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Schon bald sollen wir alle lästigen Aufgaben von intelligenten Chatbots wie ChatGPT und Co. in Form von KI-Agentensystemen erledigen lassen …
Schon bald sollen wir alle lästigen Aufgaben von intelligenten Chatbots wie ChatGPT und Co. in …
Wenn Sie irgendwo lesen, dass sprachmodellbasierte Systeme etwas verstehen, schlussfolgern oder ihnen irgendeine andere Problemlösefähigkeit zugesprochen wird, die Intelligenz, Bewusstsei oder Verständnis verlangt, fragen Sie sich zuerst, ob die vermeintliche Fähigkeit auch durch reine Assoziation von Texten zustande gekommen sein könnte. Wenn das möglich ist, bleiben Sie – nach dem Sparsamkeitsprinzip – bei der Hypothese, dass es sich um eine rein assoziative Fähigkeit handelt.
— Weiß die KI, dass sie nichts weiß? by Katharina Zweig (Page 213 - 214)
Schon bald sollen wir alle lästigen Aufgaben von intelligenten Chatbots wie ChatGPT und Co. in Form von KI-Agentensystemen erledigen lassen …
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - …
The Weinersmiths strike a pretty unusual but pleasant tone for a fairly critical nonfiction book. It covers a wide range of topics, interspersed with funny anecdotes and illustrations. What I like the most about it is that it doesn't shy away from discussing political and economic realities with a lot of pragmatism. Still, it's a light-hearted read over all and doesn't go super in-depth in any particular area.
My main criticism is probably that the authors were too charitable (imo) with some of the "space libertarians" out there, even though they poke fun at a lot of the ideas.
The Weinersmiths strike a pretty unusual but pleasant tone for a fairly critical nonfiction book. It covers a wide range of topics, interspersed with funny anecdotes and illustrations. What I like the most about it is that it doesn't shy away from discussing political and economic realities with a lot of pragmatism. Still, it's a light-hearted read over all and doesn't go super in-depth in any particular area.
My main criticism is probably that the authors were too charitable (imo) with some of the "space libertarians" out there, even though they poke fun at a lot of the ideas.
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, …
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, …
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% …
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered …
It is not possible to build a robot that can, all by itself, scan over a dozen history course reading lists and decide which is the best course.
— Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (Page 262)
I would be really curious to see how Graeber would elaborate on this point to take LLMs into consideration. How do they fit in with the idea of bullshit jobs? It certainly seems like the higher-ups of bullshit-prone businesses are the most vocal about how amazing LLMs are, and this particular example is something that, LLM proponents would argue, an LLM can actually do.
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered …
software engineering work [is] divided between the interesting and challenging work of developing core technologies, and the tedious labor of "applying duct tape" to allow different core technologies to work together [...] Paradoxically, the more that software engineers collaborate online to do free creative labor simply for the love of doing it, as a gift to humanity, [...] the more those same engineers will have to be employed in their day jobs [applying duct-tape].
— Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (Page 218 - 219)
Open source is a catalyst for the creation of bullshit jobs because in effect it means more and more software engineering amounts to "duct-taping". Interesting way to see it
Open source is a catalyst for the creation of bullshit jobs because in effect it means more and more software engineering amounts to "duct-taping". Interesting way to see it
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% …
Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the …
Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the …
