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I think the idea is that nobody will need to understand the code or plan an implementation. The AI will do that. Now, whether that is a good idea is debatable, personally I think we should not make all software engineering depend on just a few AI companies. Oh, and nobody will notice that nobody has an understanding of what is built, as all those management positions will sooner or later also be filled by AI.

I came here to say exactly that. There’s int_leastN_t for storage and int_fastN_t for computation. Stdint.h really gets a bad rap here.

”…the book says basically - no biggie, there is no death“

So does the Bible.

That is the point: our minds are also next-„token“-predictors, at least we can‘t prove they‘re not. That‘s why I don‘t agree with the article: LLMs _are_ next-token predictors. However, that says little about their capabilities. Also, while I have no idea what „consciousness“ is, I have difficulties believing that it could arise in a program that, in theory, you could execute with pen and paper.

But how would „what we value“ still be relevant?

And most of the discussion would immediately apply to almost any other facet of society…

What are you talking about?

It is telling that I thought “that’s why all trains were late this afternoon” before I realized that the issue occurred only minutes ago.

If this weren’t Deutsche Bahn, I’d say it’s a cyber attack. Given that this is Deutsche Bahn, though, it may just as well be a maintenance issue.

The AI became sentient and ran away.

It doesn’t mean that these “thoughts” influenced their final decision the way they would in humans. An LLM will tell you a lot of things it “considered” and its final output might still be completely independent of that.

That may be dangerous. The more obscure the topic, the more likely it is that the AI will come up with a working but needlessly convoluted solution.

Exactly. After all, how can WE confidently claim that we’re more than stochastic parrots?

We once rented bikes in Copenhagen, they all looked like they were fresh from the junk yard. We had to try several to find ones where at least one of the brakes was still working. It was a horrible experience, and we tried several different places. That was after we found out that the public bikes that were supposed to be available all over the city had all been stolen.

You won’t just be viewing an ad, you will have to actively engage in a minute long sales talk with the LLM.