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AI is very, very old, older than personal computers. LLMs and diffusion models are but a proposed branch of the technology. One that has shown some very useful applications, mostly in actual research environments, but that has shown its limits.

It's like the tale of the businessman and the fisherman all over again.

And they had to wait for the dotcom bubble to burst and overall infrastructure to catch on and make them viable.

These practical uses don't require the massive money burning that more "commercial" models do.

They might not be marketing it to you in specific. Given that you seem to be an early adopter. Most generally, there's a heavy push by companies that sell these services - and internally by the companies to justify spending so much on them- so that the average office drone uses theses tools and...

Just be aware, that it is bound to hallucinate in this case unless the paper in question is very very old and widely recirculated and improved upon. The most hallucinations happen with niche and novel content.

Can you run models at home? of course yes, my toaster can potentially run Stable diffusion (and from what I can see some small chat models too). But these LLMs are just plain gigantic for a single home computer. You cannot hope to even run Dalee, Midjourney or Chat GPT locally. Large in this...

In here they seem to be still going strong. Truth is, they are fast and you avoid the awkward moment with the bagger when all they do is move your purchase a few centimeters because they no longer have bags to do any bagging with.

The amount of resources it consumes makes it not worthy for the humanity at large if it is restricted to niche usages.

I don't know, that shotgun approach to coding sounds a bit like against everything they teach about software engineering.

Kind of makes sense. O_O

For example, "Sealed with a Kiss." I like the music, and I think it sounds very nostalgic and sad. Then I see the lyrics and they kind of don't fit. They are a mountain out of a molehill, first world problems. Boo hoo, you're sad because you can't see your girlfriend while on vacation. Instead...

I'm like, "I admire you for your courage and dedication. I hope everything goes well for you." Then in the last ten seconds "ahh, that motto isn't the call for peace you seem to think it is..."

Four thoughts. First, I was reminded of the Toys that Made Us episode on MotU. How when the brand died out in the 80s as part of the blame game someone accused the girl division of being at fault because She-ra made He-man less cool in the eyes of the boys. Then it is not just men that...

I feel deja' vu

TIL That Gary Kildall (Of Computer Chronicles, CPM, and GEOS fame, and "could've been Bill Gates but took a leisure flight instead" infamy) wrote the instruction set simulator for the Intel 8008 and 8080 microprocessors.

Here's the point. IMO if you are playing solo, at that point why not write a novel with random dice if you feel like it? or grab a few dolls and play pretend with them...?

Joke's on you. In here we skipped summer altogether.

Call center bots are expert systems. They have to be programmed manually.

Like a Holodeck, without the Holo, or the deck...