What would you do though? My brain needs problems to solve. Maybe I'd just grow my own food. But if I didn't like that and just bought food I'd get bored very quickly.
The quarter pounder is loaded with sugar too unfortunately. The sweet bread is one of the worst things about it. The salad dressing will be too. It's not healthy and doesn't even taste good. But it's addictive.
It has 10g of sugar, which isn't good but no where near a medium coke. Though not a healthy meal because of high sodium, but with some added fibers isn't very bad.
It's a bit more subtle than that. The sugar is there to make it palatable and addictive. The real problem is it's hyper-processed and ridiculously easy to digest. It'll spike your blood sugar levels then have you wanting more an hour later. There's no point looking at a single food in isolation, you have to look at the entire lifestyle and the kind of lifestyle that includes McDonald's is not a generally a healthy one.
Then again Buffett apparently did it for 6 decades. But he also only had to drive a few minutes to work and probably had a mostly stress free life. You can eat all the healthy veg you want but if your day is punctuated by a dreadful commute and generally filled with stress, that's what will get you.
My 14" portable CRT I had when I was a teenager gave me joy every time I used it. My first car cost me less than 2k and gave me joy for 5 years.
You are now unable to get joy from a TV smaller than the largest one you've ever bought. Many people are unable to get joy from a car costing under 10k, let alone 2k.
I can't read the article, but the dude in the video is in a brightly lit room with cameras pointing at him. When I went clubbing it was so dark you couldn't even really see anyone. You could be anonymous if you wanted to be. It was always about letting people who aren't performers let go and feel the music.
So what about older films? Can you understand Die Hard on the same set? What about Lord of the Rings? That would help to determine whether it's newer films or your newer speakers that are the problem since millions of people have enjoyed those films with no problems.
I don't usually post something like this, but this is so fucking stupid. I'm prepared to stand by that. Let's see in a few years if I'm right.
"AI" is literally models trained to make you think it's intelligent. That's it. It's like the ultimate "algorithm" or addiction machine. It's trained to make you think it's amazing and magical and therefore you think it's amazing and magical.
This could apply if we looked at questions in vacuum - someone had a conversation and was judging the models based on that. But some of us just use it for work and get good results daily. "Intelligent" is irrelevant; it's "useful". It doesn't matter what feelings I have about it if it saves me 2h of typing from time to time.
To me, as just another kinda old (I’m 49) swe, the biggest benefit of using an LLM tool is it saves a shit ton of typing. I know what I want and I know when it’s right, just saving me from typing it all out is worth $20 bucks a month.
Sure, but there's no reason there can't be a correlation between us "thinking" it's intelligent and it actually being intelligent. What other proxy should we use? I can't think of a scenario where it's actually intelligent but humans don't think it is that has a good practical ending. It's at least necessary even if it isn't sufficient.
Recently I needed to summarize about a thousand lengthy documents, and then translate those summaries into Mandarin.
I spent about a minute composing the prompt for this task, and then went for a cup of coffee. When I got back the task was done. I spot-checked the summaries and they were excellent.
I thought this was amazing and magical at the time. Am I wrong? Or is it simply the AI making me think this result was amazing and magical?
This is an LLM's bread and butter so I would hope it does a decent job.
You just spot checked it, so how can you be sure how accurate it is. Was it 80% accurate? 90%? 99%? And how does the domain influence the accuracy requirements?
It’s trained to (lossy) compress large amounts of data. The system prompts have leaked and it’s just instructed to be helpful, right? I don’t entirely disagree with your sentiment, though. It’s brute force.
Now that you have unlocked this secret, you're cursed forever.
They look at the machine and say: hey, look, the machine is just like me!
You're left confused for the best part of 3 years and then you start realizing it was true all along...they are..very much similar to the machine.
For a moment we were not surprised by how capable the machine was at reasoning.
And then it dawned on us, the machine had human level intelligence and cognition from the beginning, just from a slightly different perspective.
Not my experience. I regularly travel by train and a 20 minute delay is unusual. Almost every train is on time in my experience.
Recently while driving an hour journey turned into a three hour journey, and not because my car broke down. I've never experienced any delay anywhere near that significant on British trains.
reply