... and neither does the author (or so I believe - I made them both up).
On the other hand, AI is definitely good at creative writing.
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For me the threshold is zero. LLMs are dead ends and cannot really be improved much beyond where they are now, complete with hallucinations and techbrodude confidence.
The billions being wasted on LLMs are better spent on less idiotic technologies less likely to destroy trust in information sources.
It sounds like you don't like how LLMs are currently used, not their power consumption.
I agree that they're a dead end. But I also don't think they need much improvement over what we currently have. We just need to stop jamming them where they don't belong and leave them be where they shine.
It is possible to despise everything about LLMs from the "podcast bro" types who hype it to the environmental costs to the dangers they represent in actual use.
Very rarely in history are there inventions that have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. LLMs are shaping up to be one of them. Thankfully they're running the hype curve on fast forward and look like they won't actually climb the right side of it. In five years they won't be anything but detritus on the trail of "progress".
Weren't you just telling me that the environmental cost has no impact on your stance?
You mean at the tail end of a thread that opened with me pointing at the environmental costs?
Yeah. That's a good take.
If you're not going to participate in good faith you're going to find yourself talking to the wind a lot.
Exactly! Hence my confusion. If you care about energy costs, then shouldn't saving energy be a good thing? Why would the benefit be 0?