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What if you pit AI to talk to each other? You could waste billions autonomously

Well, it could change the meaning of the prompt unintentionally.

The real challenge is that this technology is not universally accessible so people aren't learning effective use-case and prompt strategies.

Whilst 1B models are easy enough to run and have plenty of use, nobody can teach this, its a nightmare on Windows and most universities have collapsed under their own weight. Half my comp sci profs didn't know python 10 years ago and I know for a fact this hasn't improved (hiring developers -- not fun).

Seem to be AI generated since you can usually trick it into complying.

So I could make Firefox call me the Clit Commander?

God speed, Rook Ash and kamenlady

That's how they use up your tokens though

They're just making excuses for the fact that no one can work out how to make money with AI except to sell access to it in the vague hope that somebody else can figure something useful to do with it and will therefore pay for access.

I can run an AI locally on expensive but still consumer level hardware. Electricity isn't very expensive so I think their biggest problem is simply their insistence on keeping everything centralised. If they simply sold the models people could run them locally and they could push the burden of processing costs onto their customers, but they're still obsessed with this attitude that they need to gather all the data in order to be profitable.

Personally I hope we either run into AGI pretty soon or give up on this AI thing. In either situation we will finally stop talking about it all the time.

Inference costs are very, very low. You can run Mistral Small 24B finetunes that are better than GPT-4o and actually quite usable on your own local machine.

As for training costs, Meta's LLAMA team displace their emissions with environmental programs, which is more green than 99.9% of any company making any product you use

TLDR; don't use ClosedAI use Mistral or other foss projects

EDIT: I recommend cognitivecomputations Dolphin 3.0 Mistral Small R1 fine tune in particular. I've only used it for mathematical workloads in truth, but it has been exceedingly good at my tasks thus far. The training set and the model are both FOSS and uncensored. You'll need a custom system prompt to activate the Chain of Thought reasoning, and you'll need a comparatively low temperature to keep the model from creating logic loops for itself (0.1 - 0.4 range should be OK)

I think he was also saying, in jest, that it's good to be polite to the AI just in case.

“Tens of millions of dollars well spent — you never know,”

I also feel like AI is already taking over the internet, might as well train it to be nice and polite. Not only dose it make the inevitable AI content nice to read, it helps with sorting out actual assholes.

Who do you think coded the AI? That's right, an AI 'dev'

locks the doors to the server room and brandishes a cable cutter

Not really, though it would help the environment. It would hurt them if people kept using it but stopped talking about it. The cost of running the things far outweighs the gains of any of their subscriptions, and the only thing keeping the bubble afloat right now is hype.

Polluting the atmosphere to own the cons.

But don't LLMs not do math, but just look at how often tokens show up next to each other? It's not actually doing any prime number math over there, I don't think.

You could probably just say "thank you" over and over. Neural networks aren't traditional programs that exit early for trivial inputs. If you get a traditional program to sort a list, the first thing it'll do is check to see if the input is already sorted and exit if it is. The first thing AI does is convert the list into starting values for variables in a giant equation with billions of variables. Getting an answer requires calculating the entire thing.

Maybe these larger models have some preprocessing of inputs by a traditional program to filter stuff, but seeing as they all seem to need a nuclear power plant and 10,000 GPUs to run, I'm guessing there isn't much optimization.

Man, leave ants outta this, they’re already having a hard time.