meduka
20d ago
I know a lot of people reading this are AI evangelist. Where did I go wrong? What the fuck do people see in this shit?
You used a "4B" model which is about an order of magnitude below the level where I find AI starts to be useful for more than just single line autocomplete. But most of the evangelists aren't using 30-40B class local models, either, they're using frontier models which are scaled another order of magnitude, and usually closer to two. Capabilities obviously aren't linear with model size and one can get surprising results from small models at times, but "small" here usually doesn't mean "fits on your phone".
I have no idea what the market is for shitty, small models. Well, in Gemma's case I think it might be for on-device inference to save Google compute costs, and "fits on your phone" is a core constraint and market demand never really factored into it.
This is a pretty interesting debate as it demonstrates a real fracture point between the "alt-right" NRx folk (such that still exist) and the "trads" who might otherwise be allies of convenience. We can joke about 13/52 and find common ground on e.g., the execution of rapists, murderers, and child molesters; plausibly agree on the utility of racial profiling, nativism and remigration, and broadly reject blank slatism in all its forms -- but god forbid (and, I suppose, God forbids) we proactively prune a few fetuses with extra chromosomes.
The religious right will, of course, construct their Jenga tower of cope re: why their ideology doesn't immediately collapse back down into leftist slave morality, but ultimately, they protect them because they are pitiful, and that is indistinguishable from progressivism. I have no faith that these "allies" would be willing to bar the gates and sink the ships in a Camp of the Saints-style dystopia; it's all just LARP.
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