"AI needs a lot of code."
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"AI needs a lot of code."
No. It needs a lot of data and compute. But the amount of code required is comparatively small and comparatively simple.
People think of "AI" as these huge and complex IT systems when the coding part is mostly 200 Lines of Python.
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"AI needs a lot of code."
No. It needs a lot of data and compute. But the amount of code required is comparatively small and comparatively simple.
People think of "AI" as these huge and complex IT systems when the coding part is mostly 200 Lines of Python.
@tante I've wondered how much of a pseudo-NLP code there is in user input processing (to "defuse" prompts from "problematic" content) and similarly at the output side so that the end user doesn't see "too much". Gut feel tells me a lot of the so called guardrails are just a bunch of "greps" at input or output.
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"AI needs a lot of code."
No. It needs a lot of data and compute. But the amount of code required is comparatively small and comparatively simple.
People think of "AI" as these huge and complex IT systems when the coding part is mostly 200 Lines of Python.
@tante This is a little bit misleading and only very, very superficially true, though! Behind these 200 lines of code of userland code are layers and layers of _ginormous_ frameworks with millions of lines of code and the industry just keeps piling on more layers and facades all the time. Enduser AI code is so extremely abstracted and so far removed from any actual concrete implementations and hardware resources, it's not even funny anymore...
The old joke was that Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing (due to Lisp being highly inspectable and abstracted). For AI code operating atop these frameworks, not even the values are fully known anymore and the true cost of any operation has become a complete mystery. This is an aspect which actually is being sold as and treated as benefit, since this entire approach operates on the idea of infinite resource availability... a wilful ignorance of the costs involved in these workflows is requirement to work this way.
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