12 daysBut it’s so good at programming if you already know how to program! Surely that’s worth burning the planet and crashing the world economy??
Actually still no
https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri
Everyone was desperate to be first because capitalism. But we are getting good models without the insane build out requirement. Which will be hilarious to leave the cunts holding the bag. Not that the planet is better for it in the end.
- HrabiaVulpes@europe.pubEnglish11 days
Whoever thought that this machine that can predict next word in a sentence, next sentence in a conversation etc. should be used in place of all human intellectual work… should have his elderly care taken over by LLM.
- Garbagio@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
What you have to understand is that the CEOs and upper management of these companies genuinely believe that human intelligence is just a predictive model. They are so divorced from humanity, from actual people, that they only trust each other, and even then, barely. Some psychologist posited that consciousness is in part predictive, then Curtis Yarvin latched onto that half-baked headline and wrote on it, and then these sick fucks all had the same ideas: That they each are always the smartest man in the room, that their genuinely shallow creativity is deeper than anyone else’s, and that if the next guy who they consider almost as smart as themselves says it’s because humans are just complex llm’s then it must be true; that if they are barely smarter than this shittu technology, then all of humanity must be at or below it.
- HrabiaVulpes@europe.pubEnglish11 days
I don’t need to know any CEO to find a person who thinks they are smarter or better than everyone else. Why americans gave so much power to those idiots is beyond me though.
Also - post title is disingenuous. Current wave of AI is an engineering marvel, marketed dishonestly and used haphazardly.
- Darkonion@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I think that if you think you are better than other people you are then obligated to provide care and support for those you view as lessers. Then the very greatest that a person could be, and achieve, would be to care for and nurture the most people.
- MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
That conclusion requires a combination of empathy and compassion, characteristics people who become CEOs who rarely have.
The ones that do often get outmaneuvered by their peers and get kicked out.
- jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
That’s what is wild about it. At any given point in time, the model is wholly consumed only with the very next token. Maybe that token is a running narrative of ‘reasoning’ or directly in the output, either way, the AI does not have anything to model anything beyond the very next token. It doesn’t have a destination in mind and is just finding the words to get there, it’s building it up word by word. The overall ‘meaning’ is an emergent property of just picking the very next token and seeing what happens.
Honestly, it’s shocking it works as well as it does. More shockingly, there are AI enthusiasts that argue that’s how the human brain works, which I can’t imagine someone going through life with every thought rooted in building it up word by word.
- HrabiaVulpes@europe.pubEnglish11 days
My masters degree in intelligent systems wept in the corner after seeing your explanation.
But I guess cars are just four wheels and a fancy basket people sit in.
- krypt@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
its not that simple. whatever opinion you might on llms have you have to agree this is oversimplifying at best.
We are repeating an old pattern in computing: throw more hardware at the problem until efficiency becomes impossible to ignore. Bigger models have delivered remarkable gains, but they’re increasingly expensive. The next breakthroughs may come less from adding parameters and more from smarter architectures, better algorithms and more efficient inference.
DeepSeek has really led the way here, especially as they are a bit more hardware constrained. Plus they openly publish their findings and release open source models, so high hopes there.
It’s probably China’s play to pop the AI bubble, but I’m all for it (:
- 11 days
I wonder what all is in the deepseek code that is malicious. I’d like to try it but don’t want a million Mb/s of tracker shit across my network and can’t run it myself.
- qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
AFAIK, their open models are distributed as weights, not executables and are therefore not able to start network connections / run code. There is of course tool-calling functionality but that just works by having the model output a special pattern and having something external run predetermined commands based on that.
- teslekova@sh.itjust.worksEnglish11 days
The beauty of it is that it doesn’t need tracker shit. It works to destroy the US AI bubble even without anything malicious within.
And considering how hard the US researchers have been trying to control the output of their general LLMs, with little success, why would the Chinese have found a way before everyone else even thinks it’s possible?
- cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Look, if you know a way to convert a PDF to text with less than 500GB of VRAM and 2000W of power used for twenty seconds, I’m all ears.
- uszo165@futurology.todayEnglish11 days
Runs on anything that runs Linux:
NAME pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03) SYNOPSIS pdftotext [options] PDF-file [text-file] DESCRIPTION Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text. Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file. If text-file is not speci‐ fied, pdftotext converts file.pdf to file.txt. If text-file is ´-', the text is sent to stdout. If PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.
- MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Here here! well said!
Many dystopian science fiction books have already become reality. Look at “Enemy of the State” for example.
Heck, back in like what 1971? Enders game predicted the whole internet Influencer concept.
- Cricket@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
Ah, got it! I can remove the link or leave it up for others’ reference. Let me know if you have a preference.
- MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
If you want, it’s no skin off my back. This whisper voice to text that I have on my Android is working pretty well, but there will be similar errors in the future.
So far it’s the best one I’ve found. I don’t have to specify punctuation or anything. Basically what you’re reading is exactly what it came out with. It beats the keyboard, which for some reason keeps putting C’s and V’s where I put spaces, and I have to go back and modify everything.
- Cricket@lemmy.zipEnglish8 days
In that case I’ll leave it because it may help someone else. Cool about the Android voice to text. Do you mean you can whisper and it works?
- MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
wisper is the name of the ai/tech that drives the translation. there are implementations for other platforms. i got one on Linux, but haven’t really used it yet. it does work when there are other noises in the room.
This is an example of me using it in a noisy bar. The first paragraph was typed because I wasn’t sure it would work. But it works fine.
