My Thoughts on AI and LLMs

8 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by leonardovb

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13 Comments

jraph

4 hours ago

My thought on AI annihilating us all because of misalignment: it's a fantasy from a bunch of weird guys from the Silicon Valley that ought to go outside a bit more, spammed and relayed to everyone as is by the uncritical media.

Can we stop with this bullshit already, so we can focus on the real issues, like it requiring way too much resources or posing a huge risk on the stability of the global economy?

LarsDu88

4 hours ago

Requiring way too much resources will inevitably be solved by better, more efficient chips. It's a non-issue in the long run. Each generation requires less power than the previous one, and we don't even need Moore's law to make this happen. I don't see why people continue to float this talking point. If anything, what likely will happen will be data center build outs motivating investments in long neglected improvements in energy infrastructure, that people will gradually see the benefits of as better chips result in reduced power requirements. This is contingent on AI demand plateauing, which it inevitably will, and if it doesn't that means that the economic motivation for such build outs is justified.

The risk to the global economic system is also oversold. AI enables the same work to be done for a lower cost, and more types of work to be done overall. No different than previous industrial automation. There are vast capabilities in medicine, energy, automated design, manufacturing, and science that are only now being unlocked. Does that sound like something that will crash the economy?

atmosx

2 hours ago

the topic literally started with an unrealistic approach: "Lets assume I'm spiderman and have spider-powers [...]" ... I would prefer being Phoenix, or maybe Thor from the Avengers, the cartoon version, possibly not the cropped down, dumbed down lowly-God Avengers endgame version...

kypro

an hour ago

Do you have an argument? Actually, could you just give me a workable definition of alignment?

I'm weird and worry about AI x-risk though, so feel free to dismiss me for that if you like.

lolakutty

5 hours ago

>but it needs the right architecture. Architecture it key.

Can you make EM radiation with an LLM with right Architecture? If not why do people say things like this?

leonardovb

5 hours ago

I mean architecture not only in the sense bits and bytes, but also atoms... you would need a hardware extension to do something like that... I'm curious though, why do you mention EM radiation?

bhu1st

34 minutes ago

Ig LLM's atoms are in data centers somewhere.

lolakutty

4 hours ago

>but also atoms..

So like every other machine. Got it...

Sateeshm

3 hours ago

Dr. Ford from west world has some good ideas.

hgu63

5 hours ago

Come on dude. IF you want to spend your time compiling things ppl have to be afraid about then start with Covid. It killed 7 million people. No intelligence required. No massive energy requirement. No daily interviews saying be afraid of me, be afraid of me,

ezulabs

5 hours ago

Also do not forget about not well tested mRNA shots. SW update/patch without testing enough, on some humans it caused life long issues!!!

nater5000

4 hours ago

Why is this showing up on my feed? lol