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A human doing it is impressive. A human performing many computations a computer could do would be impressive. I don't get impressed when a computer computes a number. A language machine translating is just... doing what a language machine does? When a language machine starts doing something other than translation, I will be impressed. If computers starting singing without any human intervention, for example, would be incredible! C3PO knows many languages—he may know Rust and Zig. C3PO translating from Zig to Rust isn't surprising to me. Sounds par the course for a robot who knows languages.

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>A language machine translating is just... doing what a language machine does?

Really? We had language machines for decades that couldn't do it. One that could was only built in the last 2 years max but that's something you expect from language machines? Lol Okay

If a machine made to do language things in this day and age having trillions of dollars invested in doing language, I am not shocked at all that a trillion dollar language machine translates programming languages. It really is not surprising to me. I'd be surprised if a trillion dollar language machine doesn't do as fundamental a linguistic capability as translation. It's like being shocked that a language machine spews out language? What else does a language machine do?

A calculator that can find all primes will be cool. A language machine that translates english into JavaScript is cool. A language machine that translates Zig into Rust is cool. Language machines are cool, not awe-inspiring or surprising to me.

There is no trillion dollar language machine and pouring lots of money into something doesn't mean anything.

Then what the hell are Anthropic and OpenAI doing with all that money?

Building datacenters to run the machines for hundreds of millions of people. And Open AI/Anthropic aren't working with trillions in any case.

Sorry, billion dollar language machines. My bad on the number of zeroes.

You are still wrong on the investment it takes to create the machines. The original thread is full of people announcing this an a disaster in the making and suddenly it's no big deal? Lol. You don't get to pull, "of course it can do this" for something that has only been possible in very recent memory.

If they only had to run Mythos for one person, how much do we think that would've cost to train and develop?

Millions. This is getting rather silly. You don't get to pull, "of course it can do this" for something that has only been possible in very recent memory. The original thread is full of people announcing this an a disaster in the making and suddenly it's no big deal? Lol

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