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Comment · 3 years ago
this is the same in any field, 99% of human content is terrible, including this comment (and your comment)

the thing is, we need the other 1%, but when in absolute numbers it is small, you can still kind of find it, but imagine you have to look through 1 billion books to find one good book, it is as good as this 1% disappearing

Comment · 3 years ago
having read his manifesto multiple times, I think its better to read Ellul's books (particularly Propaganda and Technological Society)
Comment · 3 years ago
why do you think if we can not understand the dependency chain, the regulators and the auditors can?
Comment · 3 years ago
none of this makes any sense

in 2 years i will just run local llm and not touch google/microsoft models with a ten foot pole

the internet will be full of generated garbage and rendered useless

Comment · 3 years ago
haha i have most of the negative symptoms and never had any drugs what so ever

> Continuous anxiety about literally nothing. I felt like a student who didn’t do their homework, and was dreading their teacher calling on them - for 24 hours a day.

this one is most fun :)

kind of like the end of the world is coming and you are supposed to do something but you dont know what, but you know its the most important thing that has to be done

Comment · 3 years ago
if their parents give them heroin, will we turn blind eye?
Comment · 3 years ago
'Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.'
Comment · 3 years ago
you assume they just reproduces the training set, but when they get big enough they start to "understand" things, when the input is really big it actually can never "guess" the next word in the batch, so it has to "learn" concepts
Comment · 3 years ago
the jupyter desktop plus whisper and gpt might be the new way we use computers, like iron man's jarvis :)
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Comment · 3 years ago
shutterstock just introduced shutterstock AI partnering with dall-e

they will get it back quite quickly

Comment · 3 years ago
You probably are considered abusive to someone, you might not even know it.
Comment · 3 years ago
i used to care great deal about this, but recently i gave up

why do you even care? most of your files are either on apple's computers or google's computers

Comment · 3 years ago
what do you mean? you can open an issue on github and there are build instructions in the readme

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