I just used the voice feature in my truck to enter an address for Google maps like always, it came up as Gemini with a long speech. I repeated the address, it asked me if I wanted the location in my home city or one in a city over 400 miles away. Regression with exponential cost.
Makes me so angry. All the problems that couldve been solved with that kinda money. Climate crisis. World hunger. Population migration. Housing affordability.
If Trump triggered WW3 and we all got nuked id be fine with it. We don’t deserve to exist.
There was an ad during the Super Bowl that succinctly sums up how I feel right now: “America deserves Pepsi”
Why’s this need to be on the LLM? They control the app, can’t they just make a tool call out?
Hey, set a timer for 60 seconds.
ChatGPT analyzes text
You want a timer for 600 seconds, got it!
Sets timer for 600 seconds with api.
Tell me the name of person who needs an AI for setting up timers. It is useless as ****!
This is most unhinged take from both sides.
Time can’t exist in LLM by design: it’s just a thing that predicts next token based on previous tokens. There is no temporal relation between tokens. You can stop and resume generation at any point. How anyone expect it to “count time”? Based on what? The best you can do is add time mark to model input at some interval.
Simplifying, somewhat complex biological systems have some kind of clocks that actually chemically tick and induce some kind of signal that they can react on.
LLMs can’t do that like at all. They never will. Some other architecture that runs in cycles? Maybe. But transformer shit? Never ever.
The issue is that ChatGPT will tell you that it can do those things. Most of the hype for “AI” has been predicated on treating it like actual artificial intelligence and not the LLM parrot it truly is
I don’t think anybody is expecting an LLM to do it
what they are expecting is the product, chatGPT, to be a one-stop spot that can do basic tasks like that
Basically just rely on tool calling to a time server of some sort 🤷
To be fair, timers are hard.
if you have a variable clock speed, yeah.
Lets give it a try and see how far we get:
00:00:01
00:00:02
00:00:0E
00:00:0F
The hexadecimal value of 00:00:0F relates to an almost black color with a faint of blue — many call it the Commodore black as it was the same color as the ill-fated Commodore CDTV console, which was based on the Commodore 64 home computer. It is not only a nice color — it is also a statement of love for retro Commodore consoles.
Commodore.
Commodore.
Commodore.
Commodore.
Commodore.
Commodore.
Commodore.
Commodore.
ERROR! MODEL COLLAPSE DETECTED! TERMINATING SESSION AND CLEARING CONTEXT WINDOW.
Wednesday
I shall gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!
Seven. A.M. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not, I gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with my own guy no later than 4:30…
Blenteenth of Farglesblat
Dear Scat Altman, just add a timestamp at each response that the LLM can read
Its a Large Language Model, not a Large Number Model.
How about a small timer?
Alt-Man is a size queen.
Sam Altman wants funding right?
Here is an idea. I would pay 1000 dollars to get in a boxing ring with this guy, and probably a lot of other people would love to get a shot at that punchable face, no?
We have solved funding.
Shit like this is a reminder to me that a large portion behind some AI products’ hype are people who have no clue what these products even do. I wonder how the world would change, if these jack of all trades who
investwaste so much time into collecting ideas to fill up their pockets, instead spent more time on actually understanding the ideas they have chosen and build at least a fundamental knowledge.Upper management in a nutshell
I wonder how the world would change, if these jack of all trades who
investwaste so much time into collecting ideas to fill up their pockets, instead spent more time on actually understanding the ideas they have chosen and build at least a fundamental knowledge.I am afraid they would be even more dangerous
See, it does not understand time, so in order to.Vibe code in timer funxtionaloty, they need to start feeding it clocks.
He’s going to ask US Congress for a bailout with taxpayers money when this all fails and Congress is going to most likely give it to him because this one company is a huge part of the US economy
I don’t think so, and I’m on the Ed Zitron train of thought why not.
The financial instruments got a bailout in 08, because the economy itself would stop functioning. That’s different than the stocks would drop. Also, there’s like nothing to bail out? OpenAI and their ilk are just sucking down capital and returning nothing. Even if they get one bailout, they need a continuous stream of unlimited money forever? I don’t think it’ll happen.
I hope I’m right, cuz damn that shit is cancerous
I think a potential OpenAI “bailout” should go something like this:
- The investors get their money back.
- They have to sign a pact that they must not invest into AI anymore for a given amount of years (20+ minimum).
- Massive regulatory overhaul to make sure stuff like this never happen. Also undo Ford v. Dodge Brothers.
- Scam Altman and the others go to life in prison.
… why should the investors get their money back? They invested ludicrous amounts of money into a technology with obvious limitations from the start with the intention of using that technology to replace many people’s jobs. Losing that money will be a better lesson than some probably unenforceable “pact”.
They have to sign a pact that they must not invest into AI anymore for a given amount of years (20+ minimum).
Problem is this might hurt actual AI research to punish a scam that has absolutely nothing to do with AI other than having coopted the name for marketing purposes.
(Any investment in actual AI research is doomed for decades anyway when this bubble pops, but this would cause even more harm than the bubble has already caused.)
(Also any form of research is probably ruined for decades anyway due to LLM-induced brain rot and having to sift through all the slop to try to recover any remaining fragments of actually useable knowledge, but, again, let’s not make it even worse than it already is).
Even if it could, it would be an order of magnitude more inefficient in terms of convenience than the stopwatch we already have on our phones.
“Hey ChatGPT, do the thing I could have done in 3-4 clicks on my clock app.”
Not to mention the sheer wastefulness in terms of energy. A MINECRAFT REDSTONE MACHINE TIMER WOULD BE MORE EFFICIENT. (Not to mention that, unlike SOTA LLMs, it can run offline on a phone)
You are correct but I think you are missing the point.
Remember, from the perspective of all AI companies (OpenAi probably more than most), AI is this monster tech that will surely replace all workers and even your Grandma as it can bake better cookies.
This is yet another display of how lacking AI is in a simple, everyday task… but more importantly, it is a gigantic demonstration of how AI is completely blind to its own weaknesses which is what makes it really really dangerous when used as prescribed by OpenAi and the others
This situation is basically the same as when the brand new $700 iPhones (back when that was eye watering expensive for a phone) could not run an alarm in the mornings and Apple’s answer was something like “why are you using your Cadillac phone as a cheap alarm?”… it should fucking wake me up with a massage for that cost!
Oh yeah, that’s definitely a problem too. And part of the problem is that AI companies seem to be blind to the LLMs’ weaknesses as well.
minecraft is turing-complete, so, like, you can do a whole lot more than just be a timer.
People have coded Minecraft in Minecraft.
Absolutely. I was thinking of getting back into minecraft Redstone but I’d rather do it in a non-Microsoft alternative. Not to mention at least a dozen other projects on my backlog
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Yeah, I’d be playing minecraft, too, especially with my nephew, but uhm. that whole microslop thing ruins it for me.
We do enjoy space engineers, though. (lots of mining, lots of building. Nephew loves it when Klang accepts our sacrifices.) It’s a bit more involved than minecraft, though.
(but niftishly, there’s programable blocks that will let you write c# code and… do things.) (space engineers 2 is in early access if you have the hardware.)
You might like Logic World
It looks interesting, but I’m looking for something with more… world in it. Something to use my logic circuits with (count storage items, simple store, item mail system…)
Scam Altman sounds like it’s a name straight from an hltv comment section, I love it
That is genuinely hilarious!
