AI chronicles
the ongoing artificial intelligence story, its pros, cons, and challenges
AI chronicles
the small community of people who do discuss radical AI futures often does so in an excessively “sci-fi” tone (featuring e.g. uploaded minds, space exploration, or general cyberpunk vibes). I think this causes people to take the claims less seriously, and to imbue them with a sort of unreality. To be clear, the issue isn’t whether the technologies
... See moreDario Amodei • Machines of Loving Grace1
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
Illuminating answer (that matches what I am hearing from others) about why AIs don’t come with release notes: no one knows well what new models are capable of doing well or badly in advance.
It is why it is so important to test on your own use cases. Don’t just listen to others.
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Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
Table saws
I guess I’m a little more LLM-skeptical than your average geek, but I read the list of features and thought: Would this sort of thing accelerate my mobile-device-upgrade latency, which at the moment is around three years? Um, no. Anyone’s? Still dubious.
Quite possibly I’m wrong. Maybe there’ll be a wave of influencers raving about how AI/GG
... See moreongoing by Tim Bray • LLMM
LLMs são mesmo necessários? E mesmo que sejam, seriam o selling point pra fazer alguém trocar de dispositivo?
LLMs are a moat, but for how long?
An LLM vendor like OpenAI isn’t an aggregator, As far as I can tell.
• An aggregator leverages a monopoly on demand to commodify supply .
• Whereas a traditional industrial monopoly leverages a monopoly on supply to extract $ from demand .
LLM vendors seem more like a traditional industrial monopoly. Like an
... See moreGordon Brander from Subconscious • LLMs and Information Post-Scarcity
We’ve automated the hands. We’re automating the heads. What’s left is the heart: presence, commitment, and care. That’s the third labor — relational labor — the work machines can’t replicate because they can’t relate in the truest sense of the word.
What happens to our trust in media when our capacity to generate it artificially improves to the point where we can produce indistinguishable fakes?