LLMs that can spot tumors better than humans can

Are they though? LLMs specifically? Seems like a very strange use case for an LLM.

But yeah we’re mostly in accordance, I wanted to riff a little bit because as a long-time tech worker I actually do have some bones to pick with the tech itself. The in-exactitude of its output and the “let the prompter beware” approach to dealing with its obvious inadequacies pisses me off and it seems like the perfect product for the current “test in production” “MVP (minimally viable product)” “pre-order the incomplete version” state software is in generally. The marketing and finance assholes are nearly fully running the show at this point and it’s evident.

I think the usefulness of this particular technology (LLMs) is very overblown and I found its very early usages more harmful than helpful (i.e. autocorrect/autocomplete is wrong for me more often than it is right). It has decent applicability in some areas (machine translation for instance is pretty good), but the marketing department got hold of it and so now everything is AI this and AI that.

I think it’s basically just another over-hyped technology that will eventually shake out to be used only where it is useful enough to justify its cost. If the company has to show profits at any point it is either going to go the surveillance capitalism ad route, or it’ll have to increasingly charge more per query than the gibberish it generates is really worth. I don’t see most people paying for ChatGPT long-term so they’ll probably have to enshittify further beyond their current (already kind of shitty) state.

Ultimately, the structure of the modern corporation was allowed to take on a lot more complexity due to the advent of computers. So, we have fewer roles where people do full-time work managing inboxes or whatever (though not zero, because that is essentially what my wife still does for work), but more roles have an “inbox management” or other secretarial component to them now.

In practically every job, it became the case that you’re also a part-time secretary. Assistants became mainly a luxury reserved for fat cats, and the rest of us plebs are buried in emails.

The issue people have with AI isn’t the tech.

I have multiple issues with the tech:

1. It’s based upon a giant theft and mass violation of copyright laws as well as the licenses of lots of open source software.

2. It’s ClippyGPT and much of the output is either hallucinations or trite non-sense that sounds like it was cooked up in the most bureaucratic weak-willed corporate boardroom.

3. Its massive energy footprint to inefficiently solve math equations (for instance) is completely and thoroughly ridiculous.

4. I don’t want to type bullshit into a chat bot in order to look something up…this is a step below even the absurd modern substitute for documentation of “go watch this 2 hour YouTube video on my development framework”.

5. “Miniature model” and “fine-tuned model” results could have been much more easily achieved by just having functional site / domain search engines.

Further about the last point, I feel like the open source part of the industry chased Google until it got to Lucene and then decided that an open source altavista was completely fine and dandy and stopped pursuing the goal of making their own search engines functional. So people had to continue to use Google until now and when Google has enshittified into a crappy, worse AI model for search now all we have left are chat bots that are maybe slightly better than altavista, but frequently spout out inaccurate information that they guess would exist.

The keyboard warriors instantly became experts on labor negotiations /s, even though they seemingly haven’t had the elementary realization that demands are movable in a negotiation, and you don’t negotiate by saying “oh, I actually make quite enough money compared to poor workers in Alabama with no union representation and I love the current benefits thank you kindly, sir”.

It would depend upon the type of business. Modern office buildings filled with “information workers” weren’t a thing 50 years ago so it is kind of difficult to compare.

I can feel this science in my bones.

Dude, secretaries and assistants still exist.

The future portion of this list reads like something produced from ChatGPT.

Dude looks and sounds like a reanimated corpse.

Fascists are strange creatures indeed.

They claim to be all about logic and rationality, but even a little bit of either blows apart their entire worldview.

“They’re taking all of your jobs” while “they’re lazy and stealing all of the welfare money”.

“It’s simply the natural order” yet “we need brutal enforcement to keep it in place”.

“It’s free speech” yet “ban the books, ban the journalism, jail the journalists”.

“America did not do anything wrong” yet “we cannot teach portions of American history”.

“War is terrible” yet “we’ll blow them to smithereens”.

“College education is useless liberal indoctrination” yet “I was incredibly smart which you can tell because I went to Wharton” and “I graduated from Yale”.

“Thoughts and prayers are all we can offer for shooting victims because bans won’t work” but “let’s ban abortion”.

why wouldn’t companies have a failsafe for their equipment being used against them

Because they got tired of paying for the whiny engineers that would have to implement the failsafe and so they fired them all.

Brave Sir Trump ran away,

Bravely ran away, away.

When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.

Yes, brave Sir Trump turned about

And gallantly, he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet,

He beat a very brave retreat,

Bravest of the brave, Sir Trump.

I think it’s a good barometer when trying a new Chinese restaurant. Like if they fuck up on orange chicken they’re probably terrible in general. I do the same thing with Tikka Masala at an Indian place I’m trying for the first time.

Sure, “no man sets foot in the same river twice”, but that does nothing to argue against the preservation of cultural items.

Take music, for instance. I never feel the same way the second time listening to a song as I did the first time, but that doesn’t make the music less special or change anything about it at all, and it certainly does nothing to advance a hypothetical argument that music shouldn’t be recorded or that the recordings of it shouldn’t be preserved for future enjoyment or different audiences.

I was going to watch the debate and then I realized that I never watched any other VP debate and don’t remember anyone even discussing anything about them ever and so I decided to go out and have a couple of beers instead.

Yeah I’m not sure for everyone but it solved my problems with the phone being too big to fit in my pockets. It even works in like pajama pants for when I’m walking the dog. Before, the phone tended to be too long and flop out.

The vast majority of sitting presidents run completely unopposed by their own party for re-election to a second term.

Who, do you propose, would disallow him to run?

WHY ISN’T BIDEN DOWN THERE THROWING PAPER TOWEL ROLLS AT THE GEORGIANS!?! /s

What’s with Twitter bots acting like Kamala Harris is already the President?

That’s the new attack line…the absolutely stupid charge that “Harris had 3.5 years to accomplish her presidential agenda while VP. Why didn’t she accomplish it yet?”…and a large portion of the country will probably buy it as a fair critique (because they’re idiots) despite it being obviously nonsensical.