Makes me so angry. All the problems that couldve been solved with that kinda money. Climate crisis. World hunger. Population migration. Housing affordability.
If Trump triggered WW3 and we all got nuked id be fine with it. We don't deserve to exist.
Instead, all that money is being used to accelerate our doom. AI datacenters unnecessarily consuming power and drinking water in small towns everywhere. Many just dumping humidity into the air and letting that water literally blow away via lazy evaporative cooling. Most "normal" water consuming processes consume, treat, and return water to the downstream-traveling aquifer.
Now, couple that with an overall warming climate. When air is warmer, the more moisture the air can hold. So we end up with more water vapor in the air than normal. With the weirding factor of climate change, this means more water energy for more powerful and destructive storms the likes of which humanity has never seen. Which feeds back into more ice melting, oceans rising, permafrost melting, cycle, accelerate, cycle, accelerate.
Also, real curious to see how millions of warehouses belching humidity and heat into the air across the surface of the globe can affect the general weather patterns, but that sadly won't be known until after the damage is done.
There was an ad during the Super Bowl that succinctly sums up how I feel right now: “America deserves Pepsi”
I just used the voice feature in my truck to enter an address for Google maps like always, it came up as Gemini with a long speech. I repeated the address, it asked me if I wanted the location in my home city or one in a city over 400 miles away. Regression with exponential cost.
God I hate that. “Alexa turn on sleep” was a reliable “turn on sleep scene” until “Alexa Plus” came around, and now it randomly assumes in trying to tell it goodnight and tells me to have a good night.
Same with “sixty minutes” being immediately parsed as “sixty minute timer” and now sometimes simply results in a “what about sixty minutes?”
They’ve lowered the success metrics and satisfaction a whole bunch, but don’t fret you can now hold a “conversation” with it! Complete with logical contradictions!
And every fake-friendly long-winded response consumes more electricity and water than it should, while also being useless.
This is most unhinged take from both sides.
Time can’t exist in LLM by design: it’s just a thing that predicts next token based on previous tokens. There is no temporal relation between tokens. You can stop and resume generation at any point. How anyone expect it to “count time”? Based on what? The best you can do is add time mark to model input at some interval.
Simplifying, somewhat complex biological systems have some kind of clocks that actually chemically tick and induce some kind of signal that they can react on.
LLMs can’t do that like at all. They never will. Some other architecture that runs in cycles? Maybe. But transformer shit? Never ever.
The issue is that ChatGPT will tell you that it can do those things. Most of the hype for "AI" has been predicated on treating it like actual artificial intelligence and not the LLM parrot it truly is
I don't think anybody is expecting an LLM to do it
what they are expecting is the product, chatGPT, to be a one-stop spot that can do basic tasks like that
Some other architecture that runs in cycles?
Nobody really has a good handle on which SNN architecture would be ideal for which task and they're ridiculously hard to train, but if there is ever going to be an AGI (let alone an ASI), my money is on it popping out of something like an SNN that can also simulate neuroplasticity
Wow, the only thing Siri is generally competent at.
My first thought as well, lol.
Even if it could, it would be an order of magnitude more inefficient in terms of convenience than the stopwatch we already have on our phones.
"Hey ChatGPT, do the thing I could have done in 3-4 clicks on my clock app."
Not to mention the sheer wastefulness in terms of energy. A MINECRAFT REDSTONE MACHINE TIMER WOULD BE MORE EFFICIENT. (Not to mention that, unlike SOTA LLMs, it can run offline on a phone)
minecraft is turing-complete, so, like, you can do a whole lot more than just be a timer.
Absolutely. I was thinking of getting back into minecraft Redstone but I'd rather do it in a non-Microsoft alternative. Not to mention at least a dozen other projects on my backlog
You are correct but I think you are missing the point.
Remember, from the perspective of all AI companies (OpenAi probably more than most), AI is this monster tech that will surely replace all workers and even your Grandma as it can bake better cookies.
This is yet another display of how lacking AI is in a simple, everyday task... but more importantly, it is a gigantic demonstration of how AI is completely blind to its own weaknesses which is what makes it really really dangerous when used as prescribed by OpenAi and the others
This situation is basically the same as when the brand new $700 iPhones (back when that was eye watering expensive for a phone) could not run an alarm in the mornings and Apple's answer was something like "why are you using your Cadillac phone as a cheap alarm?"... it should fucking wake me up with a massage for that cost!
He's going to ask US Congress for a bailout with taxpayers money when this all fails and Congress is going to most likely give it to him because this one company is a huge part of the US economy
I don't think so, and I'm on the Ed Zitron train of thought why not.
The financial instruments got a bailout in 08, because the economy itself would stop functioning. That's different than the stocks would drop. Also, there's like nothing to bail out? OpenAI and their ilk are just sucking down capital and returning nothing. Even if they get one bailout, they need a continuous stream of unlimited money forever? I don't think it'll happen.
I hope I'm right, cuz damn that shit is cancerous
Okay, so, in case the headline is confusing anyone else, it's literal. Like, you know how there are those cringe-ass Alexa ads that are about how it does AI language processing and assistant shit? Yeah, ChatGPT can't I guess.
Why's this need to be on the LLM? They control the app, can't they just make a tool call out?
Hey, set a timer for 60 seconds.
ChatGPT analyzes text
You want a timer for 600 seconds, got it!
Sets timer for 600 seconds with api.
It's become more and more obvious that the reason he regularly looks like a rabbit caught in headlights is because he is, in fact, a fraud and not the tech genius he would like everyone to believe.
Just make Codex write the code for it. Should be easy. Don’t even need humans. Right?
Shit like this is a reminder to me that a large portion behind some AI products' hype are people who have no clue what these products even do. I wonder how the world would change, if these jack of all trades who ~~invest~~ waste so much time into collecting ideas to fill up their pockets, instead spent more time on actually understanding the ideas they have chosen and build at least a fundamental knowledge.
Its a Large Language Model, not a Large Number Model.
He looks like a guy who got intentionally hit with lacrosse sticks over and over and over in high school because he deserved to be hit with lacrosse sticks over and over and over and we should maybe make it an annual event to hit him in the face with lacrosse sticks because he looks like a guy who deserves to be hit in the face intentionally with lacrosse sticks over and over and over.
Everyone’s getting their knickers in a twist over nothing here.
Of course an AI can track time, if it’s given access to a timer MCP server.
Can we track time without tools, just in our heads? Certainly not very accurately. We can, however, track it reasonably accurately if given access to a quartz stop watch (typically +/-15 s/year)
A language model is based around language and reasoning by words/symbols. It’s not a surprise it doesn’t have timing capability.
What Altman SHOULD be embarrassed about is that the model lies about its capabilities. That implies that the context is still not right - it should be adequately trained and given context to prevent the lying. That implies a much more worrying issue - and something that Anthropic handles far better, IMHO (when asked if it can track time, if says “no, not on my own”, and then proceeds to build a JavaScript timer that it offers up to track time).
I don't use them but I follow the news about them loosely. The reason for this is epistemic humility. Claude has a pretty good idea of what its capabilities are and where the ceiling is. Chatgpt has no clue what its limits are so it believes it can do everything. Basically chatgpt has a lot of info and no idea where the gaps live and Claude has a fair idea when to search or use some external function to handle something. Gemini has less than Claude but more than chatgpt. Grok has little to no epistemic humility, but it did manage to accurately portray Musk as a world champion piss drinker, something none of the others were able to do.
I say that, but it's been a few months since I looked. That could have changed because shit moves fast. By the looks of what it's trying to do with the timer chatgpt has less than it used to. Possibly because of the way the model is trained to be helpful and confident.
This will actually be solved in a week. All it takes is to add the current time to each input.
Lol. Why dont they ask the AI how to program an AI?
They should just vibe code the feature. They'll have it done in an afternoon, right?
You would already be doing a great service to the world if you produced a really well tuned search engine / information digger with LLMs but no you had to periodically hype it as AGI because it can memorize entire text books with some accuracy. You did this to yourselves and if you fall it will be because of these expectations which are not met.
Dear Scat Altman, just add a timestamp at each response that the LLM can read
Scam Altman sounds like it's a name straight from an hltv comment section, I love it
Their trash will become completely irrelevant way before that.
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