My big robot is really expensive to build.
If big robot parts become cheaper, I will declare that the big robot must be bigger, lest somebody poorer than me also build a big robot.
My robot must be made or else I wonāt be able to show off the biggest, most expensive big robot.
QED, I deserve more money to build the big robot.
P.S. And for the naysayers, just remember that that robot will be so big that your critiques wonāt apply to it, as it is too big.
There are companies doing ācool-soundingā things with AI like Waymo. āGoodā would require more definition.
If they can convince the money hose that they just need one more OOM of compute bro, they can keep vacuuming infinity dollars. The incentive is obviously there for any amount of lying, but at some point, I assume even the most braindead investors will start asking around if this really is the only game in town.
Or maybe they wonāt, which would be an admission against the core tenet of capitalism, but this has been a crazy year, and itās only january. :/
https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/ And the companion piece on his blog.
What I didnāt wager was that, potentially, nobody was trying. My mistake was ā if you can believe this ā being too generous to the AI companies, assuming that they didnāt pursue efficiency because they couldnāt, and not because they couldnāt be bothered.
This isnāt about China ā itās so much fucking easier if we let it be about China ā itās about how the American tech industry is incurious, lazy, entitled, directionless and irresponsible. OpenAi and Anthropic are the antithesis of Silicon Valley. They are incumbents, public companies wearing startup suits, unwilling to take on real challenges, more focused on optics and marketing than they are on solving problems, even the problems that they themselves created with their large language models.
I mustāve read the words āJevonās Paradoxā a hundred times today, I didnāt realize that many people had their livelihood predicated on NVidia going to the moon forevermore.
Iāve been struggling with what the appropriate level of engagement for all the tech shit is.
I can stick to making fun of the AI crap and whatever else the tech people shit out because itās tangible for me, and I can more or less be an effective gatekeeper for my community, but the problems go beyond just a bunch of rich tech weirdos floating bad ideas, itās what theyāre trying to paper over. The fact that theyāre incompetent at it is very funny, but Iāve been laughing with gritted teeth for too long.
They understand that all of the major model providers is doing it, but since the major model providers are richer than they are, they canāt possibly ask OpenAI and friends to stop, so in their heads, it is what it is and therefore must be allowed to continue.
Or at least, thatās my face value read of it, I certainly hope Iām simplifying things too much.
The conspiracy theorist who lives in my brain wants to say its intentional to make us more open to blatant cheating as something thatās just a ācost of doing business.ā (I swear I saw this phrase a half dozen times in the orange site thread about this)
The earnest part of me tells me no, these guys are just clowns, but I dunno, they canāt all be this dumb right?
Weāre like 3 steps removed from the iq dickmeasurers moving from measuring skulls to comparing PoE builds.
I donāt even know if Iām joking here, what the fuck are these people doing.
The computation seems to be generating a uniformly random set and picking a sample of it. I can buy that itād be insanely expensive to do this on a classical computer, since thereās no reasonable way to generate a truly random set. Feels kinda like an unfair benchmark as this wouldnāt be something youād actually point a classical computer at, but then again, thatās how benchmarks work.
Iām not big in quantum, so I canāt say if thatās something a quantum computer can do, but I can accept the math, if not the marketing.
tfw the Holy Book (Atlas Shrugged) was misinterpreted.
Itās also just less effective this time around. Everyoneās afraid of being poor, capitalism as it exists functions based on that, so thereās a strong emotion that gets people wrapped up with the NFT hype train.
Itās a lot less convincing to go āHave fun being as productive as you are right now, loser.ā, at least without also going mask off and sounding like a supervillain.
Chat-GPT-TFSD-21guns can have a little anthropomorphism, as a treat.
This is somehow even sadder than āI have depicted you as the wojakā.
āI contracted the least efficient computer possible to depict myself as the chad, therefore I win.ā
Itās the imbalance of power. No one wants to be the gatekeeper at the local game store telling the 12 year old kid āSorry, you canāt play your Spongebob deck here tonightā, whereas as the ones printing the cards, they can be gatekeepers of āSorry, you canāt play your deck without the One Ring here tonightā off of the basis of ānormalā power creep.
Now I wonder if Musk calling the diver āpedo guyā was him thinking āyeah, this is exactly what Tony Stark would say to the bad guyā because he doesnāt understand media literacy even a little bit. (More likely, itās just him being the regular type of weird weāve come to expect from him)
āChatGPT is good, but only if no one in a position of authority uses itā
Cool.
That same tired script of āYou canāt say AI is useless, I use it as a $productivityApp, so itās clearly not worth nothing, which invalidates all your claims.ā shows up in Zitronās comment box, itās like clockwork.
I dunno man, maybe itās because the ability to generate templates and spellcheck is a free feature in most IDEs and would be a rounding error of a rounding error when weāre talking about billion dollar investments?
Wasnāt the first time he shut down 8chan (or was it Kiwifarms? Something along the lines), he immediately came out to say āItās really bad that I have the power to take down a website of shitheads.ā Just seemed like everything about his ideology is confused.
Iām sure the man who sleeps with his secretaries on company time has great ideas on how much time I should be in the office.