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pfsalter
·2년 전·discuss
"actively exploring exits" is not the same as "rush to sell". Most startups are actively exploring exits as that's the whole damn point of a startup
pfsalter
·2년 전·discuss
Humans don't really generate text as a series of words. If you've ever known what you wanted to say but not been able to remember the word you can see this in practice. Although the analogy is probably a helpful one, LLMs are basically doing the word remembering bit of language, without any of the thought behind it.
pfsalter
·2년 전·discuss
Back in 2018 [1], at a similar time that there was a lot of moving about and restructuring. I think this is about the time that Google search started going downhill as well

[1] https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
pfsalter
·2년 전·discuss
No idea what this guy is talking about. Big tech are only talking about the existential risks to hide talking about the actual very real risks of how the technology will be misused.
pfsalter
·2년 전·discuss
My interpretation from the paper is that this algorithm is simpler than other options but also worse. So in a professional context you'd use one of those instead
pfsalter
·2년 전·discuss
The biggest problem is that if you're using this in production then it could cause problems. It's not like a traditional outage where you get a load of 503 errors, the system appears to be working correctly but generates gibberish. If you're using this in a chat bot you could be liable for things it's saying...
pfsalter
·2년 전·discuss
Agreed. There's nothing inherent about slaves that is more efficient than paid laborers. It's just cost and time. It can look incredible that the Romans built these huge structures, but the timescales were measured in decades. Same with cathedrals in the middle ages. If you've got 200 years to build something you can really do a great job.