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Gigantic hater of all things LLM or "AI" here.

The only genuine contribution I can think of that LLMs have made to society is their translation capabilities. So even I can see how a fully open source model with "multilingual fluency in over 1,000 languages" could be potentially useful.

And even if it is all a scam, if this prevents people from sending money to China or the US as they are falling for the scam, I guess that's also a good thing.

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Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Most rational AI hater.

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umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Usually when I see this it's using other machine learning approaches than LLM, and the researchers behind it are usually very careful not to use the term AI, as they are fully aware that this is not what they are doing.
  
  There's huge potential in machine learning, but LLMs are very little more than bullshit generators, and generative AI is theft producing soulless garbage. LLMs are widely employed because they look impressive, but for anything that requires substance machine learning methods that have been around for years tend to perform better.
  
  If you can identify cancer in x-rays using machine learning that's awesome, but that's very seperate from the AI hype machine that is currently running wild.
  
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  - greybeard@feddit.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Machine learning is a subset of the AI branch of computer science. I agree that the pop culture definition of AI is different than the computer science one, but the computer science one is still valid.
    
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    cabbage@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Large language models and "generative AI" such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E are all just machine learning models. We do not currently have a real "AI branch" of computer science, we have a branch of machine learning that poses as AI.
    
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  - umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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    cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah, I just find it to be a great rule of thumb. Those who understand what they are doing will be aware that they are not dealing with AI, those who jump to label it as such are usually bullshit artists.
    
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