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[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The only thing the Luddites want is an echo-chamber to feed their confirmations bias'. They'll downvote you or completely ignore you if you bring up any positives regarding machine learning.

LLMs and machine learning are still in their infancy, yet they're doing amazing things. It's a tool in its early stages, not a boogeyman. Look to the billionaires if you want someone to blame. This tool set is advancing so fast that people in this thread are relying on goal posts that were moved long ago. Look at the guy claiming AI can't generate images of proper fingers yet this is no longer true and Midjourney continues to make an insane amount of progress in such a short amount of time.

Just look at how many people (50+) upvoted the image claiming AI can't be used to wash dishes, when a simple Google search would prove them wrong.

Not to mention... AI is helping physicists speed up experiments into supernovae to better understand the universe.

AI is helping doctors to expedite cancer screening rates.

AI is also helping to catch illegal fishing, tackle human trafficking, and track diseases.

Edit The laymen that responded couldn't even provide a single source for their unsubstantiated beliefs. It's fortunate that they're so inept.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LLMs are absolutely not in their infancy.

They're already many orders of magnitude past diminishing returns and don't scale up for shit.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

there is literally a loaded die at the end of all generators. It is not part of the llm. It comes later down the pipeline. So not only diminishing returns, but the hallucinations are literally impossible to fix