FourPacketsOfPeanuts

"retention bots" of some description wouldn't surprise me in the slightest..

endless wars of who's federeated with who

i've been here for months and months, i might have seen this mentioned as an aside once or twice. but "endless wars"?

hahahahahaha nope.

Reads like someone took an English Lit major, switched to Philosophy, failed both, and is currently at a STEM major college party talking wank..

We were promised hyper-intelligent computer systems that would usher in an era of unparalleled prosperity and innovation.

With the advent of ChatGPT, some say these modern-day oracles have arrived.

Others say they are nothing but bullshit machines.

Technologists and publicists gush about how Large Language Models (LLMs) will revolutionize the way we work, learn, play, communicate, create, and connect to another.

They are right that artificial intelligence (AI) will affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.

And they are right that by providing a way for people to talk with machines in ordinary language, LLMs constitute a dramatic step forward in making computing accessible to everyone.

Yet for all the good that AI systems will do, they will also saturate our information environment with bullshit at a scale we’ve never before encountered.

"I think it's going to be the most transformative technology humanity has ever created, potentially on par with or exceeding the invention of the printing press, electricity, and the internet." Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

For better or for worse, LLMs are here to stay. We all read content that they produce online, most of us interact with LLM chatbots, and many of us use them to produce content of our own.

In a series of five- to ten-minute lessons, we will explain what these machines are, how they work, and how to thrive in a world where they are everywhere.

You will learn when these systems can save you a lot of time and effort. You will learn when they are likely to steer you wrong. And you will discover how to see through the hype to tell the difference. ?

Have you considered putting your gaming pc in one of the storage freezers? /s

It's predictive text on speed. The LLMs currently in vogue hardly qualify as A.I. tbh..

My history might be dusty but I don't think Hitler ever said he intended to become a dictator before people voted for him. His subsequent deception once in power is what you might refer to as the coup.

Trump on the other hand..

It is a coup if people vote for it?

That is true. Why people think enormous content servers should be run for free boggles my mind..

I should have stated it the other way round. Free and ad driven by default (like normal and like what people are used to) but an optional premium tier that removes ads and gives more control of your feed.

I think capitalist ghoulishness dominates innovation at the moment. Because massive resources will always be ahead doing new things. But at some point - I hope - a fairly agreeable social network becomes a sort of 'solved problem'. Perhaps some FOSS version becomes available that's not cutting edge but gets the job done. It would lack the sophisticated needed to coerce people and milk their attention, but that's not needed for our purposes.