Not sure if this is the best community to post in; please let me know if there’s a more appropriate one. AFAIK Aii@programming.dev is meant for news and articles only.

  • zd9@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    AI is just a tool like anything else. What’s the saying again? "AI doesn’t kill people, capitalism kills people?

    I do AI research for climate and other things and it’s absolutely widely used for so many amazing things that objectively improve the world. It’s the gross profit-above-all incentives that have ruined “AI” (in quotes because the general public sees AI as chatbots and funny pictures, when it’s so much more).

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Are you talking about AI or LLM branded as LLM?

      Actual AI is accurate and efficient because it is designed for specific tasks. Unlike LLM which is just fancy autocomplete.

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        Even llms are useful for coding, if you keep it in its auto complete lane instead of expecting it to think for you

        Just don’t pay a capitalist for it, a tiny, power efficient model that runs on your own pc is more than enough

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        LLMs are part of AI, so I think you’re maybe confused. You can say anything is just fancy anything, that doesn’t really hold any weight. You are familiar with autocomplete, so you try to contextualize LLMs in your narrow understanding of this tech. That’s fine, but you should actually read up because the whole field is really neat.

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          Literally, LLMs are extensions of the techniques developed for autocomplete in phones. There’s a direct lineage. Same fundamental mathematics under the hood, but given a humongous scope.

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            LLMs are extensions of the techniques developed for autocomplete in phones. There’s a direct lineage

            That’s not true.

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              How is this untrue? Generative pre-training is literally training the model to predict what might come next in a given text.

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        3 days ago

        Unlike LLM which is just fancy autocomplete.

        You might keep hearing people say this, but that doesn’t make it true (and it isn’t true).