hairyvisionary

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[–] hairyvisionary@fosstodon.org 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

@dgerard Right, that actually is investor money being set on fire to activate sand; and I guess MS own half of the previously existing for-profit OpenAI; mostly this makes me wonder how much more money they can set fire to and how fast

[–] hairyvisionary@fosstodon.org 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

@dgerard So um now we can get on into the sunk cost fallacy phase of "AI"-pre-winter? I mean how much how much VC money have they already burnt to heat up sand at data centers? Does MICROS~1 granting them Azure use count?

[–] hairyvisionary@fosstodon.org 2 points 7 months ago

@fasterandworse @dgerard I mean, it's like catnip for the people who control how the company's money is spent

For absurd, I think one would want the LLM's configuration language to be more like INTERCAL; but this may also be more explicit about how your instructions are merely suggestions to a black box full of weights and pulleys and with some randomness added to make it less predictable/repetitive

[–] hairyvisionary@fosstodon.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@fasterandworse @dgerard I am pretty sure I have seen programming the computer in plain English used as a selling point for various products since the 1970s at least

the best part is that most of these products are ex-products