Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism
by lazide on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:19PM
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Because if you don’t have real world constraints (like needing to be profitable, or paying the bill for thermodynamic reality), then ‘anything is possible’.
Also if you aren’t dealing with those, then problems that come from that never occur to the person involved. So the concerns are abstract and not based on real limits or real problems.
Hence ivory tower.
Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism
by ethanbond on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:53PM
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Okay so the server bills or thermodynamic bills mean we need not worry. Open to hearing the argument: tell me how!
Re:AI’s big rift is like a religious schism
by lazide on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:37AM
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Not at all what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, no one knows where the line between actually economic/useful/effective and 'not worth the trouble' actually is, let alone 'could be done without boiling the oceans'.
Right now it's all hand wavey, could do everything, etc. etc.
If not the researchers who are at the frontier of building and deploying these systems, playing with next generation iterations and planning several generations forward, then who?
Andreessen? People who like playing with LLMs? People who called the OpenAI API?