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1. Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 07:36:02 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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   • Owl
   • lain

   The current primary utility of LLM is like having a retarded intern do a task, which overlaps with the entire skill set of entire professions like yellow journalism. It’s kind of wild as they can’t even fight back against it as they’re replaced.

   How’s that for replacement theory? They can’t even scream, because Ally the AI is ghost writing their opinions.

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   • lain (lain@fediffusion.art)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 07:36:03 JST lain

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     • Owl
     @lonelyowl i mean, yeah, after seeing a machine do it, it's "no surprise", but it sure was a surprise before it happened
   • Owl (lonelyowl@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 07:36:04 JST Owl

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     • lain
     @lain
     
     Hail cybersatan!
     
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     Well, if take it seriously, IMO, this person has some valid guesses about a thing. Natural language is our primary way of expressing our opinions about what is right, wrong and why, as well as making arguments, so it's no surprise that a machine has gained the ability for very basic human-like reasoning by simply predicting the next word in a sequence.
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   • lain (lain@fediffusion.art)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 07:36:05 JST lain
     > I expect the only people who are nonplussed by the power of LLMs are those with a soft spot for occultism of some sort—those who think words are magical. Let me explain.
     > Let me repeat: there is so much abstract structure in our language—the patterns are so overwhelmingly clear, consistent, and objective—that by mindlessly figuring out the probability of one symbol following another, a machine can effectively reason better than the average person for a large number of cases.
     
     https://steve-patterson.com/why-language-machines-do-not-have-souls/