That's a good analogy. We know how LLM's work as well as we do dice. No magic there. Unless you go far into the rabbithole of metaphysics.

Lack of knowledge and understanding of the world. Semi-smart people stuffed with unrelevant and incorrect information. Paired with an abundance of confidence.

If you don't want to be forgotten, don't create the circumstances that eventually lead to you being so, right?

Only if you're alright being fed incorrect information. Most people are, mostly because they rarely discover the errors. That sentiment is shifting with the public embarrasments that are surfacing. Recently a swedish minister misquoted an opponent, fed by a chabot. People will learn eventually.

She would know artificial, have to give her that.

Sure, like fusion energy. We can hope it is solved, but shouldn't hold our breaths.

It is an engineering problem. But a very hard one. Because the LLMs don't understand logic and symbolic tools don't understand natural language. Fact checking is hard if you don't even understand what a fact (or in fact any concept at all) is.

Hear! Hear!

They can't win. Because they can't change what is true. Truth is eternal, it doesn't succomb. Sooner or later there will be a judgement day. Oh, I long for that day!

That sums up why I read you and a select few others who have the strength to see the world as it is with no filter.

Hundreds of billions in - garbage out. Classic efficient market move.

Welcome!

... and that if you have to, why not just go directly to where you would verify it? Where's the efficiency in checking with the hallucinating oracle first?

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Powerpoint presentation ready! Beware stock image photographers!

Interesting palm tree! Never seen 2 of them merge like that. But yeah - it's small office powerpoint ready. Let's see that disruptive global productivity boost go through the roof!

It's arguably better. Still weird, though. Non connected trees, weird shadows. Where is the sun coming from? But if you don't need quality it'll work.

The photorealism and lack of elephants is stunning.

Agreed. You kind of have to give people a heads up that what you are writing is fiction. Especially if it's published in a context where you expect non-fiction.

Eventually. But there's a risk it won't happen in time. Our elites also love money more than they love truth. And military spending is inflationary.

To be fair, their level of idiocy is stable.

It's incredible people still believe trickle-down economics work. You'd be forgiven for doing so in the 1980's and 90s. But now? Grow up and read up on the hard science.

Hmm ... haven't read the study. But if it wasn't a randomized controlled experiment I would highly suspect that there could be a correlation/causation issue here. One would think less critical thinkers are more prone to use generative AI?

The hard part is sharing the things you love more than the things you don't ...

Which is very similar to the stock market. Just more distilled to it's essence.

What streaming service?