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Monday, 22 July 2024

πŸ”– I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

An engineer goes off at the current fad, LLM-based feature development. Particular reference made to grifters and the inability of most companies to even do the basics of software engineering correctly.

Wednesday, 12 June 2024

πŸ”– The empty brain

β€œ Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer”

I have no idea how much of this is accurate, whether its depiction of the prevailing theory of mind and consciousness is correct or its counter-theory. Interesting starting point though for something I feel is important to, if not actually understand, at least have some knowledge of.

Saturday, 08 June 2024

πŸ”– LLMs Aren’t Just “Trained On the Internet” Anymore

A little bit of an explainer on the changing nature of training LLMs. They are increasingly being trained on things other than just the open internet.

Friday, 07 June 2024

πŸ”– AI Is a False God

Arguing that the danger to AI isn't that it will destroy humanity or take your job. It is that you will believe it is something more than it is.