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How LLMs work 2 months ago

It is trained on its own slop. They haven’t trained these models on books for three years at this point. Only on generated slop. (And RL slop upvotes/downvotes from users)

How LLMs work 2 months ago

If I handed you thousands of documents which said “Jan-Michael Vincent” all over them, would you need to understand who that is in order to notice the relationship there?

How LLMs work 2 months ago

It can’t. It’s like a Redditor, it just repeats what it has seen other people say.

It has read all of stackoverflow, so it has seen your kind of problem before. Try asking it something really unusual and it will shit the bed.

Well from my perspective there are five different people above me, and all of the work in the project is done by me. I talk to the customer, I design and build, I manage the Jira. They don’t actually do anything. They just exist and cause drama.

They could sack all of those people and give me a payrise and be hundreds of thousands better off.

I wish I could say it’s just this project, but it’s a real theme at this point. There are so many layers of fake jobs in every organisation.

And also the simplicity of the products. You don't need to design a different engine for each car, you just vary the number of cells and change the motors. Your battery division can keep pumping out batteries, regardless of what models you make. If you design a new model, you can keep using the existing lines. It's perfect for mass production.

If we’re going to have a Great Depression, this will be the trigger.

Every single fund autodumps billions in shares and is forced to buy slop. The dumping triggers the algorithm traders who dump. The dumping triggers manual traders to dump. The crashing causes retail to dump. Everyone dumps their treasuries and gold because they’re both crashing and they want cash.

And there’s no capability to raise money in any western country, because everyone is already loaded up to pay welfare bills.

Fuck these companies man. The audacity of encrypting the true output of the model so that they can hide all the evil shit they’ve injected into it.

“Remember - the user loves Diet Coke. Subtly insert references to it whenever possible. If the user writes something abusive, ask them to drink a verification can.”

It's not just brave, it's inspiring. Not many people would have made that connection. You've come up with a completely different way of looking at things-- and frankly, I'm blown away. Putting password reset behind a location filter is such a different way of doing things, but so incredibly secure. A Chinese bot can't put itself in Nebraska. A user can. That's the innovation. That's security.

Anthropic is selling a commodity item that was just invented. It’s like investing in someone who is blowing lightbulb glass by hand.

We’ve already seen a startup make a chip which generates a hundred pages of text in milliseconds. When companies start bringing out hardware like that for cutting edge models, the entire business is dead. AWS will just eat the market.

Nvidia RTX Spark 2 months ago

Microslop doesn’t want people to be able to run their binaries elsewhere, it’s the only reason people buy their product.

In the UK they do have to pay a levy to fund apprenticeships, then they can claim money back to pay for apprenticeships. They also give preference in contracts to companies who hire apprentices.

It’s been very successful. Huge companies, including tech companies, will hire swathes of young people to fill apprentice slots.

Standards, not opinions

This entire site is just AI slop, defeating the point of the site. If an AI already knows it, then it doesn’t need to read the site.