Architeuthis

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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

An LLM will write in the style of my immortal just fine if you ask it to.

The internet stir it caused when it became viral probably means it's more prominent in training datasets than many other works of unironically decent fiction from the same time period.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe non-judgemental chatbots are a feature only at a higher paid tiers.

it’s rather hilarious that the service is the one throwing the brakes on. I wonder if it’s done because of public pushback, or because some internal limiter applied in the cases where the synthesis drops below some certainty threshold. still funny tho

Haven't used cursor, but I don't see why an LLM wouldn't just randomly do that.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 19 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That's the second model announcement in a row by the major LLM vendor where the supposed advantage over the current state of the art is presented as... better vibes. He actually doesn't even call the output good, just successfully metafictional.

Meanwhile over at anthropic Dario just declared that we're about 12 months before all written computer code is AI generated, and 90% percent of all code by the summer.

This is not a serious industry.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Huggingface cofounder pushes against LLM hype, really softly. Not especially worth reading except to wonder if high profile skepticism pieces indicate a vibe shift that can't come soon enough. On the plus side it's kind of short.

The gist is that you can't go from a text synthesizer to superintelligence, framed as how a straight-A student that's really good at learning the curriculum at the teacher's direction can't really be extrapolated to an Einstein type think-outside-the-box genius.

The world 'hallucination' never appears once in the text.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing in my experience with LLMs or my reading of the literature has ever led me to believe that prompting one to numerically rate something and treating the result as meaningful would be a productive use of someone's time.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Still occasionally think about that bit in the o1 white paper where the openai researchers innocuously pose the question of what if our benchmarks for detecting hallucinations are shit actually, wouldn't that be something.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

Implicitly assuming that the technology to terraform Mars is just around the corner is the we'll become profitable once we hit AGI of space exploration.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

In todays ACX comment spotlight, Elon-anons urge each other to trust the plan:

image textJust had a weird thought. Say you're an eccentric almost-trillionare, richest person in history. You have a boyhood dream you cannot shake: get to Mars. As much as you've accomplished, this goal still eludes you. You come to the conclusion that only a nation-state -- one of the big ones -- can accomplish this.

Wouldn't co-opting a superpower nation-state be your next move?

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They posted an update:

4hours later I now have a complete marketing department of agents, it works pretty well actually. I gave it a high level task around building a full campaign, and it is. Here is the social media manager agent off on it's own composing the tweets, the social media manager agent is build with 4 internal agents, but calls out to my hackernews agent and my google search agent when needed. It actually works super well... you can see it running here, the manager even told it to do all the tweets for the year, so I presume it's going to stop at 365 tweets, https://s.h4x.club/eDubwABJ

So their use case appears to be effective spam distribution, or "social media marketing campaigns".

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

I guess in most games where millisecond reactions are necessary you probably aren't doing much scenery gazing in the first place and can switch DLSS off without missing much (but you'll have to pay extra for it anyway).

The long term problem is that no doubt eventually the 30fps of shitty unoptimized gameplay should be enough for everyone rhetoric will move on to you will take 180fps that feel like 30 and like it.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently they announced a $3.000 home computer that will be able to run 200B parameter models which is about half the params of the biggest downloadable model at this time.

Are they trying to compete with OpenAI's $200/month plan? No idea. The actual pitch seems to be you know AI is going to be everywhere soon so better lube up.

They also say if you buy one you get access to nvidia's AI tools to do whatever, probably to produce cutting edge quality AI media content or develop some hugely disruptive AI powered app, like the countless success stories we've had so far.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Molly White on one of the more obvious problems with betting markets

Tried to add the screenshot in the post but it won't work for some reason.

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