Huge gap for the left not to have an aspirational constitution drafted and floating around out there as a meme. We can’t even say, “hey, look there’s a better way! We took the best bits of all the constitutions in the world, and if we updated things, it could guarantee you x, y, and z.”

No chance of it being enacted of course, but how can we say a better world is possible when we can’t even come up with a rough draft of what it might look like?

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Because of the way society runs, everything we do is tremendously damaging to the environment unfortunately. The upside of that is that people who want to automate labour have a lot of carbon budget to work with e.g. keeping people off roads and out of offices and such. With algorithmic and hardware efficiencies that are already slated we may end up saving energy in the near future.

There’s nothing we can really do to stop these systems from being utilized either, anymore than we can ban gaming hardware (based). But it’s sort of a prisoners dilemma like military spending.

Sorry to be a dickhead. This is just what strong difference of opinion looks. Everyone jumps up my ass about daring to say that “AI” is not just a grift but an actual threat (and opportunity). Like yes, silicon valley are grifters, but that doesn’t preclude them from cooking up useful engineering once in a while.

My whole point is that we need to abandon our immature/dirtbag analysis of this issue and get more professionalized about things or we’re gonna get really rinsed in the 21st century.

Don’t be fatuous. See my other comment here: https://hexbear.net/comment/5726976

we should combat their use and deployment as much as possible

Yeah, great I look forward to the western left leading the butlerian jihad. There’s a reason why Luddites are synonymous with getting jack shit done, and I would expect so called materialists to make the cold calculation necessary to understand this.

It’s obviously not just language models at work here, it’s transformer based architectures in general. Why do you think we can generate video, text, and transcribe audio, and a host of other things like protein discovery all dramatically better than a couple years ago? And this all happened around the same time? Major tech companies are currently folding up their prior machine learning efforts because they’ve been BTFO by this leap in tech. This is something that is absolutely happening in the ML space across the software industry.

The fact that you think I’m even talking about LLMs exclusively is such a myopic view of what’s really going on. There has been an explosion of robotics breakthroughs in the past year alone because of this kind of thing, it’s not just that video, look at what Unitree is doing or any of the other Chinese robotics companies that are dominating this space now.

You guys are the redditors you hate when you come at this with the same energy as a liberal about genocide in Xinjiang or something, like you’ve already made up your mind. Just believe what you want to believe about it. I’m done trying to educate you. Only time will tell and it’s not like I get anything out of it when the goalposts move yet again.

For one thing, it sends a signal that they can directly touch any leader in the world, even if they’re in a bunker.

Enough of these things could theoretically destroy an entire leg of the US nuclear triad and there’s no answer for it yet.

“Facts get tangled up in them”. lol Thanks for conceding my point.

I love being emancipated from my job by a statistical model of the way Reddit users talk but without any of the substance of a Redditor as a person (not much) left, I can ask it to write a Marvel movie script about this situation as I pack up my desk

This is exactly what I’m talking about. This is potentially the biggest technological innovation in a long time and it’s going to completely sideswipe all of you because of this toxic attitude. Separate the players from the actual game.

Thankfully planners in China don’t succumb to this western learned helpless routine or they’d miss out on all the potential gains of the last few decades by sleeping on the extremely obvious potential for factory automation.

Like how can you see this kind of thing and just be like treat printer bazinga boil the oceans waifu etc. Is it perfect yet? No, did it just come out in the past couple years and already obviate decades of expert systems research? Yes, it absolutely did.

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These models absolutely encode knowledge in their weights. One would really be showing their lack of understanding about how these systems work to suggest otherwise.

50% is the number yeah? I wish yall took “no investigation no right to speak” more seriously.

This is so off the mark its not worth my time.

Yeah you’re right! What use is having the entirety of medical knowledge in every language REGURGITATED at you in a context aware fashion to someone who can’t afford a doctor? After all it’s not cognition in the same way that I do it.

How many shitty doctors getting nudged towards a better outcome for real people does this tech need to demonstrate to offset the OCEAN BOILING costs of this tech do you think?

then I guess it’s a good thing that in addition to producing humorous output when prompted with problems it’s ill suited to solve, it can also pass graduate level examinations and diagnose disease better than a doctor.

This fuckgin stupid quantum computer can’t even solve math problems my classical von Neumann architecture computer can solve! Hahahah, this PROVES computers will never be smart. Only I am smart! The computer doesn’t even possess a fraction of my knowledge of anime!!

Wow you’re so smart. We get it already.

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https://disinfowatch.org/disinfo/canadian-killed-sumy-false/

Interesting article claiming that this Canadian officer totally wasn’t owned by a Russian FAB-1500 in Sumy. Instead it goes on to say he actually died of “medical complications” while stationed in Casteau, Belgium. It strangely doesn’t specify what those complication were. Not sure what happened one way or the other, but I do suspect that a patient catching a glide bomb would in fact present with some complications.

You get it! Haha