Taggart :donor: on Nostr: Wait, actual...reason from Meta's CTO? And then on the second thing, I think a lot of ...
Wait, actual...reason from Meta's CTO? And then on the second thing, I think a lot of that anxiety about these large language models is pretty misplaced. I think [Meta Chief AI Scientist] Yann LeCun has said it really well. They are a super interesting and important tool. I think of it as an associative database. They don’t have agency, they don’t have reasoning, or planning skills. They don’t have a theory of the world or a theory of mind. And they’re not on a path to having those things. And we’re already seeing diminishing returns on model size and model scaling.And also, this is not AGI. It’s not like the thing itself taken to the absolute limit is AGI. What was the old quote that Von Neumann said about Oppenheimer? ‘Sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it.’ I think there’s a lot of that going around in the Valley sometimes. I’m not saying people don’t believe it. Maybe they do. But I don’t.www.semafor.com/article/12/20/2023/meta-cto-andrew-bosworth-on-the-generative-ai-craze
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