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[โ€“] 36 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Also Alan Turing if he were alive today: "We now have access to billions of times more computing power than I did, and the world uses it for what!?"

Edit: A major flaw with Turing's premise is that the test is not time-bound. At first blush, a conversation with an LLM is kind of miraculous compared to what we had before. But ample exposure to any LLM reveals its lack of intelligence; it just takes time.

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  • [โ€“] 34 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    This here is a USB charger. It uses a CPU to figure out if you connected a Samsung Phone for 50W charging, or if it should do the default 2.5W charging profile.

    It's processing power? Uhhh, about 4Million clocks/sec with 640,000 bytes of memory. Oh yeah I guess about 5-million bits.

    Oh this other thing? That's a mouse. It tells the computer if my hand moved forward or backwards or left or right. It runs a fourier transform over an infrared image and memorizes the desk. It performs a full image process / fourier transform 100 times a second to accurately track our hands and clicks. The USB connection is also a network of networks consisting of a ReedSolomon error correction code for reliable transmission at a bit over 10-million baud transfer rate.


    Our real computers are doing... Porn. AI generated porn.


    Fun fact: USB Chargers have more processing power and RAM than fucking the Lunar Lander / Apollo Space Program. Figuring out if Samsung phone or not-samsung Phone has so much processing power allocated to the task it's kind of hilarious

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago

    Idk. The people I know who use LLMs the most are also the people who use human pronouns on them and think they're conscious. It's like the people who use them a medium amount who aren't fooled, and I think it's because the people who get really really into it are just all in mo matter what and just ignore any issues and the people who had a few conversations and were amazed don't get a lot of utility out of it.

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