confused-badger
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confused-badger
6mo ago
The world is so much bigger than software and it's a huge shame that the last 15-20 years of social media company success stories have narrowed smart, motivated peoples' imaginations so much.
confused-badger
6mo ago
Maybe you need to have a 115 IQ to do it? It’s by far the easiest part of my job.
confused-badger
6mo ago
I become more and more skeptical that the current LLM approach to AI is going to get us close to AGI, let alone ASI, whatever that means. The models are just clearly not that smart, and if you don’t realize this it’s because (1) you are not that smart or (2) you’re using it in the domain that the architecture happens to be good at, which is language (which includes chatting but also programming and some formal math.)
People are super language-oriented and so are overly impressed/distracted when something can do human language so well. We’re just dazzled by language use, and that massively biases our perception.
The technical field most dazzled by LLMs is programming, which is also basically just a translation job. Society has been under the misapprehension that being a computer translator is a super hard and intellectual job, partly because it has paid so well in the past couple of decades. This is just because there aren’t any people who are natively bilingual in English and computer, in the same way there are lots of people who natively bilingual in English and Spanish. Like an English teacher in China, people were able to arbitrage this lack of supply, and people mistook the existence of this arbitrage as evidence that the field is super difficult.
If you are in a technical field outside of this it is very obvious, and has been for a long time, that the current architecture is bad and progress stalled. A bunch of programmers will lose their status, like so many loser English teachers in China, but beyond that the current path isn’t going to change much.
This is very confusing, I’ve never experienced or heard of a woman not showing up for a date? What’s the context here, it just sounds fake.
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