LLMs exhibit emergent properties as they scale, we should assume the same will happen as we run divergent models in parallel.
By asking a rhetorical question and then refuting a position that wasn't asked is a Straw Man, the reference to 10k monkeys is a false analogy, your 10k LLMs answer to the question no one asked is a hasty generalization. How have you shown that 10k LLMs won't fix straw-problem?
I pasted the beginning of Hamlet into GPT-4 and it went on a run.
So it seems that the chance of producing one of Shakespeare works no longer requires each work in the play to be randomly chosen in isolation, just enough correct word guesses to get the LLM into the groove.
"ChatGPT, please generate 100 random words, then interpret them as the beginning of a literary work and complete the work."
This is real progress. Many many monkeys may no longer be needed.
Unfortunately I disagree as LLMs are not traditional software and not input /output systems. Additionally, like other types of high value, power imbued software like say credit scoring engines and b2 bomber flight controls, the maintainers of AI systems will be the equivalent of high priests.
The controllability of output of AI by merely writing code is not something that exists today and what we call bugs in traditional software is not the same concept as a slightly incorrect or completely fabricated LLM response.
Software engineers need to start having serious conversations about whether non contract employment is even a good idea.
Yes there are pitfalls to permanent contracting, and some folks dont have the stomach for it. As a contractor, I see employees doing less and less dedicated work, and also when it comes to devops training and cloud adoption employees usually seem behind the curve.
Just because something has a cost doesn't mean it's irreplacable or rare.
There's other things that cost alot on a vehicle, wheels and tires on an SUV cost more or about equal to the catalytic converter, so by design wheels and tires are from a supply and demand perspective more precious and rare than catalytic converters.
What thieves choose to steal has nothing to do with scarcity and everything to do with convenience. While these small amounts of precious metals may sound important rare earth metals are literally everywhere.
Were just too rich to care about mining them in the first world.
It's not just convenience but if you swipe a set of four wheels it's much more obvious that they're missing just by looking at the car and now you need to go find a pawn shop that's going to take these four wheels and tires. Law enforcement has done a pretty good job of working with pawn shops to avoid this kind of stuff although it still does exist.
The catalytic converter is very quick to steal as long as the thieves have a brain and know what one looks like but most importantly if the car is just sitting in a driveway you can't tell anything has been done to it. Also metal recyclers traditionally haven't been looped in with law enforcement for this kind of thing and recyclers tend to be a lot more shady because there's less oversight. Once something's been recycled you can't really tell what it was before.
Most other parts on a car the melt value is almost nothing in relation to the effort it takes to get it. Catalytic converter the melt value is very very high in proportion.
I'm not currently in a region that's experiencing that problem as far as I know. It probably comes down to the recyclers trying harder to be honest in my region.
Yup the metal recyclers up my way are .. or were pretty shady, big companies even. Almost 2 decades ago I had One Steel nick an old tractor that was at a property they were cleaning up ... it's theft and I let them know it but of course they didn't offer anything but shrugs, unfortunately I've got a big mouth, no police or nothing, and other people would have been keeping a keen eye the same sort of BS didn't repeat -- it's been a while and I don't see them cleaning up much in the last few years :) The same area in the last few years also gained an independent metal merchant paying the best money for copper and whatnot - I can bet he is a lot more careful when his own lavish property was hit a couple of years ago, from what the big story in the local news reported, had to be a very organised gang of people that went for a lot what seemed to me, of not very traditional things to nick ... I could easily assume he'd PO someone how knew how to make their point - don't be part of any fucking thieving.
Hoarding terabytes is sort of a thing you can never get your head around unless you are stealing mp3s.
But hoarding gigabytes is pretty easy, also I think the term hoarding is pretty loaded language in this context? Saving things so they don't get lost is the way to go.
Just as an example, after Steve Jobs died apple went into everyone's email at .me and deleted their emails between them and SJ.
The old boys club which has been outsourcing programmer for 20 years to India figured out that they can just fake it since nobody has complained yet.
And before software engineers unionize they came up with some snake oil to put us in our place, maybe try to force us back into offices, or just eliminate us.
Nobody can deny that Sam Altman and Bill Gates have been trying to "reduce costs" for a long time. The startups with devs in portugal, costa rica, Mexico, Spain, the Ukraine, India, China, anyplace where they can pay 5 dollars for a day's work.
When Bill gates said he would pay programmers 7 dollars an hour, we were all offended, we didn't realize that he was already doing it and that would be a significant raise in pay.
> The startups with devs in portugal, costa rica, Mexico, Spain, the Ukraine, India, China, anyplace where they can pay 5 dollars for a day's work.
I can speak to Portugal and Spain at least, and there's no chance you could ever get people in either of those to work for you at $5/day. You'd be laughed out of the room/conference call. And I'm pretty sure that's true for the rest of the list too.
The idea that training a machine on fiction owned by others and facts published with distribution rights can be surfaced in a LLM is not only absurd, it's illegal, locally and internationally.
Bring your horse and your carriage, you will lose to the human race before your horse clears the first turn.
