haliyat

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by haliyat 2y ago
Also, FWIW, I saw a bunch of demos of “token sequence learning” that did a lot of the applications that people have been so excited about with LLMs: producing text descriptions of video and images, text summarization with question answering
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by haliyat 2y ago
There are a ton of different promising AI approaches explored by researchers. When I was at MIT in the early 2010s, when Deep Learning was just taking off, it was seen as one of a suite of new exciting techniques. For example, some of the g
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by haliyat 2y ago
100% agree. You can even see it here on HN. When was the last time you saw a post where someone was excited about something they were actually _doing_ with and LLM? Mostly I see threads about business hype and the periodic conversation star
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by haliyat 2y ago
The backlash is because an interesting technology that is not ready for prime time is being pushed out the door as the solution for every problem that exists. Any dev who’s been around long enough can recognize when a tech strategy is being
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by haliyat 2y ago
The sad truth is that a lot of senior corporate leaders, by the time they get promoted up to that level, if they ever had useful skills (in management or anything else) they’re usually long atrophied away. Since at that level of nearly all
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by haliyat 2y ago
Classic bubble talk “(mumbling behind my hand) yes it’s obvious that our current over-hyped product sucks but that should just make you even more hyped for our next product!” lol. If you believe that I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn you might
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by haliyat 2y ago
I don’t like “confabulate” because has a euphemistically quality. I think most people hear it as a polite word for lying (no matter the dictionary definition). And this is a space that needs, desperately needs, direct talk that regular peop
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by haliyat 2y ago
You’re right about the model’s agency. To be precise I’d say that LLMs spew bullshit but that the bullshitters in that case are those who made the LLMs and claimed (in the worst piece of bullshit in the whole equation) that they are truthfu
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by haliyat 2y ago
At this point there’s a ton of research on how large and long-lasting the negative impacts of layoffs are on company effectiveness (especially in the area of innovation). Eg: https://hbr.org/podcast/2023/12/th
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by haliyat 2y ago
“Bullshit” is the _perfect_ term. Philosopher Harry Frankfurter wrote a book called On Bullshit where he defines the term as speech or writing intended to persuade without regard for the truth. This is _exactly_ what LLMs do. They produce t
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Keywords Studios tried to make a GenAI game found tech unable to replace talent(gamedeveloper.com)
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by haliyat 3y ago
You sound more like an out of touch executive or a recently-converted-Bitcoin-scammer than someone doing real work with this stuff (and yes I saw your top-voted post — as someone who also works in games at a large AAA studio I’ll just say I
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by haliyat 3y ago
+1. I also am increasingly thinking that this generation of AI is going to destroy social media with a flood of what Cory Doctorow calls “botshit”. Only difference is instead of worried about this I’m more <Jack Nicholson head-nodding me
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by haliyat 3y ago
I’m not at all worried about LLMs replacing even low-level engineers. We’ve been using Copilot and ChatGPT for awhile at work now and the most useful applications we’ve found are more analogous to a compiler than a developer. For example, w