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[โ€“] Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

EU can't be in a technological disadvantage when it comes to AI.

I think we might be at an impasse as "AI" currently seems to be a solution looking for a problem as far as I can see. Not that LLMs are completely worthless but the "hoover up the internet and hope something useful comes from it" approach seems to be a bit of a technological cul-de-sac that I think the EU would be better off ignoring. Let the other nations spaff money and resources on it, learn from their mistakes, then make a move. We're long past first-mover advantage after all, so we'd only be playing catch-up. Why not just wait a bit and leapfrog?

[โ€“] noretus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

You could be very right but I doubt powers that be want to take that chance. That said, I do consider AI dangerous in the world of information warfare.

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not that LLMs are completely worthless but the โ€œhoover up the internet and hope something useful comes from itโ€

You're saying that currently AI does not help with anything?

[โ€“] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've not found them reliably useful in a personal or professional capacity for anything other than trivial tasks. I've spent a lot of time reviewing code written by LLMs and it was not a good use of my time.

A technology that is inherently unreliable and requires constant supervision needs to be on the level of nuclear fission to be worth the hassle, in my view.

Note that I specifically am talking about "hoover up the internet" LLMs, not specialist tools built on scientific datasets or whatever.

It can summarise my email? Fantastic, except it cannot be relied on to do a good job so I might as well do the reading myself as at least that way the data I'm getting is correct.

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sigh, no, I just didn't feel like writing more of an essay. Presume away though because we're done here.

[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Do you still see my post? I deleted it 7 hours ago?

edit: why does this lemmy software fuckin suck so much ๐Ÿ˜ก

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but this worked what