• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    At the risk of sounding like a tech bro who’s desperately trying to secure funding: this truly does feel like a major leap in technology that is going to change the world.

    Anytime I hear it dismissed as “basically auto-complete”, I feel like it’s being underestimated.

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      5 months ago

      Its kind of funny because autocomplete on phones is definitely moving in the direction of using LLMs. Its like it wasn’t true when people started saying it, but it will be literally true in a couple of years at most.

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      5 months ago

      It’s not just underestimation, it’s outright misinformation.

      There’s so much research by this point over the past 18 months that there’s an incredible amount going on beyond “it’s just a Markov chain, bro.”

      It was never a Markov chain as that ignored the self-attention mechanism which violated the Markov property. It was just some people trying to explain it used a simplified description which went viral.

      Sometimes talking to people who think it’s crap feels like talking to antivaxxers. The feelings matter more than the research and evidence.