crispy_lol [he/him] to technology • 1 year agoThe AI grift: get marketing people to dress up AI as way more advanced than it is for fun and profitexternal-linkmessage-square5 fedilinkarrow-up119file-text
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minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]hexbear6·1 year agoI hate this shit. Whatever is actually going on under the hoods of these models, it's going to be used with a combination of cruelty, greed, and foolish hubris that's going to make the world much, much worse. link
minus-squareinvalidusernamelol [he/him]hexbear5·1 year agoIt already has, this is application of decades old financial trading algorithms to human language link
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]hexbear3·11 months agoVery true. I just found my copy of Weapons of Math Destruction from years ago. Gotta crack it open, though it must be hopelessly out of date now. link
I hate this shit. Whatever is actually going on under the hoods of these models, it's going to be used with a combination of cruelty, greed, and foolish hubris that's going to make the world much, much worse.
It already has, this is application of decades old financial trading algorithms to human language
Very true. I just found my copy of Weapons of Math Destruction from years ago. Gotta crack it open, though it must be hopelessly out of date now.