OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face is a nice test to see which media outlets simply regurgitate OpenAI's PR articles (or copy the exaggerated interpretations!), and which ones actually think for themselves and do some digging.
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mastodon 4.7.3I design at ForTomorrow. I’m an immigrant in Berlin, geriatric millennial, edge case, papa.
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Things that intelligent, computer using people have often asked me:
- Where is the meeting? (in the calendar's location field)
- Where's the document called so and so? (gDrive's search isn't that bad)
- Where are the meeting notes? (in the same place as all other meetings)
- Can you update the spreadsheet with these numbers?
- Can you remind me to do that thing tomorrow?
I think software people underestimate how much people dislike computers and don't care at all for automation.
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@jasongorman@mastodon.cloud it has clear perceived value in areas one can’t assess the value of because one lacks the expertise.
TBH I think programmers can benefit from LLMs for a small subset of simple tasks. That doesn’t justify the costs and isn’t living up to the hype so whatever
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@leaverou@front-end.social already since they're five years old, one of ours occasionally sighs things like "Somehow things used to be simpler when I was younger. More fun."
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I should probably thank @csstricks@mastodon.social but it must have been years ago that I read about that property so I'm just saying thank you to everyone sharing their knowledge here :D
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@matthiasott@mastodon.social nice one! Although I studied industrial design engineering, after switching to web stuff it took me long to realize that I still am a design engineer. Many orgs incentivize or even force making a clear choice between design and engineering. They just want replaceable robots. It’s time to make design engineering a thing in web design!
Apparently Google heard your complaints about open tabs causing MacBook Pro fans to spin:
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@hakona @jasongorman if they're actually training a model to do that, it sounds pretty cool but also risky and complicated. If they're just asking an LLM to do it, I guess it depends on how well the thing is documented? Then again, if the whole thing should work, someone's gotta read documentation, understand how it works, write and run tests, which is prob most of the project. I dunno how they're gonna know they're done when the LLM says it's ready otherwise. But hey, I'm not a backend dev 😃
I only found conflicting reports and outdated numbers on the #CO2 emissions of LLMs. So I've made some estimations myself.
I was hoping with newer numbers I could feel slightly less bad about my occasional #LLM use. But it's terrifyingly bad. Now I hope I've made a mistake, but the calculation is so simple, I don't see how I can very wrong.
The notion that AI is going to destroy humanity is #AI PR, but if it's going to be the case, it's because of the emissions.