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LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago (35 children)

A lot of people still don't, from what I can gather from some of the comments on "AI" topics. Especially the ones that skew the other way with its "AI" hysteria is often an invite from people who know fuck all about how the tech works. "Nudifier" or otherwise generative images or explicit chats with bots that portray real or underage people being the most common topics that attract emotionally loaded but highly uninformed demands and outrage. Frankly, the whole "AI" topic in the media is so massively overblown on both fronts, but I guess it is good for traffic and nuance is dead anyway.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (34 children)

Indeed, although every one of us who have seen a tech hype train once or twice expected nothing less.

PDAs? Quantum computing. Touch screens. Siri. Cortana. Micropayments. Apps. Synergy of desktop and mobile.

From the outset this went from “hey that’s kind of neat” to quite possibly toppling some giants of tech in a flash. Now all we have to do is wait for the boards to give huge payouts to the pinheads that drove this shitwagon in here and we can get back to doing cool things without some imaginary fantasy stapled on to it at the explicit instruction of marketing and channel sales.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (24 children)

Xml also used to be a tech hype for a bit.

And i still remember how media outlets hyped up second life, forgot about it and a few months later discovered it again and more hype started. It was fun.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

this reminds me of some of the more cursed things I know from that hype era

(see this for some others)

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sarvega, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance XML networking solutions, today announced the Sarvega XML Context™ Router, the first product to enable loosely coupled multi-point XML Web Services across wide area networks (WANs). The Sarvega XML Context Router is the first XML appliance to route XML content at wire speed based on deep content inspection, supporting publish-subscribe (pub-sub) models while simultaneously providing secure and reliable delivery guarantees.

it’s fucking delicious how thick the buzzwords are for an incredibly simple device:

it parses XPath quickly (for 2004 (and honestly I never knew XPath and XQuery were a bottleneck… maybe this XML thing isn’t working out))
it decides which web app gets what traffic, but only if the web app speaks XML, for some reason
it implements an event queue, maybe?
it’s probably a thin proprietary layer with a Cisco-esque management CLI built on appropriated open source software, all running on a BSD but in a shiny rackmount case
the executive class at the time really had rediscovered cocaine, and that’s why we were all forced to put up with this bullshit
this shit still exists but it does the same thing with a semi-proprietary YAML and too much JSON as this thing does with XML, and now it’s in the cloud, cause the executive class never undiscovered cocaine

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

similarly in that age: CORBA

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

and now of course instead of people handcrafting xml documents by string-cating angle brackets and tags together in bad php files, we have people manually dash-cating yaml together in bad jinja and go template files! progress!

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

(see this for some others)

This article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords. (July 2011)

WP:LOL. WP:LMAO even

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