froztbyte @ froztbyte @awful.systems

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many of the proponents of things in this field will propose/argue $x thing to be massively valuable for $x

thing is, that doesn't often work out

yes, there's some value in the tech for translation outcomes. to anyone even mildly online, "so are language teaching apps/sites using this?" is probably a very nearby question. and rightly so!

and then when you go digging into how that's going in practice, wow fuck damn doesn't that Glorious AI Future sheen just fall right off...

...wat

also, unless extraneous circumstance, please don't clip their display of abusive nonsense

I bet they'd just haaaate it to be on the internet, and yet it's exactly the kind of fingerprint of theirs that people should be able to find

on the one hand I feel for other people who'll maybe read this thread somewhen down the line

on the other, it's not exactly like I clipped words in my post

I moderately regret this post

because the counterposter in question went on to have some decidedly "fucking ugggggggh" posts

ah well. so we learn.

maybe train your model better! I know I know, they were already supposed to be taking over the world... alas...

jesus fuck how do you fail to understand any post of this kind this badly

RIP my hopes and dreams :<

like LLM like shithead

fuck, there's potential here, but a bit too specific for a t-shirt?

like like like idiot

perhaps?

oh, I get it, you personally choose not to make these structurally-repeatable-by-foundation errors? you personally choose to be a Unique And Correct Snowflake?

wow shit damn, I sure want to read your eventual uni paper, see what kind of distinctly novel insight you've had to wrangle this domain!

(also I did my disclaimer at the start there, so, y'know (but also igwym))

woo! but still also check out pomsky, it's legit handy!

a'ight, sure bub, let's play

tell me what hw spec I need to deploy some kind of interactive user-facing prompt system backed by whatever favourite LLM/transformer-model you want to pick. idgaf if it's llama or qwen or some shit you've got brewing in your back shed - if it's on huggingface, fair game. here's the baselines:

• expected response latencies: human, or better
• expected topical coherence: mid-support capability or above
• expected correctness: at worst "I misunderstood $x" in the sense of "whoops, sorry, I thought you were asking about ${foo} but I answered about ${bar}"; i.e. actual, contextual, concrete contextual understanding

(so, basically, anything a competent L2 support engineer at some random ISP or whatever could do)

hit it, I'm waiting.

how dare I use someone's own words against them!

You can experiment on your own GPU

you have lost the game

you have been voted off the island

you are the weakest list

etc etc etc

also

I’ve spent 6+ years of my life in compsci academia

eh. look.

I realize you'll probably receive/perceive this post negatively, ranging as anywhere from "criticism"/"extremely harsh" through ... "condemnation"?

but, nonetheless, I have a request for you

please, for the love of ${deity}, go out and meet people. get out of your niche, explore a bit. you are so damned close to stepping in the trap, and you could do not-that.

(just think! you've spent a whole 6+ years on compsci? now imagine what your next 80+ years could be!)

ah yes, my ability to read a pdf immediately confers upon me all the resources required to engage in materially equivalent experimentation of the thing that I just read! no matter whether the publisher spent cents or billions in the execution and development of said publication, oh no! it is so completely a cost paid just once, and thereafter it's totally free!

oh, wait, hang on. no. no it's the other thing. that one where all the criticisms continue to hold! my bad, sorry for mistaking those. guess I was roleplaying a LLM for a moment there!

space alien technology!!~

My most honest goal is to educate people

oh and I suppose you can back that up with verifiable facts, yes?

and that you, yourself, can stand as a sole beacon against the otherwise regularly increasing evidence and studies that both indicate toward and also prove your claims to be full of shit? you are the saviour that can help enlighten us poor unenlightened mortals?

sounds very hard. managing your calendar must be quite a skill

this isn't the place to decide which seed generator you want for your autoplag runtime