Post Ac3EHL7BnC44XTC2Vc by jakemiller@federate.social
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(DIR) Post #Ac0YEeOH5LGx3rIfPk by Hey_Beth@sfba.social
2023-11-20T17:30:20Z
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Someone explain the OpenAI thing to me like I am a Gen X woman who does not know any of these techie celebrity types. OK, mansplainers. This is your moment.
(DIR) Post #Ac0YEfKlZs3nzGfNaK by WowSuchCyber@toot.zof.sh
2023-11-20T19:36:23Z
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@Hey_Beth some dudes said they could destroy a multi billion company faster than Musk and they did, in a single weekend. Without even having to be nazis!
(DIR) Post #Ac0YEg8ObLl8TBt0wS by nach@bae.st
2023-11-20T19:46:13.048803Z
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@WowSuchCyber @Hey_Beth elon is a nazi now? you twiteroids are something else lmao
(DIR) Post #Ac3EHDo8xbfdsNEELo by ellie@ellieayla.net
2023-11-20T18:51:53Z
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@Hey_Beth white techbros invested a lot of resources (money, time, other people's climate) into hardware & electricity for cryptocurrency bullshit and desperately pivoted to something in a last-ditch effort to profit from that exploitation before they got caught?
(DIR) Post #Ac3EHF6c8Q2VtwsUmO by Hey_Beth@sfba.social
2023-11-20T23:00:13Z
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@ellie Boom. Fancy shell game.
(DIR) Post #Ac3EHGUky8wgD7BI36 by jakemiller@federate.social
2023-11-20T23:35:39Z
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@ellie @Hey_Beth Crypto has never had a real use case other than enabling things that Treasury will arrest you for, IMO. LLMs are something else. The chatbot front end made the sophisticated statistical language model accessible to a huge audience. That was a real innovation. Yes, it also uses massive computing power of a similar type used in crypto.
(DIR) Post #Ac3EHI6116LLAxcYlM by peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv
2023-11-20T23:49:28Z
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@jakemiller @ellie @Hey_Beth sure but why? It is still neither worth investment or energy resources, nor is any good at practical things.
(DIR) Post #Ac3EHK7VUWizSAKmMi by jakemiller@federate.social
2023-11-20T23:35:39Z
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@ellie @Hey_Beth We don’t know exactly where LLMs are going, but there are tons of use cases. And they’ll also be used for things that they aren’t good for, and do massive damage to the users and the stakeholders around them. But they are real tech. Altman was CEO of a major SV incubator before this, so has social capital there. Part of the battle was apparently how fast to push the tech. Nonprofit had some concerns. Sam’s grabbing the $, and so is most of the team.
(DIR) Post #Ac3EHL7BnC44XTC2Vc by jakemiller@federate.social
2023-11-20T23:56:27Z
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@peteriskrisjanis @Hey_Beth @ellie I’m not sure what you mean by not “good at practical things.” I have been seeing a lot of chatter about it accelerating programming, for example. The art generators are replacing artists. (Not a great outcome, imo, but that’s a practical use.) @simon has been doing a lot of exploration of uses of GPT. (And this is all just using the chatbot. I prefer to use language models as a map of collective cognition.)
(DIR) Post #Ac3EHQQW2lUl0rH2pM by peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv
2023-11-21T07:35:45Z
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@jakemiller @Hey_Beth @ellie @simon it is all chatter, nothing really happens. As before. It is getting very boring and tiresome to see this happen again and again.
(DIR) Post #Ac3EHSDTOEFaYzBem8 by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
2023-11-22T02:42:37Z
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@peteriskrisjanis @jakemiller @Hey_Beth @ellie I find LLM tools genuinely useful on a daily basis, and have done for over a year now. I'm not easily fooled by shiny technology.I wrote a bunch about how I use it here: https://simonwillison.net/series/using-chatgpt/