I ended up reading the article beneath because I enjoyed this one and the man seemed cool, I end up finding bits like this:
orientalism, Russiabaiting, 'we didn't lose in Vietnam'
Eastern countries, […] tend to download [sic] or even cover-up instances of foreign intrusions into their systems, treating them as a source of embarrassment.
One point of note here is how quickly the US public lost their appetite for supporting Ukraine in its defence against Russia’s invasion. Much of this sentiment was driven by disinformation feeding into people [sic] fears about their own economic situation, as well as the unrealistic prospect of […] nuclear war or WW3. Having seen how easy it was for Russia to degrade US support for Ukraine purely via information warfare, China may see the very real threat they pose to US infrastructure as a potential win condition.
When you look at previous wars involving the US, it’s evident that it has never been realistic nor possible to defeat the US military, but a viable strategy to just wait them out. There’s plenty such examples from Vietnam to the Afghanistan. Eventually, the public loses their appetite for war, and the US withdraws its forces.
He’s not wrong that the US military hasn’t been defeated, they’ve just strategically retreated across the ocean to regroup
aside from rag description, nicely summarized. i would add the only legit use case i still find for llm, is doing bureaucracy/formal emails where i can’t be arsed to make flowery language about some dipshittery (even then, unless it’s very long, it’s quicker to write two-three paragraphs yourself). (well programmer bros can play with mutating programs until they pass arbitrary tests, but that’s whatever use case)(although i’m still baffled while ai apologists are not running screaming about protein folding instead of non-shitty eliza)
although i’m still baffled while ai apologists are not running screaming about protein folding instead of non-shitty eliza)
Because protein folding isn’t wide-ranging enough to get that sweet sweet tech-illiterate VC money. Shitty apps that pretend to be people but suck at the basest show of judgement, while increasingly relying on an exploited global south force? Now we’re talking.
It seems like it’s really good at sorting thru medical data for patterns and such. But yeah that and basic/boring writing tasks seems to be about it.
well yeah, usual ml, where you feed it datasets labeled a,b,c,d and then ask to determine type of new info is what ml is very good at (but it has been good at it for a decade). (it’s also good at sorting like tomatoes or whatever the fuck)
I’m glad the writer made the comparison to blockchain, another technology with a very small number of actual use cases that an endless number of firms still poured money into just to prove to shareholders they were “staying current” or whatever. I felt insane throughout that entire period, not helped by the fact I worked for a time at a relatively early blockchain/wallet startup
Can we have another joke term like dark blockchain that sounds vaguely AI hype related
Aren’t pigeons better than most ML at catching certain kinds of cancer in imaging?
mayhaps (do you have a linky, sounds hilarious). But you can’t force feed them thousands of images, and then put a current one and have it highlight areas of concern or saying probability or something. In any case, cancer on images is the more grifty one, cause they just have millions of datapoints, instead of like 50 haphazard biopsies and pet scans
Here’s the link the article I read was referencing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4651348/
I didn’t really go through it to see if they compare it with ML performance, but it’s still a fun anecdote.
Plus, you don’t have to feed an ML model or clean its pen. Or train new ones when the current generation dies. I don’t really know if there is –or should be– a practical application in scale of these findings, but it’s pretty neat!
good birds
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With each passing day, I feel like I’m losing this war more and more. Fucking hopeless
