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Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
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Recent LLMs are very capable at doing almost all simple computing tasks. At some point in the future, we will have AI that is more generally useful than current LLMs. If and when we have truly general purpose AI, it could benefit humanity in countless ways. It could also continue to cause harm. We can’t know for sure.
I know, for sure.
You truly don’t, though. You believe it. That doesn’t make it true. We do not have enough data to know what the future holds regarding AI.
Full self driving next year.
We already have it
Sure you do. In your colony on Mars.
How fucking gullible can you get, jfc.
I’ve been in vehicles with self-driving, and they perform better than the average driver in every situation I’ve encountered.
You seem like a really angry person. I’m sorry your experiences in life are so miserable.
Wow, even a personal anecdote! That's, like, irrefutable! (since you didn't really understand what I'm saying, I'll clarify - this was a Musk/Tesla reference)
Listen, next year I'm curing cancer and solving world hunger, thus making ""AI"" obsolete. Care to invest?
Until then, it's best if we evaluate technology at its current standing. Which is garbage generator that requires way too much resources.
A personal anecdote is all that’s needed to refute a blanket statement like the implication that self-driving does not exist yet.
Again, it seems you are just a really upset and negative person. I feel bad for you. It would be very easy to have a pleasant discussion or debate on the topic.
If we only ever evaluated technology on its present state of being, we wouldn’t have planes for instance. That’s not a really sound methodology. “It doesn’t work now. Therefore, it should be abandoned.” Like, what?
Though, perhaps what you mean is “we shouldn’t be investing billions in unproven technology.” That, I agree with. I think most would.
It seems that youre just a really dumb and uneducated person. I feel bad for you.
Now that we've got ad-hominems out of the way, let's get back on the topic.
Damn, I really thought I explained the self-driving thing, but it just bounced off you, didn't it. Reaping the effects of AI so soon, huh.
If you think that's how design and engineering works, you're either 12, or really into LLMs.
Look, I'll put it really simply for you. I know that if I throw a ball forwards, it will land in front of me. I call predict it, and I can calculate it. It's based on established laws of physics.
If people, who want to sell me a pig, tell me it's going to fly next year after I buy it, based on the fact that it learned to walk, that is not a prediction based "on sound methodology".
Enjoy your slop, it's not going to get any better, and it's going to get ALOT more expensive very soon. That's a prediction, after evaluating current technology.
I am far from dumb. I got 60/60 problems correct on a proctored Raven’s Progressive Matrices as a teenager. That places my pattern recognition much higher than most of the world’s population. I taught myself C++ when I was six years old in 1997.
You’ve created a strawman by recasting my argument to a point that I am not making. I did not say “trust vendor promises” or “ignore current failures.” I said present-state-only evaluation is a bad way to judge emerging technology.
Engineering forecasting is not limited to closed-form physics. It also uses empirical progress, deployment data, cost curves, failure modes, and observed capability gains. Your pig analogy only works if AI had no demonstrated utility and no measurable improvement. That is plainly false.
Criticize cost, energy use, incentives, etc. Those are real arguments. But “some promises are hype, therefore the whole field is slop and cannot improve” is not analysis. It is just cynicism with insults attached.