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Comment Re:What is thinking? (Score 1) 224

It's a logical error to make an analogy, without also demonstrating that it applies to the situation. (Common mistake when people discuss legal things, which is why such conversations are often confusing).

Comment Re:Let's be honest here (Score 1) 51

Despite what you may have read about curses of recursions which are completely divorced from reality outputs of LLMs are deliberately used to improve model quality.

"Using the outputs of LLMs to deliberately improve model quality" has nothing to do with model collapse. It reads like a PR release at best; at worst it's like LLM output.

Comment Re:This is a pessimistic take don't you think? (Score 1) 16

K-Pop Demon hunters is another example of "algorithmic content" (as they define it).

It's a random mix of things people like, throw them together and hope people pay for it. See also: CoD and Fortnite. No one cares if Star Trek and Star Wars stay separate anymore. I want to see Harry Potter riding a Bantha.

Comment Re:It's not supposed to be profitable (Score 1) 64

The wealthy prefer a dystopian hell hole for 99.9% of the population and extraordinarily god-like opulence for themselves. They want to be able to control who lives and who dies on such a fundamental level that they are like the Pharaohs of old literally exalted to godhood.

You cannot as a regular person comprehend the kind of greed that a man like Elon Musk or Bill Gates experiences as their normal state of being. It is way past just wanting money or yachts or any of that and into the point where they want to be transhuman.

And you need to understand that they do not think of you as a human being. You are not at the same level organically or as a species in their eyes. You aren't even at the level that you for example perceive a chimpanzee as in their eyes. To a guy like Elon Musk you're more like a slime mold. An utterly alien existence that might occasionally be useful.

Comment Re:It's not supposed to be profitable (Score 0) 64

I mean you could stop voting for right-wing politicians because you don't like queer people or brown people or whoever the fuck it is you don't like (in Japan it's certain job descriptions because the Japanese can't tell each other apart well enough to create racism).

You could also get over that stupid 12-year-old feeling of it's not fair when you see somebody having food and shelter without being miserable 40 hours or more per week.

But you're not going to do that. Or if you do your friends and family aren't. So like crabs in a bucket we are going to destroy ourselves.

I'm not acting like there's anything that can be done about it I'm just venting. Flaws in human reasoning and emotions mean our species is doomed and it is incredibly frustrating that we're all going to die for such a stupid and idiotic reason.

Who knows maybe one of the other species will take over after we kill ourselves. Smart money is on raccoons. A few more mutations and they'll have opposable thumbs. Beavers are also in the running.

Comment Not enough time (Score 1) 64

The population decline from low birth rates isn't drastic enough. You can look up how the math works out but there is a long tail of increased population growth before you see the crash. It has to do with how you already have all these people of childbearing age going through their lives.

So long before our population could adjust we're going to get hit with huge amounts of layoffs that will cause massive amounts of social strife. There's no getting away from it.

Comment Re:The experiment to train LLMs on LLM output begi (Score 1) 51

There won't be much of an experiment per se. In practice it will quickly devolve into a few big players that control platforms people use so that they can continuously access new training material.

So microsoft, Apple maybe and Facebook and possibly but probably not Twitter (since we just learned 80% of the accounts on Twitter are Russians and bangladeshies pretending to be American conservatives) will continue to thrive because they will be able to tell the difference between a bot and a human being thanks to their control of the platform.

Everyone else was just accessing free training data goes tits up soon. Some of them will be bought out.

In addition to devastating the job market and devouring electricity and water AI is also going to result in huge monopolies because it's a technology that lends itself to monopolies inherently.

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