crfriend wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 2:43 pm
rode_kater wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:37 amI think people need to get used to the idea of a computer having a memory as fallible as human memory. It's just not how we've experienced computers so far. Just like the "right to be forgotten" doesn't erase things from people's brains.
If the things are not "better" at things than we as humans are, then what's the point in them existing?
Well that's the interesting question isn't it. The only thing they have going for them is that they're faster and infinitely customisable by lay-people.
I guess it's a matter of perspective though. I've been following the whole AI development for decades and the whole problem is how to deal with natural language has been one of the
hard problems all that time. So for me, this is amazing stuff. Being able to examine a piece of text and determine who is the subject or object of a verb, who the pronouns, word like "this", "that", "there", etc has always been a big research topic and now all of a sudden we have something that can actually "understand" these kinds of things.
This is super important, because people use these words
all the time. And so having a computer be able to "understand" these kinds of sentences is super useful. However, by themselves they are just a step up, a tool to improve our interaction with computers.
They can also generate text, which is nice and has all sorts of uses but for me, that's not the important part. There's a lot of research going on now to understand
why LLMs are able to understand language like this. And yeah, people are going to use them for all sorts of good and bad purposes. That's technology for you.