I had a really good friend on MySpace that I lost touch with. I think he was a little paranoid, we didn’t speak much and he was always looking over his shoulder. His name was Tom.

That is a very VC baiting title. But it’s doesn’t appear from the abstract that they’re claiming that LLMs will develop to the complexity of AGI.

Do you have a non paywalled link? And is that quote in relation to LLMs specifically or AI generally?

largely based on the notion that LLMs will, with continued scaling, become artificial general intelligence

Who said that LLMs were going to become AGI? LLMs as part of an AGI system makes sense but not LLMs alone becoming AGI. Only articles and blog posts from people who didn’t understand the technology were making those claims. Which helped feed the hype.

I 100% agree that we’re going to see an AI market correction. It’s going to take a lot of hard human work to achieve the real value of LLMs. The hype is distracting from the real valuable and interesting work.

This is true on algorithmic platforms that reward “engagement” of any kind. I didn’t get that sense from pre 2010 Facebook or Twitter and I don’t get that sense on fediverse platforms.

It’s not a binary question but a good opener would be to ask the panel what AI tools they use. That would also help to set the expectations of the audience for the level of follow up questions.

Hosting local has become even more important with the vulnerability of submarine cables.

If women had on average 1.5 children it would still take about 1000 years before the population was reduced to just a million humans (the number of humans around 10,000BCE). We’re not going anywhere soon.

Most Americans and Russians are great people. Unfortunately even great people can fall for propaganda.

donor who said all black women should be killed

Where did you get this part?

What’s the context here?

Yay! I’m in! I’m very excited about this

Use my fancy tea cup at work

This person should text-to-speech this tweet on public transport

I’m not arguing they should be wearing masks in a polling station

I think it’s reasonable to expect people in a voting location to be clearly visible and recognizable

I agree (in most cases). I’m arguing that these folks are more likely stupid than malicious.

By that logic the Pope and the Michelin man look like a members of the KKK

This is a bit of hyperbole. If there where trying to intimidate voters they wouldn’t dress up like ghosts. Stay vigilant but didn’t label everything as a conspiracy, some people are just stupid.

edit: I don’t live in the US but I have spent a lot of time there. The vast majority of Americans are great people. From an outside perspective, it’s a little disturbing to see how quickly this thread devolved into conspiracy. Hanlon’s razor and all that. Focus on the many actual threats to US democracy instead of paranoid ghost hunting.

We need shared definitions to tell meaningful stories with our data. And then use a company specific example like how a customer’s journey can not be understood with differing definition between marketing and sales. The marketing team can’t measure the quality of the leads they’re producing unless they can directly link a customer’s whole journey from acquisition to churn. Otherwise it’s just vanity metrics. But don’t be too harsh, vanity metrics are really common in business. A company needs strong data leadership to create a culture of using data to justify decisions to a culture of using data to inform decisions.

Just solve Hilbert’s problem and post the proof here. Then people will think the LLM solved the problem 🤣