My boss is pretty decent. He gets dumb ideas (like we all do), but he recognizes when they fail and doesn’t try to force them for face-saving. It’s because of that that we survived the COVID-19 disasater and the pivot away from American clients (my initiative) without disappearing. He doesn’t appear to have the usual ego of a businessman.
My boss tried to get everybody to use LLMbeciles for work. He was taken in by the fakery and set up a commercial OpenAI account.
I refused to use it. Ever. Like to the point that I never even collected my ID and password.
Others used it, but it was, as always, a time-waster where it looked like they were making gains at the start, only to get bogged down when important details entered the picture. So I quietly got my work done while others wrestled with AI. Then by the end of six weeks nobody was using it and my boss quietly shut down the account.
They actually believe their own press and think their “reasoning” models say anything meaningful when they “explain” their “reasoning”?
Wow! I could be a top AI researcher too and I don’t even know how to begin programming a computer!
I understood about one word in five of that article.
Which means I’m about one word in five ahead of that highlighted idiot. He’s acting as if the Spicy Autocorrect understands things. As if it knows what a database is, what code is, what rules are, etc.
I’m not just technically declined, I’m a borderline technophobe and even I know this is bullshit.
People have said alarmist things like this with every new thing introduced in history. Even Chess was derided as harmful to its players!
LLMbeciles are terrible technology capable of all kinds of harm. This is not one of them in any meaningful way. People get addicted to, get psychotic over, and stories get told of people going overboard with, literally every new thing that has been introduced to society in all of history.
Including. Chess.
What is “the normal UTF-8 space”?
You space the endash, not the emdash.
Yeah, talk to the hand, you putrid asshole.
Buh-bye.
And yet not a single channel that I’ve clicked that button on has ever showed up in my recommendations ever again.
I literally screen-captured it doing something.
Keep undermining your cause. Apparently the western left doesn’t learn from over a decade of continued abject failure.
But do it in your own feed, please. (Not that you’ll be polluting mine any further.)
Because I live in reality, not in some bizarre cloud-cuckoo land.
This is also known as “late stage capitalism”.
That curve is bullshit both in its original “hype cycle” formulation and in this one.
Because most things crash and burn in the Valley of Despair. Hyped technologies almost always hit the Valley of Despair and then collapse and fail, never reaching enlightenment or sustainability. And the Dunnning-Kruger version you’ve put here has the very risibly optimistic view that people break out of the know-nothing stage.
You don’t even have to be an expert to spot the insane gibbering. Just ask it about, say, lyrics from a band and watch it generate completely non-existent lyrics. For example:
What are the opening lyrics to The Advert’s song “One Chord Wonders”?
The opening lyrics to The Adverts’ song “One Chord Wonders” are:
“We must be one chord wonders, one chord wonders…”
The song, released in 1977 as part of their debut album “Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts”, is a self-aware punk anthem about being dismissed as musically simplistic. The track humorously embraces the band’s raw, minimalist style while critiquing critics who underestimated them.
Would you like the full lyrics or more context about the song?
Sure. Let’s see the full lyrics.
Here are the full lyrics to “One Chord Wonders” by The Adverts (1977):
“One Chord Wonders”
We must be one chord wonders, one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, that’s all we are.
We must be one chord wonders, one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, we don’t know much,
But we know what we like, and we like it a lot.
We must be one chord wonders, one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, that’s all we are.
We must be one chord wonders, one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, we don’t know much,
But we know what we like, and we like it a lot.
They said we were one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, that’s all we are.
They said we were one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, but we don’t care.
We must be one chord wonders, one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, that’s all we are.
We must be one chord wonders, one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, we don’t know much,
But we know what we like, and we like it a lot.
They said we were one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, that’s all we are.
They said we were one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, but we don’t care.
We must be one chord wonders, one chord wonders,
One chord wonders, that’s all we are.
The Adverts, a key UK punk band, wrote this song as a tongue-in-cheek response to critics who dismissed punk as simplistic. Despite the title, the song actually uses more than one chord, making the joke even sharper. It’s both a satire of punk’s detractors and a celebration of raw, energetic music.
Would you like any background on the band or the album?
Note that the only editing I did to this was some very minor formatting changes. (LLMbeciles seem to love dividing lines and don’t seem to understand Markdown rules for line separation.) Note also that the “full lyrics” that it cites don’t even resemble the real thing:
I wonder what we’ll play for you tonight
Something heavy or something light
Something to set your soul alight
I wonder how we’ll answer when you say
"We don’t like you, go away
Come back when you’ve learned to play"
I wonder what we’ll do when things go wrong
When we’re half-way through our favorite song
We look up and the audience has gone
Will we feel a little bit obscure
Think we’re not needed here
We must be new wave, they’ll like us next year
(The wonders don’t care) We don’t give a damn
(The wonders don’t care) We don’t give a damn
(The wonders don’t care) We don’t give a damn
So I give it the actual lyrics and ask it to identify them. The confabulation continues with breath-taking gall:
Yes! Those lyrics are from “One Chord Wonders” by The Adverts—but they’re from the longer, alternate version of the song, which includes additional verses not found in the standard album or single release.
The original 1977 single/album cut is shorter and more repetitive, while this extended version feels almost like a meta-commentary on the band’s place in punk. It’s possible the extra verses were dropped for brevity or punchiness.
Fun fact: Despite the title, the song uses at least three chords (E, A, and B), making the joke even better.
Would you like help tracking down a specific recording of this extended version?
I’m not an expert on early punk. I’m not an expert on lyrics. I’m not really an expert on anything involved in this session beyond being an expert spotter of bullshit. And yet, it was really fucking obvious that it was bullshitting here. (Note that it called the shorter (correct) lyrics the “longer, alternate version”. It even bullshits about its bullshit.)
Wait, you mean techie nerds created new technology without thinking consequences through and it was used to degrade, harrass, and otherwise treat women like shit?
This has never, not even once, happened before!
If it’s on the recommended list at the right you can click on the triple-dot next to the and say “don’t recommend this channel” or some such, yes.
You’re being very disingenuous in applying human rights terminology to something that has sweet fuck all to do with human rights.
Or do you think it’s a human rights violation that an actor, say, be required to know how to act? Or a musician be required to know music? Or a chef be required to know cookery?
Your variety of faux-leftist bullshit is why the left has suffered setback after setback in the past few decades.
As soon as I hear the signs of TTS, I block the channel and stop the video.
Dr. Collier is one of the people I love best on Youtube!