Agreed!

“Just a joke” is the last bastion of cowards. Own your crappy opinions. You clearly think these things are something more than they are.

You a fan of Trump too? Do you just pick things to like based on how much they suck?

I remember when ads were considered a bad way to create a business model for a website. Now everyone just tries to stuff more ads into everything like they were doing with cheese in pizzas in the 90s.

You were doing this bullshit all over the thread too in various forms. But I’m sure it’s “just a joke” now.

How ironic you accuse “them” of dehumanizing people.

Dude, you’re up two posts from here saying how people are LLMs.

I understand wanting to walk that back, but you did post it.

“You could imagine a world where…”

Sure, I can imagine a lot of things, and a lot of them will never materialize.

This anecdote has the makings of a “men will literally x instead of going to therapy” joke.

On a more serious note though, I really wish people would stop anthropomorphisizing these things, especially when they do it while dehumanizing people and devaluing humanity as a whole.

But that’s unlikely to happen. It’s the same type of people that thought the mind was a machine in the first industrial revolution, and then a CPU in the third…now they think it’s an LLM.

LLMs could have some better (if narrower) applications if we could stop being so stupid as to inject them into places where they are obviously counterproductive.

This dumbass is convinced that humans are chatbots likely because chatbots are his only friends.

Can an LLM do something similar despite having never seen anything that isn’t a word or number?

No.

People are generally shit at understanding probabilities and even when they have a fairly strong math background tend to explain probablistic outcomes through anthropomorphism rather than doing the more difficult and “think-painy” statistical analysis that would be required to know if there was anything more to it.

I myself start to have thoughts that balatro is purposefully screwing me over or feeding me outcomes when it’s just randomness and probability as stated.

Ultimately, it’s easier (and more fun) for us to think that way and it largely serves us better in everyday life.

But these things are entire casinos’ worth of probability and statistics in and of themselves, and the people developing them want desperately to believe that they are something more than pseudorandom probabilistic fancy autocomplete engines.

A lot of the folks at the forefront of this have paychecks on the line. Add the difficulty of getting someone to understand how something works when their salary depends on them not understanding it to the existing inability of humans to reason probabilistically and the AGI from LLM delusion becomes near impossible to shake for some folks.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this AI hype bubble yields a cult in the end.

Yep 100% agree.

Both “free trade” and big stupid blanket tariffs are extremist positions and it’s America so they’re the only positions discussed.

I think there’s room for reasonable tariff policy, but unfortunately the US is a nuance-free land full of extremists so Trump’s terrible implementation will make tariffs radioactive for another generation if there’s a large public backlash.

It doesn’t need to be absolutely free trade with slavers or tariff man hell. We could raise the standard of living by allowing free trade but imposing tariffs – or even outright bans on imports – from places legalizing slave labor and other close to slave labor conditions. But obviously none of that fits into Trump’s dumbass worldview.

If you have Hulu or sail the seven seas, check out “The Dropout” which is a mini-series about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes.

Nintendo shop regularly runs deals similar to Steam. Usually at around the same times of year. Same with PlayStation. I run games on all three platforms. You have to be kind of a sucker these days to buy a game at full price when it’s first released. But none of what I said makes $80 games reasonably priced.

When I used those things, I absolutely understood why a CEO would want those to be the future. It’s everything they’re looking for: a strident, confident yes man machine who will produce without consternation any kind of spin (unethical or not) to any kind of gibberish content requested.

The obsession with conversational interfaces likely stems from two places: sci-fi and CEOs (and other executive, businessy types) who are used to ordering people around.

Lol neither are worth that much.

And despite all of its other problems, it’s still not even profitable.

CLIs are almost always magnitudes more expressive than their feeble, derivative GUIs.

Yeah, maybe it’s a case of software Stockholm syndrome or something.