Comments by "Mark Welch" (@markwelch3564) on "Why am I so worried by AI?" video.

If historical precedent tells us anything, the threat isn't AI, the threat is idiot management buying into too much of the hype This isn't the first time that overly excitable tech journalists and investors have pushed a "magic bullet" AI tech breakthrough!
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@JB_inks do you have any good links? The vibe from the coalface is that it's an interesting academic curiosity, but practical applications are wildly overhyped. I am very interested to see informed counterpoints 🙂
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@household6098 the EU and America can settle their disagreements without bombing Ukrainian towns. It's a shame Putin can't manage the same
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@SyrianArrow there's no thinking or agency yet, even if it does seem like it, especially in short-form examples from LLMs They are only as smart as their training data though, as they're just remixing the source material. Sometimes the sampling gets very confused, and they aren't even as smart as their source material Anything needing actual agency or problem solving is still far beyond them
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@parrotshootist3004 but Ukraine is a sunk cost that has to be paid, as not paying it is even worse We have an alternative to AI. I am all for research and academic progress, but trying to commercialise LLMs feels either premature, or an active con
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@skyblazeeterno will that agreement involve Putin owning a big chunk of Europe's most productive farmland?
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