| ▲ | Legend2440 an hour ago |
| Everyone? Speak for yourself. I'm not weirded out by it. |
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| ▲ | TRiG_Ireland an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Really? Interacting with an LLM feels like stepping on a slug. It's just gross. |
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| ▲ | ianm218 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Do you mean like inadvertently interacting with an LLM like when you call a customer service line and you get AI? I find it hard to imagine having a chatbot fix your broken SQL query or summarize some event be experienced as gross. | | |
| ▲ | TRiG_Ireland 23 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The worst is when a friend in the group chat uses ChatGPT to write his comments for him. That's really icky. |
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| ▲ | derac an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I disagree, though I highly dislike the affect of Anthropic models. | |
| ▲ | antonvs an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | It’s one of the most amazing technological achievements of the 21st century to date, if not the most amazing by far. But it’s still a machine executing a program. Your emotional reaction to it might be because you’re seeing it as something more than that. | | |
| ▲ | runarberg an hour ago | parent [-] | | mRNA vaccines takes the first place for sure, and by a wide margin. But also advancements in lithium ion batteries and solar cell technology. We also finally generated electricity with fusion power this century, traveled to Pluto and set up the James Webb Space telescope [albeit the latter two are engineering achievements]. I think using an absurd amount of power to train a neural network on stolen data which is then used to perform mundane tasks and performs significantly worse then if done manually. If anything LLMs is one of the least impressive, yet most annoying technological achievement this century. |
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| ▲ | keane an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| “Everybody…except [those advocating for it]” –– rhetoric that borders on tautology but, regardless, the author cites the Gallup poll showing 7 in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers and alludes to other widely-held sentiment. But it’s not about your feelings (or their feelings). This piece, by a defense analyst formerly at RAND, expands its concerns out from public sentiment and is mainly drawing attention to major yet-unsolved and generally uncontested issues such as AI output being unoriginal (fundamentally due to next-word prediction), the output polluting future training (garbage in garbage out), and errors only being caught by experts (cf. the Gell-Mann amnesia effect). The essay, in a political magazine, intends to warn elected leadership about strategic issues that are likely to arise if our government and experts intertwine AI into their decision making without these concerns being solved first. |
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| ▲ | squidbeak 39 minutes ago | parent [-] | | What makes you think that opposition to data center construction in their local area is proof that locals are 'weirded out' by AI generally, rather than just opposed to eyesores that drain their water and put up power prices? | | |
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