I asked ChatGPT to review my resume and make changes tailored for the job description I was applying to (which I also gave it). Also told it that this was an internal position and not really an upgrade, but a sidestep that (I felt at the time) was more aligned with my long-term career goals.

I was really happy with the improvements it suggested.

Didn't get the job, but as I understand it, the hiring manager wanted to bring in a friend of his from the moment he posted it.

In retrospect, I'm kinda glad that's how it panned out. Myself and the new guy are operationally equal, he's incredibly competent. We compliment each other well, and get along great.

And he's friends with the big boss and thus has his ear.

The main reason I even applied to the job was because I wouldn't want to work with anyone but myself in that job. And he's close enough. .

I did get an interview for it, which ultimately just became a 1:1 with the boss and it gave us a chance to talk openly about where I see deficiencies that need fixing. All in all it went great. Six or so months later and I'm feeling a renaissance in the air at work. Like the things I talked about with him are now front-and-center and getting the attention they needed.

This company moves quite slowly, so six months (basically, new fiscal) seems incredibly quick.

And everyone clapped

Obviously, don't rely on them to read important emails for you. But so many things don't need additional checking. We've all done at least a decade of schooling. We all know basic math, science, and history. When we forget things, all it takes is a small reminder to get it back. Our brains are capable of recognizing whether we've seen something before or not. We're also capable of reasoning to determine whether something we read is consistent with everything else we know.

So many other things are also so unimportant that it doesn't matter at all if you're wrong. For example, some actor looks familiar, it lies to you about what film they were in, and you believe it. Is your life any worse off for it?

Are you trying to claim that nobody likes Facebook? That nobody like opioids? You can say that they're harmful, but that's not the argument OP was making. His point still stands.

First step will be that they'll slap ads into it. Afaik stuff like that is already planned.

Hard to tell if you're trolling or trying to add value to the conversation and just missing it.

A hammer doesn't know what it is building but it is still useful.

This is the nature of tools: for some they improve output, for some they don't.

I mostly agree. Machine Learning is AI, and LLMs are trained with a specific form of Machine Learning. It would be more accurate to say LLMs are created with AI, but themselves are just a static predictive model.

And people also need to realize that "AI" doesn't mean sentient or conscious. It's just a really complex computer algorithm. Even AGI won't be sentient, it would only mimic sentiency.

And LLMs will never evolve into AGI, any more than the Broca's and Wernicke's areas can be adapted to replace the prefrontal cortex, the cingulate gyrus, or the vagus nerve.

Annnnnd bought

AI has its uses.
You can critically think where to use it, and when. E.g. installing an open source AI on your computer that works offline.
I have used it to get pictures for my story characters.

Separate LLMs and AI.

This needs an NSFW tag my man

Read the post,it is there

That was December 2024.

McKinsey & Company consulting firm has agreed to pay $650 million to settle a federal investigation into its work to help opioids manufacturer Purdue Pharma boost the sales of the highly addictive drug OxyContin, according to court papers filed in Virginia on Friday.

Drug dealer must sell drugs.

It's just a really complex computer algorithm

Not particularly complex. An LLM is:

$P_\theta(x) = \prod_t \text{softmax}(f_\theta(x_{<t}))$

where $f$ is a deep Transformer trained by maximum likelihood.

It can be helpful for quickly summarizing a vast body of knowledge or a highly complex topic, to get a general overview and see which strings to pull further, as long as you don't take everything at face value and understand that you still need to pull those strings yourself in order to acquire an understanding.

Like, if I suddenly wanted to learn computer programming, I wouldn't know where to start. But querying an LLM can give me a general idea, define a few key terms and explain the difference between related concepts, without me having to browse through a hundred different tech blogs to answer all my questions in terms I can understand.

But I wouldn't suddenly think I'm a computer programmer after doing that. I would have a better idea of where to start learning. I would be able to decide whether to focus first on object-oriented programming or functional programming, static or dynamic typing, declarative or imperative syntax, etc., instead of getting overwhelmed from the start just trying to learn the differences between those concepts.

It can also suggest resources for further learning, books or websites written by humans, links to open-source software that does what I'm trying to do, etc.

I wouldn't expect it to write code for me, but it can be an efficient aid to self-learning and show me what programs and libraries to use for my intended purpose.

Or for astrophysics, for example. I wouldn't expect it to give me an accurate breakdown of the engineering specs required to build a pair of O'Reilly cylinders at a Lagrange point, but it can suggest software for rendering prototypes or for simulating the forces that need to be accounted for.

That wouldn't make me an astrophysicist, but it's kind of cool that you don't need to be one to learn about this stuff and tinker around in a field that's so vast and technical as to be otherwise prohibitive for non-experts.

It also depends on the LLM of course. I think Mistral and Lumo are generally pretty okay at doing what I described above. Their algorithms aren't corrupted by american venture capital, at least, so they have more incentive to give you an accurate response rather than being sycophantic and hugboxing.

That's... not how NSFW tags (or rather spoiler tags) work... You got to actually hide it so people that don't want to see NSFW don't have to see it. I can confidently say I saw the content of your image before I could even read the NSFW in your text, maybe because it's a huge 512x512 image.

You mean the average person defending the stance "Everybody hates this thing" isn't logical, or rational?
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It’s a shiny new tool, humans wanna use it on everything. Hopefully we find a balance. There’s a lot Ai can do that a human literally cannot, background work and such, I’ve seen it implemented in great ways. The problem isnt the tool, it’s the corporate dirtbags who want to maximize profits out of it

What do those pictures add to the story? Do you believe that because you're privileged enough to run it locally, that makes it ethical to use for you specifically, but not others that rely on datacenters?

So do computers.

They haven't even figured out how out make profit off of it, let alone maximize it. I really don't understand the current approach. "Let's slam this unfathomably expensive technology into everything and not turn a profit. Oh, also, it's destroying the environment and making electronics and power really expensive"

Which ai and for which use? It’s a tool. It’s like getting mad cause a guy invented a hammer. It’s not the tool hurting you dude, it’s the people wielding it.

It's the same as any other commercial tool. As long as it's profitable the owner will continue to sell it, and users who are willing to pay will buy it. You use commercial tools every day that are harmful to the environment. Do you drive? Heat your home? Buy meat, dairy or animal products?

I honestly don't know where this hatred for AI comes from; it feels like a trend that people jump onto because they want to be included in something.

AI is used in radiology to identify birth defects, cancer signs and heart problems. You're acting like its only use-case is artwork, which isn't true. You're welcome to your opinion but you're welcome to consider other perspectives as well. Ciao!

People need to explain in clear detail to others the environmental impact of ai and how it causes that impact. You’re telling people that making a funny photo is fucking up the environment, you have to be more clear.
Im not a dummy but the idea that ai is damaging the actual environment is vague and nebulous. It’s never been explained or shown to people in large way how it’s actually happening, so it’s not real to people because it’s not widely explained

t’s the same as any other commercial tool. As long as it’s profitable the owner will continue to sell it, and users who are willing to pay will buy it. You use commercial tools every day that are harmful to the environment. Do you drive? Heat your home? Buy meat, dairy or animal products?

I honestly don’t know where this hatred for AI comes from; it feels like a trend that people jump onto because they want to be included in something.

AI is used in radiology to identify birth defects, cancer signs and heart problems. You’re acting like its only use-case is artwork, which isn’t true. You’re welcome to your opinion but you’re welcome to consider other perspectives as well. Ciao!

The use cases don't cover the costs.

I mean, machine learning is great. I was replying to someone talking about using generative ai to make photos, not a doctor or a data scientist, to my knowledge.

Obama was there, he awarded the medal of honor, my parents were proud of me, the AI chump was instantly killed

Deleted. Happy? Heh

The problem is that even the open source models (and they're not fully open source anyway) aren't exactly trained ethically. They're still trained on stolen data, they are still consuming gargantuan quantities of water and using the same amount of power as a small city.

They are in no way harmless. The only thing that's better about them is that they don't steal your private data. The environmental issues are still there though.

I kinda love that response though, I'm going to save it. You can tell it's not even from a chatbox, it's just kinda too unhinged. Like 'oh you are curious how I view the ethics of my actions? You must hate cancer survivors.' I think ai bros do like to think of themselves as pushing the bounds of science, they don't see themselves as consumers.

Found someone who's more desperate to fit in than educate themselves about what "AI" means. Welcome to the club buddy, you made it! Congrats!

Have you ever been to a movie theater? What did the pictures add to the story?

That "deep Transformer trained by maximum likelihood" is the complex part.

Billions of parameters in a tensor field distributed over a dozen or more layers, each layer divided by hidden sizes, and multiple attention heads per hidden size. Every parameter's weight is algorithmically adjusted during training. For every query a matrix multiplication is done on multiple vectors to approximate the relevancy between each token. Possibly tens of thousands of tokens being stored in cached memory at a time, each one being analyzed relative to each other.

And for standard architecture, each parameter requires four bytes of memory. Even 8-bit quantization requires one byte per parameter. That's 12-24 GB RAM for a model considered small, in the most efficient format that's still even remotely practical.

Deep transformers are not simple systems, if they were then it wouldn't take such an enormous amount of resources to fully train them.

Our paper bills are money. "Truth" or not? If we as a society stop adhering to that system, the paper stops being money. The "truth" of money being paper has changed.

I think you're assuming that your philosophical view is objectively correct, and it's not. Sorry. The world doesn't revolve around you and you can't always be right. Hope that makes sense.

Love and blessings be upon you :))))))))

LLMs are shit, fuck LLMs. They fuel billionaires, destroy the environment, kill critical thinking, confidently tell you to off yourself, praise Hitler, advocate for glue as a pizza topping. This tech is a war on artists and free thought and needs to be destroyed. Stop normalizing, stop using it.

And AI is a pipe dream no one is close to fulfilling, won’t be realized by feeding LLMs all of the data in existence, and billionaires are destroying our economy in their pursuit of it.

Hey, that's your choice. I just asked you to mark it as NSFW as a common courtesy, I don't have any problem with it otherwise.

The pictures you got for your story are a result of plagiarism.

I'm not actually making a value judgement. If they make you happy, that's great and im happy for you.

Kinda like how diamond engagement rings make people happy. You gotta accept how that sausage was made

If that hammer also had massive environmental impacts and hammers were pushed into every aspect of your life while also stealing massive amounts of copyrighted data, sure. It's very useful for problems that can be easily verified, but the only reason it's good at those is from the massive amount of stolen data.

Nope. I've been using it for preliminary writing editing. It's not creating anything, just giving advice on how to make it clearer.

Lol I think I struck a nerve

In fairness, uploading consciousness into a computer is a pretty old sci-fi trope so it would have been derivative even before the AI bubble. That being said, tropes are tropes for a reason, don't let shitty real life "AI" stop you from writing that story. Just don't call use the term artificial intelligence and you're good

Ignoring the cost of something is incredibly immature.

Huh?

If your analysis of whether AI is good or bad is simply "I use it and I like it", then you are a child, or an adult with the mental capabilities of a child.

I'm happy life is so simple for you though!

It's in part because people aren't open to contradictions in their world view. In part you can't blame them for that since everyone has their own valid perspective. But staying willingly ignorant of positives and gray areas is a valid criticism. And sadly there are plenty of influencers peddling a black-white mindset on AI, ignoring all other uses. Not saying intentionally or not, again perspective. I'm sure online content creation has to contend with a lot more AI content compared to the norm. But only on the internet do I encounter rabidly anti AI people, in real life basically nobody cares. Some use it, some don't, most do so responsibly as a tool. And I work in the creative industry...

I would argue this isn't only a bad thing though. Even before AI, many bogus articles and information existed. Eg. that people swallow spiders in their sleep, which many outlets parroted.

I would guess most people never checked (m)any sources on most information they found so long as the 'vibe' felt trustworthy. There is no cure to make reality simple, and the more pressure we have to teach people to think critically, the better.

And then everyone clapped...
Blah, blah, blah.

And, I do not like AI.