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Hence why openAI seems now to want to stall IPO as long as they can...

And you are right, they singlehandedly are most of the problem despite not even being in the strongest position even if you are bullish on AI.

He is technically correct, the best kind of correct!

Volumes are going to be down, but they want the same revenue, so they increase unit price, comfy in the reality that it will still be, percentage wise, not worth it for most to care. Will it make it unaffordable for some? Probably not appreciably more than the hardware is doing all by itself.

So in short, it is just because they can.

Not just that, but had to be born after 1945 to be considered "Boomer". Clearly time travelers

In the same way it’s accurate to call the human brain a prediction machine

I have seen no evidience presented that the human brain is simply making statistical predictions.

This seems to be a relatively new thing some people are asserting, because they see the LLM behavior and have decided that absolutely it looks so human like it must act the same, and since we understand that LLM is fundamentally statistical prediction of a token, then obviously human consciousness must operate on the same principle.

Even the latest models generate the sort of mistakes that stem from the fundamental limitations. A lot has been done in some contexts for making that not matter so much (e.g. in software development, the strategy is that code may have some verifiable goal, and the models can let the mistakes fly, then take the feedback from the goal, and iterate more). So it still can be very useful, but clearly it isn't human like because of some of the completely dumb behaviors that result from it not actually thinking about it. It is at it's best when either mistakes don't matter (particularly fiction) or at least first mistakes don't matter and can be automatically reconciled with facts.

By nature, the meme examples will get better because everyone talks about it and suddenly having all that discussion in training data and in search results, the statistics fix. However the operating principle behind them remains the same.

LLM output makes everything stupider, even LLMs.

Sadly, often.

It is sticking the most common content into a blender and dispensing the result according to a few tweaks. I have seen a lot of people eat that up.

Same reason why there's so much money in low-effort mobile gaming.

It's one of the things that really sucks, people with creative talent that would otherwise be rewarded and have their vision shared for lack of too many other options being drowned out by a flood of no-effort slop that the masses are just fine with.

For reference, that was the year Vista came out with a minimum memory of 512MB, with 1GB suggested.

We had a lot of weird all at once.

Lots of death and isolation. Economy all screwed up with a flood of cash to try to keep things level. Trump's sore loser behavior validated just the worst behavior (it is always there, but usually leaders moderates it when it rears its ugly head, Trump fanned the flames instead). Putin continued his aggression against Ukraine, except this time Ukraine held its ground.

Every big event didn't require COVID, just a bunch of long burning issues bubbling up at once.

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Allow me to introduce the incels.

Hard to get that experience when no one wants to be around you at all, let alone naked.

For example, everyone knew the gallows were for Mike pence, but that doesn't mean that Mike pence was doing the wrong thing... In that occasion....