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Re:Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltie... by amelius on Monday July 21, 2025 @06:51AM (#44633716)
Huh, control theorists always try to rigorously prove the stability and performance of their algorithms. AI seems to be the opposite of that: just let the black box solve it and don't worry about any problems, we'll just add more training data if they happen!
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Re:Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltie... by FirmwareBurner on Monday July 21, 2025 @07:22AM (#44633899)
Yes! Let's spend 100x the resources on AI to do what a PID controller or Kalman filter can do.
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Re:Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltie... by ethbr1 on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:21AM (#44635428)
I’m less scared about 100x the resources (in most applications) in exchange for decreasing programmer time / need.

What worries me far more is the lack of formalism around risk / boundary cases by undertrained teams using modern AI solutions.

Anyone building on top of a thing should either understand (a) how it’s built in detail or (b) its specifications and behavior in detail.

Most of these teams understand neither about LLMs.

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Re:Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltie... by FirmwareBurner on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:27AM (#44635500)
>Most of these teams understand neither about LLMs.

That's where my 100x comes from, not from the dev effort but from the debugging of issues of an unknown black box.

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