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I'm so incredibly done with people being on a high-horse shitting on advances in AI for no other reason than to feel better about themselves.
Like if your issue is things like copyright and training data? Sure, go off, it's a philosophical argument there about rights, economy, etc. Likewise for arguments about ecological impact (it can be made reasonable there, the companies just don't want to).
But if you're just posting bullshit like "Hahaha, the language model can't do math" or "Look at how it was baited into saying something stupid" as proof that it's worthless: go fuck yourself.
Let alone the people who try to relate AI development to "NFT Bros"... NFTs literally don't do shit, AI actually has multiple proven and valid uses cases but if you think it's the same thing that just shows you have your head up your ass and refuse to look at the world around you.
All of that before getting to the fact that they have shown incredible usefulness for disability accommodations, but I guess it doesn't count if you prefer to be ableist and think we don't need or deserve accommodations?
Like if your issue is things like copyright and training data? Sure, go off, it's a philosophical argument there about rights, economy, etc. Likewise for arguments about ecological impact (it can be made reasonable there, the companies just don't want to).
@anubis2814 The core issue is that they're trying to cram it in everywhere for fear of being left behind on the "next big thing" and they all insist on using the absolute highest performance, latest, and most powerful AIs for everything.
I can run a reasonable model for most use cases offline on my phone, spinning it up just as needed (ironically my phone is more powerful in this regards than my desktop... so I'm stuck with online models there, but even then I typically use the lower power models)
I have an .mp3 of my voice saying things I never said because I fed about 12 minutes of my voice into a cloud based software that can do that extremely well.
I can see all sorts of applications for this, purely for comedy purposes but doubt I will use it for anything (speech synthesizer will do for what I need).
I was taken aback by this episode though. It was my voice (well, one of them) and hearing it from something else was odd.
There is an awful lot of bullshit and nonsense surrounding the subject.
My interaction with AI has been quite limited. If I feel a YouTube video is read by AI or generated by such then I click off, and I find the constant chat bots in the corners of commercial websites to be unwelcome (or if you get one on the telephone).
As with anything you're going to get a mountain of shit (a content avalanche that will render the internet useless if the pundits are to be believed) but I'm impressed by its capabilities.
I mean, relatively impressed.
The most impressive thing computer related thing I've ever seen was in the 80's where I saw an Acorn Archimedes playing video footage of a race car event.
@Air Quotes Comedian Yeah, bulk of the places I've seen it have been misplaced and majority of them I could have told people how it'd go before they even started...
Chat Bots in the corners of commercial websites are going to fall apart as they increasingly realize that it'll say shit that they're now liable for. The god forsaken AI voiceover videos and content farms, every one of which is truly awful and I wonder how they're even seeing returns on it in the first place. And don't even get me started on Google's "Let's cram an AI answer into search results randomly because there's no way it will say awful shit that people will take at face value".
I've mostly used it for skimming on my behalf (I use big-agi.com for that especially, but in general for most of my AI uses), code assistance, and the occasional editing.
@anubis2814 but again please acknowledge I addressed that in my post and you've brought no new information... because I'm also sick of people thinking they "one-upped" me because they didn't pay attention to what I said.
@Lea yeah, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of how these came to be... your examples of non-generative AI are all the same basic technology. In crude terms it's an image enhancement/recognition ai run in reverse. (Then LLMs were cutting out the image part)
Their training process is nearly identical in fact.
@Lea I've seen a whole bunch of practical beneficial uses:
I use it personally as a coding assistant (great for repetitive code entry where it'll automatically fill in variable names in repetitive blocks of code, or help with debugging)
I've used it time to time as a search aid (when used properly with a good system it can drastically cut down on complex searches, taking something that would have taken me anywhere from a half hour to 2 hours into something that takes 5-10 minutes)
Once or twice I've made use of it as a sort of thesaurus to figure out terms when i didn't have enough to search off of (as in, with a normal thesaurus I would give similar words... but I didn't have similar words in these cases)
As a disability aid for executive dysfunction (see goblin.tools that "magic to-do list" and "compiler" aren't just gimmicks, they're for people with executive dysfunction who struggle breaking down, separating, and sorting tasks)
I've used it personally as an aid for communication. Being an autistic, when communicating with allistics, especially in a professional environment, it can help edit my message/email to maintain the correct tone as well as make sure I'm getting my point across (again see goblin.tools "Formalizer")
I've also seen in the wild Amazon's got a great use now where it summarizes user reviews for a product (and this has been practically helpful, I saw some issues with products before buying them there and it gave me cause to look deeper into the reviews to figure out whether that issue mattered to me)
Yes, there are plenty of harmful uses, but if you don't see positive uses you're not looking at all.
There's also the upcoming uses that are still being ironed out but inevitable (as in these aren't just hypotheticals, it's just down to predictable progress): * Dynamic dialogue in games: tech demos of this have been pretty cool, it's not there to replace writers but to allow NPCs to fluidly talk back to anything rather than purely scripted responses) * Virtual assistants: you may or may not like them, but many people do like them and being able to handle fluid natural language is a huge step compared to before.
I'm not going to pretend that image generators have much use at the moment, there's technologies that come later that they lead to that can be useful (like dynamic generation of 3d models and environments, which can be good progress towards the goal of "holodecks" in the sense of being able to dynamically call up desired environments then tweaking them to be what you need).
Voice generators right now mostly are just good for nice computer voices and maybe in the future being used to splice in dynamic content (such as player character name) into games (right now games either avoid saying your name entirely, use a stand-in name, and/or have a handful of pre-recorded names that are really cool if they happen to be on the list)
@Lea I think you're quibbling over the term "generative" there, a non-generative version would be outputting just variables rather than raw text. Ie. non-generative analysis is just going to be "x% confident, x% aggressive, x% sympathetic..."
analyzing prose and flagging tone or phrasing problems = like so many anti-ai people you just assume the person using it is somehow unable to read and understand the text. And frankly as I've already said this is a disability accommodation I'm a little bit pissed off at this response. We can understand these things when pointed out, we can understand whether the text it gives is trash, we're not idiots. What it does is consistently give us text that fixes our tonal issues, and we can recognize those fixes after the fact but can't reasonably do them on our own. So maybe get your head out of your ass when talking about a disability accommodation that someone has first hand experience on and has said so up front.
summarizing reviews - again, you're just trying to throw away a point because you don't understand what "generative" or "large language model" means.
coding assistant - and again clearly you made one half-assed attempt to make it do more than it's capable of, considered it trash, and then threw the whole thing away. I've used it plenty, I've used it to speed through refactoring a whole project to change database engines out, I've used it to speed through building UIs with a bunch of buttons. Does it create good code when I just ask it to write a whole application for me? Hell no. But it sure as hell can see me writing a list of buttons and go, "Oh, I recognize the pattern of the names I'm going to fill this in 20 more times with all variables names changed to meet the pattern".
@Lea like I said, you're attacking the definition of generative by ignoring the actual definition.
And I'm done with this conversation since all you're doing is looping back on points I've already called out. You've been an ass, just accept it and move on.
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Unknown parent • •@anubis2814 ... did you even read the post?
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in reply to Shiri Bailem • •@anubis2814 The core issue is that they're trying to cram it in everywhere for fear of being left behind on the "next big thing" and they all insist on using the absolute highest performance, latest, and most powerful AIs for everything.
I can run a reasonable model for most use cases offline on my phone, spinning it up just as needed (ironically my phone is more powerful in this regards than my desktop... so I'm stuck with online models there, but even then I typically use the lower power models)
Air Quotes Comedian
in reply to Shiri Bailem • • •I have an .mp3 of my voice saying things I never said because I fed about 12 minutes of my voice into a cloud based software that can do that extremely well.
I can see all sorts of applications for this, purely for comedy purposes but doubt I will use it for anything (speech synthesizer will do for what I need).
I was taken aback by this episode though. It was my voice (well, one of them) and hearing it from something else was odd.
Shiri Bailem
in reply to Air Quotes Comedian • •@Air Quotes Comedian oh yeah, as much as it has potential for good it's also a hell of a lot of potential for absolutely terrifying as well.
Another problem with the bulk of "Anti-AI" crowds is that they drown out the real problems and lash out at anyone trying to fix them.
Air Quotes Comedian
in reply to Shiri Bailem • • •There is an awful lot of bullshit and nonsense surrounding the subject.
My interaction with AI has been quite limited. If I feel a YouTube video is read by AI or generated by such then I click off, and I find the constant chat bots in the corners of commercial websites to be unwelcome (or if you get one on the telephone).
As with anything you're going to get a mountain of shit (a content avalanche that will render the internet useless if the pundits are to be believed) but I'm impressed by its capabilities.
I mean, relatively impressed.
The most impressive thing computer related thing I've ever seen was in the 80's where I saw an Acorn Archimedes playing video footage of a race car event.
Blew my mind.
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in reply to Air Quotes Comedian • •@Air Quotes Comedian Yeah, bulk of the places I've seen it have been misplaced and majority of them I could have told people how it'd go before they even started...
Chat Bots in the corners of commercial websites are going to fall apart as they increasingly realize that it'll say shit that they're now liable for. The god forsaken AI voiceover videos and content farms, every one of which is truly awful and I wonder how they're even seeing returns on it in the first place. And don't even get me started on Google's "Let's cram an AI answer into search results randomly because there's no way it will say awful shit that people will take at face value".
I've mostly used it for skimming on my behalf (I use big-agi.com for that especially, but in general for most of my AI uses), code assistance, and the occasional editing.
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Unknown parent • •@Lea or maybe just people always had a wrong idea of what early AI would look like?
People just expected it to jump out fully formed as a super-genius rather than baby steps of abilities...
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Unknown parent • •@Lea yeah, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of how these came to be... your examples of non-generative AI are all the same basic technology. In crude terms it's an image enhancement/recognition ai run in reverse. (Then LLMs were cutting out the image part)
Their training process is nearly identical in fact.
Shiri Bailem
Unknown parent • •@Lea I've seen a whole bunch of practical beneficial uses:
Yes, there are plenty of harmful uses, but if you don't see positive uses you're not looking at all.
There's also the upcoming uses that are still being ironed out but inevitable (as in these aren't just hypotheticals, it's just down to predictable progress):
* Dynamic dialogue in games: tech demos of this have been pretty cool, it's not there to replace writers but to allow NPCs to fluidly talk back to anything rather than purely scripted responses)
* Virtual assistants: you may or may not like them, but many people do like them and being able to handle fluid natural language is a huge step compared to before.
I'm not going to pretend that image generators have much use at the moment, there's technologies that come later that they lead to that can be useful (like dynamic generation of 3d models and environments, which can be good progress towards the goal of "holodecks" in the sense of being able to dynamically call up desired environments then tweaking them to be what you need).
Voice generators right now mostly are just good for nice computer voices and maybe in the future being used to splice in dynamic content (such as player character name) into games (right now games either avoid saying your name entirely, use a stand-in name, and/or have a handful of pre-recorded names that are really cool if they happen to be on the list)
Shiri Bailem
Unknown parent • •@Lea I think you're quibbling over the term "generative" there, a non-generative version would be outputting just variables rather than raw text. Ie. non-generative analysis is just going to be "x% confident, x% aggressive, x% sympathetic..."
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Unknown parent • •@Lea like I said, you're attacking the definition of generative by ignoring the actual definition.
And I'm done with this conversation since all you're doing is looping back on points I've already called out. You've been an ass, just accept it and move on.