alt Hacker NewsBefore 2023 I thought the way Star Trek portrayed humans fiddling with tech and not understanding any side effects was fiction.
After 2023 I realized that's exactly how it's going to turn out.
I just wish those self proclaimed AI engineers would go the extra mile and reimplement older models like RNNs, LSTMs, GRUs, DNCs and then go on to Transformers (or the Attention is all you need paper). This way they would understand much better what the limitations of the encoding tricks are, and why those side effects keep appearing.
But yeah, here we are, humans vibing with tech they don't understand.
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is this new tho, I don't know how to make a drill but I use them. I don't know how to make a car but i drive one.
The issue I see is the personification, some people give vehicles names, and that's kinda ok because they usually don't talk back.
I think like every technological leap people will learn to deal with LLMs, we have words like "hallucination" which really is the non personified version of lying. The next few years are going to be wild for sure.
curiosity (will probably) kill humanity
although whether humanity dies before the cat is an open question