I had a really good friend on MySpace that I lost touch with. I think he was a little paranoid, we didn’t speak much and he was always looking over his shoulder. His name was Tom.

That is a very VC baiting title. But it’s doesn’t appear from the abstract that they’re claiming that LLMs will develop to the complexity of AGI.

Do you have a non paywalled link? And is that quote in relation to LLMs specifically or AI generally?

largely based on the notion that LLMs will, with continued scaling, become artificial general intelligence

Who said that LLMs were going to become AGI? LLMs as part of an AGI system makes sense but not LLMs alone becoming AGI. Only articles and blog posts from people who didn’t understand the technology were making those claims. Which helped feed the hype.

I 100% agree that we’re going to see an AI market correction. It’s going to take a lot of hard human work to achieve the real value of LLMs. The hype is distracting from the real valuable and interesting work.

This is true on algorithmic platforms that reward “engagement” of any kind. I didn’t get that sense from pre 2010 Facebook or Twitter and I don’t get that sense on fediverse platforms.

It’s not a binary question but a good opener would be to ask the panel what AI tools they use. That would also help to set the expectations of the audience for the level of follow up questions.

Hosting local has become even more important with the vulnerability of submarine cables.

Most Americans and Russians are great people. Unfortunately even great people can fall for propaganda.

Yay! I’m in! I’m very excited about this

Use my fancy tea cup at work

I’m not arguing they should be wearing masks in a polling station

I think it’s reasonable to expect people in a voting location to be clearly visible and recognizable

I agree (in most cases). I’m arguing that these folks are more likely stupid than malicious.

By that logic the Pope and the Michelin man look like a members of the KKK

This is a bit of hyperbole. If there where trying to intimidate voters they wouldn’t dress up like ghosts. Stay vigilant but didn’t label everything as a conspiracy, some people are just stupid.

edit: I don’t live in the US but I have spent a lot of time there. The vast majority of Americans are great people. From an outside perspective, it’s a little disturbing to see how quickly this thread devolved into conspiracy. Hanlon’s razor and all that. Focus on the many actual threats to US democracy instead of paranoid ghost hunting.

We need shared definitions to tell meaningful stories with our data. And then use a company specific example like how a customer’s journey can not be understood with differing definition between marketing and sales. The marketing team can’t measure the quality of the leads they’re producing unless they can directly link a customer’s whole journey from acquisition to churn. Otherwise it’s just vanity metrics. But don’t be too harsh, vanity metrics are really common in business. A company needs strong data leadership to create a culture of using data to justify decisions to a culture of using data to inform decisions.

Just solve Hilbert’s problem and post the proof here. Then people will think the LLM solved the problem 🤣

Lol, yes he was surprised by the police and search parties 😅

So pot plants have somewhere to die

Well I was 5 and my friend’s dad drove me home

Maybe this is outside of the thought experiment but I would focus on digitization. Text compresses very well and you can fit 100Gb on a CD sized disc with an estimated 50+ years lifespan (m-disc). So you could easily fit over 30 million text only books on a single 100 disc spindle which is the size of 3 small physical books. Add some redundancy and it might be 25 million books. Books with images would be slightly less compressible but you could still fit 100s of thousands on a single spindle with redundancy. Get yourself a small bar sized wine fridge to control humidity and you could probably fit every book every made in there.

This all assumes you want to preserve the content of the books and not the books themselves. You obviously can’t digitize every aspect of a physical book like the ornate artwork on the spine etc. in which case I would focus my preserving efforts on those books and digitize everything else.