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I already like drinking wine, I could be a mentat!
Hell, I'd settle for just taking some Mentats.
Okay, but hear me out, what if we make one that isn't dumb?
Machines. Should. Not. Think.
I really don't see how we could state this any more clearly.
So we should make one with human intelligence, you're saying?
LLMs aren't the enemy, malicious politicians are
Why not both?
Because it's a naive take. Technology can help us make the world a better place for all - standing in the way are greedy pigs and asshole, ignorant politicians.
"AI" isn't the problem, our approach to it is.
Kinda sorta.
AI, or rather LLMs, can barf out a lot of passable text quickly. That can be useful as a starting point for something useful, if a human mind is willing and able to review and repair it. It's like having an idiot intern.
But the number of people who use LLMs in a way that reflects and understanding of their limitations is diminishingly small. Most people just don't assume that something that looks valid needs to be fully and critically reviewed. That's why we've had multiple cases of lawyers having ChatGPT write theis legal briefs based on hallucinated legal precedent.
That's not a problem of the technology though, that's human idiocy.
On the one hand, absolutely, human idiocy.
On the other hand, as a society it behooves us to thenk about how to stop idiots from hurting themselves and others. With IT, and in the context of corpo marketing hype, I am deeply concerned about politicians using AI or allowing AI to be used to do things poorly and thus hurt people simply because they have too much faith in the tool or its salesmen. Like, for example, rewriting the Social Security database.
show me that magic llm which doenst infringe the copyright of nearly everybody, which doesnt have an unprecedentet impact on the enviroment to train and run, which wont be used to cut of people from their income, which isnt owned by technocratic billionaire assholes, which isnt peddled and promoted by fascist goverments, which doesnt halluzinate, which isnt a blackbox, which actually works and doesnt fail at the simplest tasks sometimes, which doesnt infringe my privacy(allegedly tbf, but you know). the list goes on.
sure, sure technology itself isnt evil. but thats not a hill i want to die on in case of llms. they're problematic on so many levels. full stop. i dont think its a naive take to have some skepticism against this clusterfuck. potentially some technologies could make the world a better place. but llms dont fit into this category.