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Amazon-Unveils-Q

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I started maintaining uBlock filters to avoid being spammed by intrusive ads a for a service I neither need nor want.

https://gist.github.com/L-P/cfee57bd0835c88262e29ff3a1f09b60

I'm slightly irritated by AWS making the same errors Azure did on their portal. Keep your ads out of my tools.

Would be nice if TechCrunch applied some skepticism or talked to experts or potential users about this idea rather than just summarizing Amazon’s presentation. Some of the claims being made about what this could do are pretty ridiculous, and clearly overstatements of the actual functionality. It can summarize existing AWS docs—one of the only actual concrete examples in the article says that it could list EC2 instance types and their properties in response to a question about where to host an app. And it will certainly encourage its users to use more AWS services to solve their problems. But it’s not going to be “transformative”. It’s a way out of doing the real work to improve their own documentation.

So I've tried using this Q Preview - and frankly, it's little more than the usual chatbot that can repeat what's in the docs.

>Amazon Q is an expert on patterns in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, best practices, documentation, and solution implementations, making it easier and faster for you to explore new services and capabilities, learn unfamiliar technologies, and architect solutions.

Can I trust that Q's proposed AWS architecture solutions will be cost-effective, and more importantly, secure? Does it come with a warranty?

With the AWS LLMs, I noted the other day that they legally indemnify users against copyright claims. That was a big move I thought.

> Can I trust that Q's proposed AWS architecture solutions will be cost-effective?

No. Even in the Solutions Architect an Data Analyst Certification exams there are biases tested to essentially reinforce customers build in ways that ensure they spend more money. This model is no different. Amazon makes it incredibly difficult to opt out of any data collection across its AWS services, making user privacy a serious concern here. And, Amazon continues to fail to disclose to customers when their services/data has been compromised.

The "Q" model is incredibly underwhelming. ChatGPT continues to do a better job of describing and proposing viable solutions using AWS framework, and it's free.

As a customer, the guarantee you'll have with this model is KTLO. No thanks.

I have trouble understanding what Q is. It can't be that new Chatbot named Amazon Q in AWS, because it has very few capabilities. It's kind of embarrassing.

What am I missing? Is there something else shipping in future?

doubt any of the media outlets actually used it, they are just repeating Amazon's statements

So everyone wants to name their thing either X or Q. Can't we give the other letters some love for a change? I've never heard about, let's say, the G conspiracy, for example.

G would be freemasons

G is for Golf

Top_p and top_k are pretty important concepts for LLMs same as temperature so P,K,C and F are underutilized

> top_k

topkek

No joke, that would be an awesome LLM project name!

How many times are we going to have to read promos for this product?

This is dead on arrival

My initial impression is wondering why they picked Q while the internet still remembers Qanon.

Because of the recent openai conspiracy maybe?

> My initial impression is wondering why they picked Q while the internet still remembers Qanon.

The first thought I had was of Q in Star Trek - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek)

I was thinking Q from James Bond.

Memetic domination of the letter.

Maybe it returns "drops" as answers.

Alfa Bravo Charlie And so on … Q is easier to redefine in part because it has fewer acrophonic opportunities to create a simple repetitive word. Q has a history of being mysterious and is a wildcard of sorts from a linguistic perspective.

I’d have to imagine the simple reason is that Q is short for Question.

Q is short for Quebec.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek)

I can't wait until it gives us an answer in a riddle we have to figure out ourselves!

I've never found Amazon to be good at naming things and stopped wondering where they pull these out of

At least this one is short. Un-Googleable, but short.

"Amazon Web Services Systems Manager Session Manager" remains my favorite.

Q is quite common. James Bond has a Q and Star Trek has a Q.

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