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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by rasz on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:09AM (#31847911)
You really dont want to live in Mindwarp (1992 Bruce Campbell movie) or in this !114! year old short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by dTal on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:31AM (#31848111)
The Machine Stops is eerily prescient - or perhaps just keenly observant of trends visible even at the time - but in fairness the humans in it are not socially isolated, as such; they do not converse with bots, but rather with each other. The primary social activity in the The Machine Stops is the Zoom meeting.

I do not look forward to the day when that story becomes an optimistic view of the future.

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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by mrguyorama on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:08PM (#31854528)
That story is already an optimistic view compared to our own: They have no ads
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