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My understand is it would be useless against a building, but you make a good point

That's, like, your opinion, man

Sometimes an idea comes along thats so obvious it makes me angry. I have been struggling with ffmpeg commands for over well a decade. All the time I wasted googling and creating scripts so I wouldn't have to regoogle and this could have existed literally from day one

I'm like this but four kids. The kids are my life, but in another way the two hours when they're in bed are my life. I try and get household shit done in tiny increments throughout the day - cleaning the kitchen in the morning before I start work, doing laundry at lunch, cleaning away dinner stuff while they brush teeth, so that I squeeze a little more self time in the evenings. In those hours, I have side projects I work on. And I do WAY too many. People would look at my life and say I need to focus on one thing to finish it, but I've learned (for me at least) that happiness comes from having lots of options when you have that free time. I forgive myself for not making major progress on things, not being productive outside of work, and I try to just enjoy my time whether it's writing fiction, building board games, hobby coding, messing with unity, reading, building models, casual gaming etc. lately I've been doing needle felting because I picked up a cheap Halloween decoration of a needle felt cute vampire. Halloween is long over but I'm not beating myself up about it. All my hobbies follow a pattern of things that I can pick up where I left off with minimum fuss. I don't do anything that takes an age to set up or has a minimum time commitment.

I would say hang in there, and once in a while give yourself permission to prioritise the "care for myself" over the "maintain a household".

Do things in little increments and don't torture yourself about not being full of energy all the time

Its ridiculous and laughable to say LLMs hallucinate because the justice system isn't flawless?

That's a cognitive leap.

I'm not saying it needs to be perfect, but the guy in this article is putting a lot of blind faith in an algorithm that's proven time and time again to make things up.

The reason I have become "bearish" on AI is because I see people repeatedly falling into a trap of believing LLMs are intelligent, and actively thinking, rather than just very very fine tuned random noise. We should pay attention to the A in AI more.

> If you ask it "given these arbitrary metrics, what is the best business plan for my company?" It'd be really hard to verify the result. I'd be hard to verify the result from anyone for that matter, even specialists.

Hard to verify something so subjective, for sure. But a specialist will be applying intelligence to the data. An LLM is just generating random text strings that sound good.

The source for my claim about LLMs not summarizing but abbreviating is on hn somewhere, I'll dig it out

Edit: sorry, I tried but couldn't find the source.

> No human could read all of this in a lifetime. AI consumes it in seconds.

And therefore it's impossible to test the accuracy if it's consuming your own data. AI can hallucinate on any data you feed it, and it's been proven that it doesn't summarize, but rather abridges and abbreviates data.

In the authors example

> "What patterns emerge from my last 50 one-on-ones?" AI found that performance issues always preceded tool complaints by 2-3 weeks. I'd never connected those dots.

Maybe that's a pattern from 50 one-on-ones. Or maybe it's only in the first two and the last one.

I'd be wary of using AI to summarize like this and expecting accurate insights

I'll be investigating gitlab tomorrow

It sounds like a bad deal right?

Except the alternative is I do this for free but also I'm doing all the testing and providing the hardware.

I'm only going to charge you if you do most of the work yourself

This seems backwards. Why charge for me to run the thing myself instead of them?

is an underwater drone not just a torpedo? What's the technical difference? Torpedoes can be guided after launch

If you're looking for a semantic argument, Montreal is in America

I wonder when they get tired thinking about the problem, do they get more motivated?

They care about keeping their tiny number of allies happy though.

It's on the border with Belarus, one of Russia's major allies. Any leak would affect them

This wasn't buying a cake from a baker, this was a bakery buying 40% of the flour in the world so nobody else can sell wedding cakes, but now there's gonna be no bread for a year

Similar situation here. Have some old 32bit machines that I'm turning into writer decks. Most Linux distros have left 32bit behind so you can't just use Debian or Ubuntu and a lot of distros that aim to run on lower hardware are Ubuntu derivatives

Ah cool. Didn't know that. I usually turn off the music before I open zoom anyway so I don't know why I'm asking for that

Well the point was that chatgpt doesn't use so much energy. I thought we were comparing similar activities. If we're just going to list things a bored kid can do instead of watch Netflix we'll be here all day, and most of them use less electricity than chatGPT.

Nice work, thanks for making this! Would be great if music apps etc could just auto pause when you go into a call

Why lie? Just say I built this thing and want people to see it. Creating fake posts saying you "found" it just make me mistrust both you and the app.

BTW if anyone is looking for an AI image enhancement, I actually found a tool for that called upscayl, which runs locally and does the same thing I assume this does under the hood which is just esrgan.

I have no affiliation to upscayl but I like that it runs locally and doesn't send your photos somewhere mysterious

I feel like I just watched an SNL sketch that sent up this idea

Glad to see someone refute the AI water argument, I'm sick of that one. But I do not see how the displacement argument fits. Maybe you can elaborate but I don't see how we can compare AI usage to watching Netflix for any length of time. I can't see a situation where someone would substitute watching stranger things for asking chatGPT questions?

The writing and illustrating activities use less energy, but the people out there using AI to generate ten novels and covers and fire them into the kindle store would not have written ten novels, so this is not displacement either

Since LLMs are non deterministic it's not that amazing. You could ask it the same question as me and we could both get very different conversations and experiences

> The object is genuinely novel and unidentified by the observer, but actually not hostile. E.g. you are seeing this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117

I remember in the late 80s a lot of the UFO reports were triangular craft, and then the nighthawk was unveiled to the public, that's when I started to think maybe the are no aliens and we're just seeing advanced military tech

They can't get enough GPUs right now, with VCs pumping money into them, but that can very quickly turn into "we're out of money, what do we do with all these GPUs?"

It's through this link that I today discovered that a surface RT can run Linux. I think I got rid of mine already. Would have been nice to breathe some life into it

What does this actually mean for LLMs? Cheaper training?

No it does not. AI does not understand anything at all. It is a word prediction engine