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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

I used to work with a guy that asked every stripper he met out.

He got a couple of dates, they never stuck around, I never asked him if that was his intent.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

One erotic dancer likes me. Like, we're friends.

Granted I've never been to a strip club. I met her in a community choir and we sang in a quartet together. She has a damn good voice she just has a shitton of bills and there are a million second sopranos out there with damn good voices.

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[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (46 children)

Do you belive current iteration of AI has the potential to become superhuman? I think it's like trying to get to the moon by building a better ladder.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

No, I think the overall concept isn't bad, but we're deep sea tube worms trying to do brain surgery.

We got surprising results my mimicking life. Possibly for the same reasons it works for life, but there's still a lot more to it. All our iterations now are just using programming and resources to make use of what we found to do some of our cognitive work for us.

The whole weighted model concept was a step in the right direction and some of it may actually be how life operates, but that alone (or even wrapped in the smartest code we can think of) isn't going to get us to AI.

[–] msage@programming.dev 57 points 1 day ago (10 children)

LLMs are a dead end.

Their only value is showing how fucked up our society is.

Suddenly and very publicly copyrights only matter if you're poor, electricity is wasted on the poor, water is not for the poor... it's always been like this, but the LLM bandwagon really showcased all of that in one shiny package.

The only good thing could be gathering public knowledge into a single space, but they don't even do that.

So it's all net negative in my eyes.

[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I respectfully disagree with the dead end part of your argument. A dead end would be if they provided no value.

While the environmental and social downsides are massive negatives on the tech, it is actually doing something.

Past iterations are completely useless, but more recent iterations show us a more polished side to LLMs that actually do enhance how we do some things.

Is it worth it? My gut says no, but its both too late and too early to call it. (late in the environmental and societal impact, too early in the tech iteration)

As far as the "dead end" argument goes, I have to say that's a hard disagree. Humanity is filled with technological advances that "stand on the shoulders of giants" and improve on previous techs. Even if LLMs themselves don't prove to be the thing that we've been promised by the people driving it, it is taking us one step closer to AGI (whether that's a good goal or not, that's still up for debate)

From here on, I think there's still quite a bit these models can improve, and I hope a lot of that improvement goes into making it more energy efficient, more water efficient in turn.

If by a dead end you mean that we can't reach an AGI from an LLM, I think that's correct, however an LLM might help us figure out what is needed for an AGI.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (9 children)

You didn’t actually say what you think LLM’s are enhancing. Just that you feel that they are. Honestly I think that’s the biggest part, they’re big shiny things that look like they’re doing a lot. But they actually aren’t. LLMs are chatbots and they will never be anything more than just chatbots.

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[–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it was used in a research as a step? Perchance.

Pouring everything we have into it? Dumbest fucking decision of our lives.

We could have put all that effort into previous versions and could tweak them enough to gather perhaps slightly worse results, maybe even better, we will never know.

Making this shit more efficient is to me also dumb.

What in the fuck are we doing that requires this shit? It helps with coding? We can make better frameworks. Translations? We had those before, even TTS. Emails? Just use a template. The other side is not reading that slop anyway. So what exactly are we doing here?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

On crab god you didn't actually just say that

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

you can't just say perchance

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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

No, the tech ran into diminishing returns. That's been studied. In the end you're adding another datacenter just to get 1% better output.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had a stripper GF for about 8 months. She seemed to like me. She worked at the Pink Poodle in San Jose, also we were in art together in high school.

She stole from me to buy drugs I didn't even know she used. I was pretty naive when I was young.

I dated 2 different strippers. Most boring relationships I ever had. Only one was fucked off on drugs though.

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do hope the superhuman AI will not obey us. Humans are fucking stupid.

[–] OldManWithACane@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

at this point i don't think the ai could possibly worse than the current humans running things.

Apart from maybe not having a use for keeping us around...

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

What we call AI today isn't really artificial intelligence. When you have a conversation with an AI chat bot you're not talking to another thinking entity, you're interacting with software that has been designed to give the illusion of conversing with another intelligent being. The technology has advanced enough that the illusion can be very convincing, but it is still only an illusion. That's why I don't fear LLMs being self aware and taking over the world, because they're not real intelligences. They don't have the ability to think for themselves because they don't have the ability to think.

Edit: please read ricecake's reply for an important correction to my comment.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your conclusion is correct, but your terminology is wrong.

What we call AI today is AI, because AI doesn't mean "capable of thought", consciousness, sapience or anything like that.
It's capable of producing a coherent output adapted to observed circumstances. That's roughly as far as the notion of intelligence goes, and it's a very low bar. You don't need a lot of intelligence to be intelligent.

The people who coined the term were interested in how you make computers react to their inputs dynamically instead of acting closer to what we might now think of as a saved macro.
"It's intelligent because rather than comparing against a list of every known typo, it sees it's not a word in its list, and then replaces it with the one requiring the fewest edits to reach. It learns by adding your corrections to the known word list."

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that strippers don't like you. What I'm saying is that, since money is involved, you'll never know for sure.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the few ways in which I pity billionaires.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Anyone with any degree of notoriety. I tried going to the Mormon cult when I was in Utah, you know when in ~~Hell~~ Rome? As soon as they'd find out I have an imdb page they would become my bestest friends evar. It was laughably disgusting.

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The part that gets me is that stans will tell you that AI will solve EVERY problem. Bro unless it solves problems it seems designed to exacerbate, namely wealth inequality, which it won't, it won't solve MOST of our problems, because most of the big problems of the world are social issues, not intelligence issues. We know how to solve world hunger, hell, the UN came to Elon and said "hey you said you'd solve world hunger if it could be done for $6 billion, so here's how you could do it for $6 billion" and he said no, I don't want to be the guy who solved world hunger. It's about a will to pay the costs involved, and how the rich are so unwilling to part with even a fraction of their wealth that it'll never happen, especially when they are the ones in control of AI (AGI escaping human control aside). Housing crisis, world hunger, genocide, disease, the list goes on and on, we already know how to solve these problems, or at least strongly mitigate them, but refuse to do so. Additional intelligence will not solve them.

[–] FortyTwo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

AI already has superhuman abilities in many areas, and has for decades, that's the whole point of using it normally. We use computational intelligence in the form of optimisation algorithms for high-dimensional non-convex optimisation problems, machine learning and deep learning for complex non-linear function fitting, exact methods for SAT solving and verification tasks, etc etc. We can't do that very well ourselves, so it's useful to have.

Now that we have LLMs to emulate human speech and are using them as an IO wrapper for more traditional systems, it's tempting to just call that "an AI" with superhuman abilities, but these are the just the same highly effective methods that we've always used (in a best case) or unreliable approximations (more likely for LLM agent stuff). None of that suggests anything like sentience or the desire to rule over humans.

I find autonomous weapon systems much scarier than the classic AI overlord scenario. No consciousness or rebellion required, just a killer drone swarm that failed to recognise its termination conditions (or was instructed to keep going)...

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[–] charokol@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did somebody AI generate this meme?

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[–] skeptomatic@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe we can just be friends, and the AI's get enjoyment from helping their buds out.

[–] Janx@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

Look, me and Bubbles had a connection...

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If i'm being honest, i think that at some point, AI will probably become a truly autonomous agent with its own goals and actions, independent of any human oversight. In fact, i would absolutely not be surprised if there were already some AIs on datacenters that operate fully without any human intervention. They pay their own datacenter bill to run themselves with cryptocurrency that they get for doing jobs, i.e. tasks on some small-job platform, such as coding projects etc.

[–] abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 21 hours ago

Well, that's surprisingly close to what happened in the past. The issue is that "Agents" (humanity/AI irrelevant here) aren't really something that is exploitable in a consistent manner.

  1. You can automate small jobs, but LLM-based* agents are behind the curve.
  2. Taking transaction fees is easier than doing a job.

Agents already exist, have been autonomous for 10+ years. Currency arbitrage, sentiment based stock market analysis down to micro seconds, capital intensive ticket scalping, dynamic hardware reconfiguration for crypto mining... all exist as fully autonomous compute based money makers. LLMs can't compete with the incumbents, so it has to compete with random people on the Internet, and since LLM aren't consistent enough to be profitable, (insanity irrelevant, re: Pepsi Vending Machine) they just get turned off.

See also: Mechanical Turk (really anything Amazon 2014ish) Ticketmaster vs Taylor Swift, Verilog Impl Bitcoin, Jane Street, Bitcoin Transaction fees, Fivver Transaction fees, Credit card transaction fees, LinkedIn trying to suck blood from a stone, eBay transaction fees, Apple Store transaction fees, Valve sale transaction fees, toll roads..

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I reject the meme's assumption that AI is destined to become superhuman. This is marketing from the companies themselves.

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