| ▲ | specproc 5 hours ago |
| AI is snake oil. It sells you a slot machine in the guise of a colleague. Oh, not using it right? Not the right model? Insert coin to continue. Snake oil, total snake oil. |
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| ▲ | tptacek 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This doesn't even make sense. Maybe if you fleshed it out? |
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| ▲ | specproc 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Snake oil is something not medicine sold as medicine. AI is something not a colleague (a slot machine), sold as a colleague. | | |
| ▲ | tptacek 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Right, that's what you already said. What I don't understand is the "slot machine" analogy you're making. In what sense is AI a "slot machine"? Are you talking about the stocks of AI companies? | | |
| ▲ | specproc 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Variable intermittent reward. Pull the lever, get something nice or something bad. I've had far too much bad today and I'm furious. | |
| ▲ | fragmede 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's a oversimplified characterization of LLMs as a slot machine. You put in some money, and pull the lever/submit a prompt, and maybe you get a jackpot/working code. It's typically used by morons who think they're smart for repeating it, and that they aren't the stochastic parrots in the room. | | |
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| ▲ | holoduke 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I just reversed engineered large parts of my 2011 car odb comms. Was able to hook a stm32 board to the car communication and have full control over a lot of stuff so that I can build my own instrument cluster from a lcd screen. It literally took me one evening to get the first proof of concept working. I never touched stm32 stuff before. |
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| ▲ | specproc 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Good for you, son. I've just spent the whole f*king day screaming at an agent on a deadline. | | |
| ▲ | rolandog 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | This right here. People simp for LLM companies as if their experience of using the out-of-pocket top-of-the-line "team of PhD's" paid models will be what is deployed when trying to contact your bank, insurance, etc. No,... once tech companies stop playing the "no/some revenue until we own the world" VC game, we'll all be stuck trying to talk to GlueSnifferGPT when reporting an emergency. |
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