Instead of comp, here’s a pool table. That’ll keep everyone in the office!
Instead of comp, here’s a pool table. That’ll keep everyone in the office!
My favorite way to end brushing my teeth.
I had not thought about having the sunscreen leech into the water. Thank you for educating!
How do you will yourself to the right thing? Is it a matter of creating the right environment? Being mindful?
Yeah, but one day the thousands of browser bookmarks will come in handy. Right?
It’s crazy to me that we live in a world where money and celebrity implies influence, and credentials don’t mean much on a general public stage. This man can tweet something insane and its taken as a serious discussion point.
Given that money can buy influence, it is a legitimate risk to society, I get that. But how crazy is that as a concept?
It’s actually pretty shocking. It seems so normal to struggle to buy a house, yet most of the last generation have one. It’s going to be a rude awakening for society as this trend continues. At some point the older generation is going to pass on and free up houses. What is that even going to look like? Are they going to be jacked up too? It’s just not sustainable if you project it out. There has to be a tipping point. People need homes and renting is so limiting.
https://engineering.fb.com/2015/05/04/core-data/under-the-hood-facebook-s-cold-storage-system/
This is an article from 2015 where Facebook/Meta was exploring Blu-ray for their DCs. You’re definitely right though. Tape is key as the longest term storage.
This is such a great example of the potential consequences of making a decision without understanding the landscape/context. It’s obvious this would happen in hindsight.
Super cool, blew my mind! I would love to see it in operation. The logistics from the machine side + the storage heuristics for when to store to a disc that’s write-only sounds like a really cool problem.
There was an article recently about this (too lazy to search it). It’s already starting to happen. If most of the content they train on is the internet and more internet content is created by LLMs without being tagged as AI generated content (can’t be guaranteed by all actors), then it’s inevitable. High signal training data is out the window.
There are also techniques where data centers do offline storage by writing out to a high volume storage medium (I heard blueray as an example, especially because it’s cheap) and storing it in racks. All automated of course. This let’s them store huge quantities of infrequently accessed data (most of it) in a more efficient way. Not everything has to be online and ready to go, as long as it’s capable of being made available on demand.
The concern with LLM’s as any sort of source of truth is that they have no concept of facts or truth. They simply read training material and then pattern match to come up with a response to input. There is no concept of correct information. And unless you fact check it, you will not know if it is correct or it’s reasoning is sound. Using this to teach is dangerous IMO. Using the word reasoning is a anthropomorphising it too; it’s just pattern matching.
Could we develop some adversarial system that fact checks it in the future? Possibly. But I don’t know of one that’s effective. Besides, good luck determining what is true when your training set is the internet. Or having it account for advances in understanding.
From the article you linked:
That’s a very naive take on LLMs. It assumes that because the training material is valid, it’s output is valid. It is not!
I worry about the future where LLMs become the basis of information exchange because outputs “look right”.
Show me a system that can guarantee correct answers and I’m 100% on board.