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Be angry more. I work in China but Im French, so people assume (and I nudge them to think), that it's a culture thing for me to express anger publicly at injustice or idiocy.

But it's liberating to be angry at bullshit (and God knows China is the bullshit Mecca), and AI is the top bullshit these days. We're not anti innovation because we say chatgpt is not gonna maintain our trading systems or whatever you work on. It's a funny silly statistical text generator that uses hundreds of thousands of video cards to output dead http links.

We're far from anything intelligent but it's at least indeed very artificial.



As someone who was in academia at the right time to really contextualize the seismic shift in the capabilities of automated natural language processing models that came of both attention and the feasible compute scale increase that allowed for them to use long enough context windows to outpace recurrent models in this regard, I really didn't think I'd end up having to roll my eyes at people falling over themselves to exaggerate the implications, but in retrospect it's clear that this was more me being unconscionably naive then than it being that unpredictable




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