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by timschmidt 438 days ago
No worries, I'm sure it'll never improve. /s
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otabdeveloper4 438 days ago
It won't. LLMs aren't magic, they're machines built to spec. And their spec is basically "copy-paste with a really good blur filter".
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timschmidt 438 days ago
Whatever helps you sleep at night.

You just described everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc

The entire evolutionary process which resulted in us and all of human invention can be summed as copy w/ blur; fight; repeat.

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otabdeveloper4 437 days ago
Yes, and people in 18th century used analogies like "humans are just intricate clockwork mechanisms". (Clockwork mechanisms were the most advanced technology at the time.)

I bet they thought themselves very smart too.

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timschmidt 437 days ago
Like I said man, whatever helps you sleep at night. Even if it's a straw man like an unreferenced assertion about unnamed people in the 18th century.

p.s. which part is the clockwork? the ticker tape with the encoded data, or the part that reads it? whole thing?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYf_rPWUdY

edit: Probably none of those since rhibosomes were discovered in the 1950s it seems.

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timschmidt 437 days ago
This clockwork lookin' fella seems to have been characterized sometime around 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSm9gJkPxU
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