As someone who grew up using telephones... the last part is the most human chat bot interaction I've ever seen.
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A forest just disappeared because of you
Me to AI: alright, I'm about to send you a two part message. Do not respond to the first message.
AI: Gotcha! I won't respond
That could reasonably be interpreted as you haven't sent the first part yet.
But I assume it still responds like that when you do.
How would it know not to respond to the first part without processing it first? The request makes no sense.
Like telling a human, hey, don't listen to this first part! Also don't think about elephants!
I would think that, since it's been recognised that these messages are costing a lot of energy (== money) to process, companies would at some point add a simple <if input == "thanks"> type filter to catch a solid portion of them. Why haven't they?
It won't be as simple as that and the engineers who work on these systems can only think in terms of LLM and text classification, so they'd run your message through a classifier and end the conversation if it returns a "goodbye or thanks" score above 0.8, saving exactly 0 compute power.
I mean, even if we resort to using a neural network for checking "is the conversation finished?" That hyper-specialised NN would likely be orders of magnitude cheaper to run than your standard LLM, so you could likely save quite a bit of power/money by using it to filter for the actual LLM, no?
Because the only progress we know how to make on computers is backwards it seems.
People on lemmy bitching about how bad AI is for the environment, yet this gets upvotes.
Doublethink 10/10
Hey it’s Mister Gotcha here to derail debate with the weight of his own ego.
Wouldn't that be the gpt user that posted this screenshot? Someone making some kind of "I'm getting back at those pesky AI companies by costing them money" ... by pressing the "push to run a machine that burns the planet' button?
Or worse yet, it's an accelerationist willingly pushing the button.
I dont understand. People argued a book with me here for using AI quoting usage of large amounts of water and noise around the data server areas. But upvoted this? And how is this a meme? Its a long screenshot.
Reminded me of this thing I did with google assistant back when it was just a chatbot you had to deliberately access to use.

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I get that these are "sticking it to the AI companies", but aren't we also supposed to be freaking out about how much energy these things consume and pollution caused by them?


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