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I really can't understand this LLM hype (note, I think models used for finding cures to diseases and other sciences are a good thing. I'm referring to the general populace LLM hype).

It's not interesting. To me, computers were so cool and interesting because of what you can do yourself, with just the hardware and learning code. It's awesome. What I don't find interesting in any way is typing a prompt. "But bro, prompt engineer!" that is about the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard.

How anyone thinks its anything beyond a parlor trick baffles me. Plus, you're literally just playing with a toy made by billionaires to fuck the planet and the rest of us over even more.

And yes, to a point I realize "coding" is similar to "prompting" the computers hardware...if that was even an argument someone would try to make. I think we can agree it's nowhere near the same thing.

I would like to see if there is a correlation between TikTok addicts and LLM believers. I could guarantee it's probably very high.

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The study isn't about how good so-called AI is at detecting cancer. The study is about how these doctors lose the ability to spot cancer after having delegated the spotting part of their difficult jobs to a model. They looked at the numbers before the introduction, while using it, and then when they took this assistance away. This study can say something about these doctors' behavior. I don't think it proves so-called AI is shit at it. It's more about how humans get lazy. Roughly six generations ago people could recite poetry from memory, know the dates of historical importance, and remember 50 phone numbers. Now we're like eff that I got those in my phone plus Wikipedia access. It's more like that.