I’ll be adding this to the presentation.

Or, you know, don’t use LLMs. That also solves all those problems too, costs less, and won’t hallucinate your way into lawsuits or whatever.

These:

These are essentially crisp tea biscuits. Flavoured with chive oil.

I’m growing jasmine, aloes, and chilies in window boxes right now.

Yes.

Imagine the power of Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda machine, but with superintelligence behind the wheel and zero friction. That’s where we’re heading.

And with two sentences the entire article is rendered a joke.

Really? You literally posted something against the rules of a community and you’re using that as your excuse?! “CO2 spreads outside of the USA!”

My next phone (probably in another two years) will likely be running HarmonyOS. My next PC (even farther off) is also likely to be running HarmonyOS.

See, when I have 4-6 sentences to summarize, I don’t see the value-add of a machine doing the summarizing for me.

(Note: the above sentence is literally a summary of about a dozen sentences I wrote elsewhere that contained more details.)

Or the original poster was going by what is commonly referred to as AI today and not the multi-generational tree of technologies that fall under the academic definition of AI.

Register is a thing.

You know, I’ve seen many examples of “Expert Blindness” before, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single example that so perfectly encapsulates it.

Bravo! Mind if I use this message in our weekly messaging get-together at work?

AI is the new Crypto. If you are vaguely associated with it, I assume there’s something criminal going on

Nothing to add here. I just like this so much that I want it duplicated.

Nobody is a “prompt engineer”. There is no such job, for all practical purposes, and can’t be one given that the degenerative AI pushers change their models more often than healthy people change their underwear.

Even there it will hallucinate. Or it will get confused by some complicated sentences and reverse the conclusion.

I don’t think AI is actually that good at summarizing. It doesn’t understand the text and is prone to hallucinate. I wouldn’t trust an AI summary for anything important.

This right here. Whenever I’ve tried using an LLM to summarize, I spent more time fact-checking it (and finding the inevitable misunderstandings and outright hallucinations—they’re always there for anything of substance!) than I’d spend writing my own damned summary.

There is, however, one use case I’ve found where LLMs work better than alternatives … provided you do due diligence. To put it bluntly, Google Translate and its ilk of similar slop from Bing, Baidu, etc. suck. They are god-awful at translation of anything but straightforward technical writing or the most tediously dull prose. LLMs are far better translators (and can be instructed to highlight cultural artifacts, possible transcription errors, etc.) …

… as long as you back-translate in a separate session to check for hallucination.

Oh, and Google Translate-style translators really suck at Classical Chinese. LLMs do much better (provided you do the back-translation check for hallucination).

Every time I get wind of people using “AI” (in any of its forms thus far!) for doing any kind of serious foreign policy/military work, I get shadows of Whoops Apocalypse.

You can look on your profile. Every post and comment you’ve ever made is listed there, and if you haven’t turned off vote reporting it shows votes too.

In Chicago, sausages are fine art.

This alone would have me downvoting you for the sheer chutzpah of putting “Chicago”, “hot dog”, and “fine art” together into a post without intervening negatives. Hell drop Chicago and I’d still downvote for the chutzpah.

Use of the intentional stance is perfectly justified in this kind of situation.

Starlink was never a viable business prospect. It never will be. Anybody who signed up to Starlink was just waiting for this to happen without knowing it.