yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
In "The Cassini Division", the second book in Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution series, the socialist Solar Union uses what are essentially *huge* futuristic versions of Babbage Machines, that are cooled down in planetoids of ice, and that still sounds like a better use than what "AI" does now.
Capitalism is a cult that conveniently ignores entropy, having faith that growth can go on forever no matter how many times it is proven wrong. Unchecked, it will destroy everything in search of an unattainable goal.
This has really made me reflect on how common it is for people to pretend something works in the desperate hope it will actually make money in the future. Like how not a single streaming service actually makes enough money to offset their operation costs.
Doesn’t use an LM for logic other than to generate an algorithm that *should* calculate the answer. Pretty much how a brain works, which is a probability machine, too. I think that’s amazing and beautiful. I feel sorry for the planet. But human life is the problem, not non-human “life”.
Hey, really quick, can you confirm that you are indeed making this post as a criticism of AI or LLMs or whatever ChatGPT and similar things are? Apparently a gaggle of techbros don't understand what you actually mean here and are failing to dunk on you.