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Comment Re:Journalism died decades ago (Score 1) 150

Most people with their casual interest in current events and high school educations arent equipped to handle figuring out what's real or not via their social media feeds.

Instead, they believe that things are real because they saw them on a three-letter shit factory on the teevee, because they aren't equipped to know that it's a lot of bullshit. The difference is, they might find some facts on social media.

Comment What a messy story and attached article (Score 1) 22

It took some work to try and decode what this story was really about, and what the actual goals of the paper abstract were trying to accomplish. This looks like a thinly veiled fanboi attempt to heap even more hype on LLMs. The goal seems to be to create a standard to use to judge both how 'useful' LLMs have become, and to monitor progress and identify specific shortfalls and areas that still need improvement. All the social circles and web sites that seem interested in this all appear to be very pro LLM. As goals go, I guess I can't be overly critical. LLM does seem to have some niche use cases where it is actually useful, and improving it seems a worthy goal. But that seems far out of proportion to the type machine behind it all. In the early 90s I went into college thinking I would be part of the cohort that would unlock strong AI. I left college thinking that current efforts were basically impossible, and we'd need some new innovations to produce new and meaningful paths forward. I remain confused with those who seem to think LLM is that path. I agree it has things to teach us on the path towards AGI, but I still don't see it as an important breakthrough towards that goal. And, of course, all the hype makes it very difficult to try and discern fact from fiction.

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