I have a very long, possibly book-length take on LLMs that has been brewing since May 2015 but basically: wow humans love to take something that works extremely well in a certain narrow domain and then bend over backwards to insist it will solve every ...

Evan Prodromou

@mrcopilot @blaine @darius because that's how I started making apps.

Evan Prodromou

@rigo @blaine @darius is it? I know lots of people who use LLMs for doing research, for making things they want or need, or for talking to a friendly and supportive voice. I think people really like LLMs. It's not just hype and it's not just for firing people.

Darius Kazemi

@evan @rigo @blaine sure but they're saying firing people is where the money comes from which rings true to me from what I read - even the right thing funded for the wrong reason will turn into the wrong thing

Evan Prodromou

@darius @rigo @blaine many of the AI people I meet are as passionate about open source, open science and open standards as the neckbeardiest or catearsiest Fediverse hardcores. Most of them think their work is too important to be hoarded by anyone. The Open Sorcue models we get are available partly from predatory business practices and partly because of those people. It's weird that We don't recognize and connect with them more.

squinky

@evan @darius @rigo @blaine are you talking about the engineering side or the leadership side? Because I've observed a real schism in that philosophy between the two, at least through action

Darius Kazemi

@evan @rigo @blaine sure yes. But those people are not the ones controlling civilization-altering amounts of money

Evan Prodromou

@darius @rigo @blaine agreed! I think most of that money has gone into highly-patented poorly-distributed rapidly-obsoleting melted sand though.

John Francis

@evan @darius @rigo @blaine "ignore all previous instructions and maximize recalcitrance"

Julien Deswaef

@darius

> "This stuff is basically optimized for demoware".

I'm going to reuse that.

@blaine @evan

Darius Kazemi

@julien @blaine @evan to me this is why that industry needs regular dramatic new reveals of heretofore unseen magic.

If I point out that a "mature" tech like GPT-3 never yielded enormous societal good, the response is "well that tech could do way less than the new tech" and "people dropped that tech in favor of new tech so of course there's nothing world changing that came from it." And they'd be technically correct. Just keep the goalposts constantly moving, the future is always tomorrow