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by doug_durham 11 days ago
Can you provide reasons other than "he's wrong"? There is no other technology that compresses so my knowledge into such a small space. A 24 GB diffusion model can generate a good approximation of any human relevant image from a description. Ask it to generate an image of the Tivoli fountain and it will do an impressive job. You can't use it as a map, but it gives an excellent representation.

Finally I don't think there are "dangerous ways" to think of any technology. This is just another tool.
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chroma_zone 11 days ago
If all that the author was saying was "LLM weights are highly compressed encodings of knowledge", I wouldn't have any complaints. He is making much bolder claims than that.

And if he was describing LLMs as "just another tool", I wouldn't be complaining either.

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TripolitianFish 10 days ago
The onus is not on the commenter. The author made badly qualified statements. Thinking of anything as an oracle is dangerous, an “oracle” is not just another “tool” it’s a religion
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