@Techaltar I'm also vomit-in-mouth disgusted by the gullibility and manipulativeness whenever I see a headline like "AI finds tumors" and everyone is like "see, ChatGPT is intelligent!". The way AI has been reduced to a meaningless word has destroyed a lot of truly useful AI research

@Techaltar I believe a chat interface is a very inefficient way to interact with the computer, that's why all the long LLM text files are needed, but we are lulled into a false sense of usability because they are manipulative in they way they respond. There are probably other more efficient ways to use LLMs, but they are not shiny or flashy and therefore don't convince investors or users. RAG is very neat and a powerful lookup technology, but everyone suddenly expects a conversation partner

@Techaltar it's not that it's useless, it's that it is dangerous. And I don't mean sci-fi movie dangerous, but "let's centralize all computation and knowledge with a few fascist companies and have the interaction with them be a manipulative chat bot". It scares me that people are relying on LLMs and that they are the ultimate manipulation tool owned by the least trustworthy people in the world. It scares me that they seem to destroy the alternatives to computation before they have a product