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Turns out, spitting out words when you don't know what anything means or what "means" means is bad, mmmmkay.
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Yeah that's . . . that's bad. As in, not good. As in - it will never be good. With a lot of work and grinding it might be "okay enough" for some tasks some day. That'll be another 200 Billion please.
that's the core problem though, isn't it. They are just predictive text machines, not understanding what they are saying. Yet we are treating them as if they were some amazing solution to all our problems
Well, "we" arent' but there's a hype machine in operation bigger than anything in history because a few tech bros think they're going to rule the world.