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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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[–] 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.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Oh man, XML is such a funny hype. What if we took S-expressions and made them less human readable, harder to parse programmatically and with multiple ways to do the same thing! Do I encode something an an element with the key as a tag and the value as the content, or do I make it an attribute of a tag? Just look at the schema, which is yet more XML! Include this magic URL at the top of your document. Want to query something from the document? Here you go! No, that's not a base64-encoded private key nor a transcript of someone's editing session in vim, that's an XPath.

JSON has its issues but at least it's only the worst of some worlds. Want to make JSON unparsable anyway, for a laugh? Try YAML, the serialization format recommended by four out of five Nordic countries!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

Try YAML, the serialization format recommended by four out of five Nordic countries

yeah there are so many fucking crazy footguns in yaml

another I quite like:

❯ ipython -c 'import yaml; d = dict(); d["d"] = d; print(yaml.safe_dump(d))'
&id001
d: *id001

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