gay ass artist and programmer, i guess. 23. works on botania, the minecraft mod. also into weird functional programming stuff. talk to me about monads (or applicatives if you're even cooler)
ChatGPT and Copilot are very impressive technology that solves a problem humanity doesn't really have. it would be great if we could all collectively figure out what problem we do have in that space, and refocus on it.
we're not optimistic that that will happen though
tech entrepreneurs, much like large language models, are not very good at self reflection
How would you "collectively figure out what problem we do have"? I think it is a hard question.
oh, for sure it is a very hard question - hard enough that some aspects of it cease to be engineering problems and are more questions for philosophy or spirituality. for example, if the machine were to someday be able to write books indistinguishable from human-created literature, would that be a good thing or a bad thing? what would be the effects on society? what would be the effects on the human spirit? should we be trying to build such a system, or to prevent it?
Sorry, I got the impression you were implying it was obvious what they should be doing instead of chatgpt.
The reason I'm interested is that this is essentially the same question a business needs to answer, perhaps even a politician. But yes it's hard, even in the mundane, non-"hard" cases!
Personally I think the LLMs are going to sputter out, people won't be able to run businesses on them. It's going to be nu-spam and then another AI winter. What I'm worried about are the police robots, those are looking scary.
oh! sorry, no, we didn't mean to suggest it was obvious. that's on us.
we don't claim to know what the LLMs are going to lead to, but we are quite clear that there needs to be some further innovation if they're going to be genuinely useful.
we are concerned about the killer robots for sure; some friends of ours do activism around that. it's very upsetting how far along that has all gotten with so little public discussion.
