markon

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[–] markon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've used LLMs a lot over the post couple years. Pro tip. Use it a lot and learn the models. Then they look much more intelligent as you the user becomes better. Obviously if you prompt "Write me a shell script to calculate the meaning of life, make my coffee, and scratch my nuts before 9AM" it will be a grave disappointment.

If you first design a ball fondling/scratching robot, use multiple instances of LLMs to help you plan it out, etc. then you may be impressed.

I think one of the biggest problems is that most people interacting with llms forget they are running on computers and that they are digital and not like us. You can't make assumptions like you can with humans. Usually even when you do that with us you just get stuff you didn't want because you weren't clear enough. We are horrible at instructions and this is something I hope AI will help us learn how to do better. Because ultimately bad instructions or incomplete information doesn't lead to being able to determine anything real. Computers are logic machines. If you tell a computer to go ride a bike at best it'll go out and do all the work to embody itself in a robot and buy a bike and ride it. Wait, you don't even know it did it though because you never specified for it to record the ride....

A very few of us are pretty good at giving computers clear instructions some of the time. Also though, I have found just forcing models to reason in context is powerful. You have to know to tell it to "use a drill down tree style approach to problem solving. Use reflection and discussion to explore and find the optimal solution to reasoning through the problem." Might still give you bad results. That is why you have to experiment. It is a lot of fun if you really just let your thoughts run wild. It takes a lot of creative thinking right now to really get the most out of these models. They should all be 110% open source and free for all. BTW Gemini 1.5 and Claude and Llama 3.1 are all great, nd Llama you can run locally or on a rented GPU VM. OpenAI I'm on the fence about but given who all is involved over there I wouldn't say I would trust them. Especially since they want to do a regulatory capture.

[–] markon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mostly true before, now 99.99%. The charades are so silly because obviously as a worker all I care about is how much I get paid. That's it.

All the company organization will care about. Is that work gets done to their standards or above and at the absolute lowest price possible.

So my interests are diametrically opposed to their interests because my interest is to work as little as possible for as much money as possible. Their goal is to get as much work out of me as possible for as little money as possible. We could just be honest about it and stop the stupid games. I don't give a shit about my employer anymore than they give a shit about me. If I care about the work that just means I'm that much more pissed they're relying on my good will towards people who use their products and or services.

[–] markon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Huge time saver. I've had GPT doing a lot of work for me and it makes stuff like managing my Arch install smooth and easy. I don't use OpenAI stuff much though. Gemini has gotten way better, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is beastly at code stuff. I guess if you're writing extremely complex production stuff it's not going to be able to do that, but try asking most people even what an unsigned integer is. Most people will be like "what?"

[–] markon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

COVID tried and a lot of people paid the price for being low information and not so bright. Sadly plenty of people who did the right things still got fucked by stupidity of others!

[–] markon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just look at AlphaProof. Lol we're all about to be outclassed. I'm sure everyone will still derrid the bots. They could be actual ASI and especially here in the US we'd say "I don't see any intelligence." I wish or society and all of us at individualsc would reflect on our limitations and tiny tiny insignificance on the grand scale. Our egos may kill us.

P.S.. I give us a 10% to make it to 2100 in any numbers or quality of life we'd consider remotely acceptable today. Pretty grim, but I think that's the weight of the challenges we're facing. Without AI I'd probably just say it was fucking hopeless. Because we've had all the time we needed and all the tech we needed and hardly ever fix anything. Always running a day late and a dollar short. This species has dreams to big for our collective britches. It's always been a foolish endeavor and full of suffering and horrors. We're here though so I hope we at least give it a good go. Would be super lame to go out in a putter and take must lifev on earth with us.

So now the question is if we can use all these access models to actually do something about our problems. Even LLMs seem quite good at pointing out how we are really bad at using the tools we already have and know exactly how to use because we're always too busy arguing while the ship sinks!

[–] markon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I feel like everyone who isn't really heavily interacting or developing don't realize how much better they are than human assistants. Shit, for one it doesn't cost me $20 an hour and have to take a shit or get sick, or talk back and not do its fucking job. I do fucking think we need to say a lot of shit though so we'll know it ain't an LLM, because I don't know of an LLM that I can make output like this. I just wish most people were a little less stuck in their western oppulance. Would really help us no get blindsided.

[–] markon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Citation please?

[–] markon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Sounds familiar. Citation please

[–] markon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AlphaProof isn't an LLM but it just was a point from gold against some of the smartest people on earth. You think you're smarter than the people building this stuff? That might be the dumbest shit about this. I swear the United States essentially really has become Ideocracy. From all angles. Capitalism sucks but AI isn't the problem. Bunch of greedy apes is the fucking problem like it always has been. Lol

So you know if you have clean water and food though, you could be considered a very greedy ape. Why are you not fighting harder for clean water etc? What do you do to make the world better? (Shit probably same as me. Jack shit)

[–] markon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Adobe sucks but they have sucked their whole existence. No AI needed.

[–] markon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Arch and Android

[–] markon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah I want my autonomous electric town car to be fully open. We should be able to have sustainable cars if any cars at all. Cars you can't easily repair or maintain are not sustainable.

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