard rails to try to make it more correct than wrong, but ultimately it's about which words seem like they would fit when coming after your words.
It's a neat trick, but the mind wants to ascribe meaning and reason to words that sound meaningful and reasonable, but these words do not come from a thinking mind with intent and interiority. It would be much more interesting if they did, but when and if that does happen, it won't be from an LLM as we know them today.
If you tell LLM "explain X and cite reliable sources" would that then be more accurate?
Maybe it's the way the users are asking the questions, and perhaps prompting in the right way will lead to better (more accurate) results and reduce hallucinations?
I think the fundamental problem is that humans use language to refer to things and constructs that exist and have various relationships with eachother in meatspace, whereas LLMs use words solely as things that exist in relation to other words. That's inherently lossy if you're trying to make it fetch and regurgitate information encoded in the former format.
While the ability to interface with a computer program in plain language is the really interesting thing here IMO, it also comes with a number of problems baked in that are worse than person-to-person transfers of text-speech.
Your monkey brain is actually quite good at figuring out if other monkeys are bullshitting you and what they mean, because you can make use of a vast number of small cues and unconscious tells in what they say and how they say it - even in writing. With an LLM, you cannot do this because it will always have the same confident can-do zeal with everything you ask it for.
That sounds insufferable and I'm sorry your coworker and your bosses have gotten this hypnotized. There are actual use cases, but this type of productivity cargo cult drives me up the wall.
At least if they were into filling the office with magic crystals, it would be decorative and easily ignored. This is just forcing people to spend a bunch of tokens in a dull ritual to make the line go up.
They make it their business to replace resignees with loyalists. In terms of generating friction for the regime, it makes more sense to make your stand in office and make them fire you, but that carries a lot of personal/career costs too. Which I suspect is why people choose walking away instead.
I read somewhere that Australia has 10-14 days of gasoline supply - I have no idea how many countries run this tight and exposed, but it seems to be surprisingly widespread - it's wild how the global economy runs on just-in-time shipping of energy imports.
It got a lot of traction with the algorithm due to lots of comments to the effect of "What??", but every time I pass by the screenshot in my photoroll, I have a little giggle about it.
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