This is what I dislike most about LLMs “Large language models are manufacturing consensus on a planetary scale. Fine tuned for “helpfulness”, they nod along to our every hunch, buff our pet theories, hand us flawless prose proving whatever we… Read More »Manufactured Consensus
Just wait for it. The first big AI disaster is yet to happen https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-first-big-ai-disaster/
Just read the article. “Then the internet came along, and that internet, naturally enough, was contaminated with fourteen-year-olds. We didn’t realize this because fourteen-year-olds used to be relegated to the corners of society.” “Do I hate Google with the heat… Read More »Don’t Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of This
You always learn on the job https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/
This never occurred to me as a reason but makes so much sense “The accuracy of the search results was reduced, which meant that users needed to do two or three queries to the get the results they would have… Read More »Why Most Sites Are Bad
“We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when “being good at stuff” matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where “what’s useful” is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the… Read More »We Are Ruled by Idiots
Same same, but different, but still same
Nice explanation on quantum computing
Great ideas sometimes have hidden “perks”
LLMs are still not that good.