Did nobody really question the usability of language models in designing war strategies?

  • @anteaters@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Did nobody really question the usability of language models in designing war strategies?

    Correct, people heard “AI” and went completely mad imagining things it might be able to do. And the current models act like happy dogs that are eager to give an answer to anything even if they have to make one up on the spot.

    • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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      161 year ago

      LLM are just plagiarizing bullshitting machines. It’s how they are built. Plagiarism if they have the specific training data, modify the answer if they must, make it up from whole cloth as their base programming. And accidentally good enough to convince many people.

      • @huginn@feddit.it
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        31 year ago

        To be fair they’re not accidentally good enough: they’re intentionally good enough.

        That’s where all the salary money went: to find people who could make them intentionally.

        • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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          31 year ago

          GPT 2 was just a bullshit generator. It was like a politician trying to explain something they know nothing about.

          GPT 3.0 was just a bigger version of version 2. It was the same architecture but with more nodes and data as far as I followed the research. But that one could suddenly do a lot more than the previous version, so by accident. And then the AI scene exploded.

          • Limitless_screaming
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            21 year ago

            It was the same architecture but with more nodes and data

            So the architecture just needed more data to generate useful answers. I don’t think that was an accident.

      • @TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        It kind of irks me how many people want to downplay this technology in this exact manner. Yes you’re sort of right but in no way does that really change how it will be used and abused.

        “But people think it’s real AI tho!”

        Okay and? Most people don’t understand how most tech works and that doesn’t stop it from doing a lot of good and bad things.

        • @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          I’ve been through a few AI winters and hype cycles. It made me very cynical and convinced many overly enthusiastic people will run into a firewall face first.