LLMs are doing things like summarizing videos and then using the summaries to answer queries that before would have been a search result with monetization.
Google’s executives are unconcerned about the declinibg incentives to create YouTube videos having been sold on the lie that the future of the internet lies in Ai generated content. In other words robots will make the internet.
Robots which hallucinate constantly.
Yes and yes. What is crazy to me is that the owners of social media want more than profits. They also have a political agenda and are willing to tip the scales against any politician who opposes their interests or the interests of their major shareholders. Facebook promoted right wing disinformation campaigns against leaders who they disliked such as mark Carney. Their shareholders should be sued into oblivion and their c levels thrown into prison. Yet our legal system forbids this.
Everything in recent years has gone sideways. Murdoch initially wanted to build Fox News around Obama but was overruled by Roger Ailes according to reports. Ailes wanted to build conservative propaganda networks whereas Murdoch wanted people watching the news.
Jeff Bezos’s wapo and Murdoch have become allies in exposing the Epstein pedophilia network. And oddly also Walmart. This must have to do with the tariffs and ultimately the economic impact of the tariffs.
Thats encouraging to hear. Six months without rejection or encystment is good. Human trials are going to require a longer period though but the new membrane technology is looking promising. Hope this reaches patients rapidly if it works out
The previous attempts either the cells were destroyed by the immune system or they became engulfed in fibrotic tissue
How do they prevent the immune system from attacking the islet cells? The researchers in another study from a company once called ViaCyte have said that the cells (which are protected by a special membrane) were still getting attacked by the immune system and they end up becoming encapsulated by fibrotic structures. They were working on improving the membrane though but I don’t know if this method is in trials right now.
I apologize for implying anything offensive. Would you have any favorite treatment in trials? There was one method being developed at UBC which protected the langerfield cells using an artificial barrier that seemed the most promising. All the stem cell therapies failed afaik because they did not address immunity.
It seemed to me that immunotherapy combined with stem cell therapy was the best option but my knowledge of this subject is not great
So far the stem cell treatments have failed because the t1d patients’ immune systems tend to attack insulin producing cells. Its unfortunately not yet a viable treatment
They are both great and also biased. Because LLM training data includes vast libraries of history books, including such works as Dark Alliance, it is capable of running down paths that few historians would walk. I recently used an LLM to find an unimpeachable source for the CIA’s connection to cocaine trafficking aircraft. This was not available through a simple Google search because the site was likely deindexed.
They are promoting the disproven conspiracy theory that illegals are impersonating US citizens and then casting ballots under false names.
Greg Palast’s reporting proved that they are trying to purge minority and left leaning voters from voting rolls.
I know what you mean. All the code generated with ai was loaded with problems. Specifically it kept forcing my api keys into the code without using environmental variables. But for basic coding concepts it has so far been perfect. even a 3b model seemingly generates great definitions
Snippets are a great use.
I use StableCode on my phone as a programming tutor for learning Python. It is outstanding in both speed and in accuracy for this task. I have it generate definitions which I copy and paste into Anki the flashcard app. Whenever I’m on a bus or airplane I just start studying. Wish that it could also quiz me interactively.
It’s a huge disaster in the making. There’s probably a game theory model that explains what’s happening but damned if i know it. AI is a trap.
At the beginning of LLMs as a consumer tech phase, the big tech companies believed that they would soon generate synthetic data without human labor costs. But synthetic data caused model collapse when used as training data. So they still need humans.
But now their competitors are using scrapers and summarizers and those are expensive so they have to extract more value from search traffic and that means fewer referrals to sites. Fewer referrals to sites reduces original content and leadabto less traffic and training data for their models.
The only two ways out are to create an international regulatory body ornto break up facebook, microspft, and google.
There are different studies which show a shockingly high percent of the population are fools but the most compelling is the one by Cambridge Analytica which found a population cluster in Facebook’s massive amount of user data. They called this the average cluster.
The Republicans targeted this group in the 2016 election. Around 30 percent of the b population fall into this group.
There are small language models out there that can run fluently on smartphones. I’m fond of StableCode as a coding tutor. My dream is to be able to speak to the tutor and see its code instructions without having to dig my phone out.
Going off what I’ve read, on the more severe end of the NPD spectrum you have malignant narcissism and anti-social personality disorder, which are widely regarded as being untreatable:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651070550020701
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-019-0147-1
A lot of research strongly suggests that narcissism is actually a personality trait.
All of the research indicates that people on the far end of the narcissistic spectrum cannot be treated. NPD seems to be rooted in personality rather than it being a treatable illness. Trying to treat them would be like trying to make an intellectual person no longer curious about the world around them.
Post modernism seems to be overly concerned with the human condition being like wet clay. Moldable into anything. But evidence suggests that some people can be selfish, sadistic and disagreeable because of evolution. No amount of therapy can make them less selfish. Pharnaceutical research suggests that some drugs can very briefly allow narcissists to experience empathy. But no therapy has shown to work reliably on extreme cases.
It’s odd to me that someone would feel the need to compensate for their socially awkward highschool years by learning Brazilian Ju-Jitsu and taking growth hormone. You’d think being rich would be enough for these people but it’s not.
For a brief period of time, I entertained the hope that the t-shirt was Zuck’s way of warning the world that the US was slipping into a fascist dictatorship, but that was not the case. It seems clear that that he wore the shirt out of hubris. It was his way of telling the world that he was the modern era’s Caeser and the two others men running the failing superstate were crassus and pompey. An absolutely mindless message given how it ended for all three of these men.
By the way, isn’t the word “commode” derived from Commodus? We should name something after Zuck. Perhaps this new strain of bird flu that’s been spreading wildly because of a lack of a federal response?
It occurred right around when the kingdom in orange took power. Somehow zuck thought that it would be advantageous to his interests to compare himself to Caesar during an obvious triumvirate. The orange one and phony stark would be crassus and pompey by extension. But I think commodus is a far more appropriate roman emperor for zuck to choose as his patron saint
Even fun videos get search traffic from random queries. A video about robots fighting each other will get traffic from people interested in “robots fighting”, “robots wars”, “robowars”, “armored core”, “Gundam series”
When there are ai summaries for informational or navigational queries there will be fewer clicks because Google will pirate listicle sources of “best robots fighting each other articles”. This means they are stealing from older lists and newer videos will not get mentioned in the ai summary.
This is because ai technology can’t judge the quality of a video.