It feels like you donāt think the people making these decisions see employee salaries as anything but a line item to minimize or ācustomer serviceā as a cost liability. They donāt care about customer experience. Hell, they actively want people to get frustrated and give up because it saves the company money.
see employee salaries as anything but a line item to minimize
YES. With and without AI in the mix, anything to maximize benefits. Companies would have a full workforce formed by unpaid slaves if they could. Many companies get rid of their oldest and best paid employees to replace them with cheaper ones. Videogame studios fired employees right after a new game was finished just so they didnāt have to pay any benefits to the devs. We are nothing but a medium to make the top execs of a company richer.
As someone who works with LLMs, they shouldnātā¦
You still need your chatbot to stick to business rules and act like a real customer service rep, and thatās incredibly hard to accomplish with generative models where you cannot be there to evaluate the generated answers and where the chatbot can go on a tangent and suddenly start to give you free therapy when you originally went in to order pizza.
Donāt get me wrong, theyāre great for many applications within the manual loop. They can help customer service reps (as one example) function better, provide more help to users, and dedicate more time to those who still need a human to solve their issues.
Companies are already replacing some workforce with LLMs.
My opinion right now is that companies want you to believe they are 100% capable of replacing humans, but thatās because people in upper management never listen to the damn developers down in the basement (aka me), so they have an unrealistic expectation of AI coupled with an unending desire for money and success.
They are replacing them because they are greedy cunts, not because they are replaceable.
LLMs are excellent at producing high-volume, low-quality material. And itās a sad fact of life that a lot of companies are perfectly willing to use low quality material in their work.
Economics: The study of how people allocate scarce resources for production, distribution, and consumption, both individually and collectively.
Maybe you meant to say Capitalism? Capitalism has brought about the greatest wealth and prosperity in the history of mankind. Yes itās worked for us.
You still need your chatbot to stick to business rules and act like a real customer service rep, and thatās incredibly hard to accomplish with generative models
Isnāt that what, for instance, OpenAIās embeddings are for?
My opinion right now is that companies want you to believe they are 100% capable of replacing humans
Probably, but at the moment they can only do it partially.
They are replacing them because they are greedy cunts, not because they are replaceable.
I partially agree. I mean, they are greedy cunts but some tasks like translating from/to certain languages can be easily done even with the free ChatGPT demo with better results than Google Translate, so human translators are unfortunately becoming quite replaceable.
The word embeddings and embedding layers are there to represent data in ways that allow the model to make use of them to generate text. Itās not the same as the model acting as a human. It may sound like a human in text or even speech, but its reasoning skills are questionable at best. You can try to make it stick to your company policy but it will never (at this level) be able to operate under logic unless you hardcode that logic into it. This is not really possible with these models in that sense of the word, after all they just predict the best next word to say. Youād have to wrap them around with a shit ton of code and safety nets.
GPT models require massive amounts of data, so they were only that good at languages for which we have massive texts or Wikipedias. If your language doesnāt have good content on the internet or freely available digitalized content on which to train, a machine can still not replace translators (yet, no idea how long this will take until transfer learning is so good we can use it to translate low-resource languages to match the quality of English - French, for example).
A surprising amount of people get their knickers in a twist over it, which is pretty funny tbh. I like to put it in a lot of my memes just to piss people off haha
It implies a lack of justification, like there is no good reason girls hands are like that. Not sure why everyone is confused. Itās a meme format that has been around forever.
Yes Iām aware of the meme. Still donāt get how ānothing was said by nobodyā implies that, since itās an incoherent concept - such a double negative surely implies someone said something?
That is the only version that actually makes sense. It literally comes out as āno one said anythingā. Isnāt that whatās supposed to be implied: there was silence, interrupted by something no one asked for?
Yeah, but I live in the Chicago area, and with all the trouble some folks have had here with their electric squarves in this bitter cold, theyāre thinking about switching back to gas squarfs.
No, it shows me which files arenāt complete. Itās a tiny bit of the final episode and a .sfv file that was supposed to check for file integrity. So itās not a complete loss, but itās still disappointing.
Thatās odd, because the first and last episodes are usually the most downloaded; People will grab those to add to their seedboxes, because the ādownload first and lastā option is an easy way to sample the torrent before fully committing. So typically speaking, itās easiest/fastest to download the first and last episodes, since those are what is most available.
Large popular trackers use seed boxes to provide torrents, your seeding is irrelevant. It is actually quite hard to get any ratio there as most people will get most data from the seed boxes.
But whatās even better is to use a popular seed box yourself. There are high chances that a popular torrent will simply be linked to your seed box account instantly, so you donāt have to download anything at all. I mean you still need to transfer it to your PC, but you donāt have to torrent anything.
Yeah I donāt bother seeding things that are widely available. My connection isnāt good enough. I seed things that I have personal interest in with very few other seeders. Obscure media, software, and ebooks mostly.
You joke, but meteorite impacts causing large igneous provinces on the opposite side of the planet might actually be a thing.
(Uluru and Meteor Crater are provably not an example of this, though, for several reasons: they arenāt antipodes of each other, Uluru is five orders of magnitude older, and the phenomenon I mentioned wouldāve been caused by way, way bigger impacts.)
Itās astounding that one can learn really cool and interesting stuff by posting random nonsense to the shitpost community, lol. Thanks for the link! That was indeed new to me ;)
There is correlation evidence on Mars too! I donāt think itās been considered casual at this point, but Atlas Pro has a really cool YouTube video showing a lot of potential examples. The Hawaiian Islands were particularly convincing to me. Iāll try and find the video.
Do they have to be antipodal? If we imagine a clock face overlaid over an image of the earth, if a meteorite strikes vertically (i.e. parallel to the 12-6 line) at 11, could it result in a bulge at 7?
Uhā¦ no? Well, maybe for the guy in the picture because theyāre clearly dumb, but ācomputer engineerā sounds more like chip design and circuit layout than even software engineering, let alone basic IT workā¦
Basic IT work is wholly and completely different than any kind of computer-related engineering.
Youāre arguing that words donāt mean what many people use them to mean. Most service desk techs that I know have ācomputer engineerā in their LinkedIn.
And thatās coming from me, a person with a B.E. in computer engineering. I hate that it is what it is, but it is.
Thatās because theyāre lying idiots, not computer engineers. I can call myself a beutiful woman, but that doesnāt make it true, nor would me calling myself a beutiful woman EVER change what ābeutiful womanā means to others.
Thatās my point. What it means to others is key. There are more ācomputer engineersā than actual computer engineers. The way language works, and by volume, the phrase is now accepted as overloaded. You canāt cling to the first definition in the dictionary and say the second definition is a lie.
No, thatās not the way language works. No, thatās not how education or degrees or engineering works, either.
You would have to fundamentally change the meaning of several well established words before ācomputer engineerā will EVER actually refer to tech support.
As a computer engineer who works with FPGAs, thank you. I canāt tell you how many times someone comes to me with a CS question and Iām like, I dunno! Ask a CS person! I hardly know Python. [Admittedly, I really should learn.]
FPGAs are where itās at, and the job market is surprisingly pretty open right now. Everybodyās sleeping on them, everyone wants study CUDA cores or architecture orā¦ ML hardware accelerators or whatever. If you can transition to RTL design or even silicon engineering, itās a good industry to be in.
Now, me personally, Iāve never made the funny magic smoke come out from one of my FPGAs, but I canāt tell you how many times Iāve fucked up an entire pipeline because I thought a series of logic would take 3 cycles but really it took 2 and now my entire data path is wrong and somehow I missed it in simulation and now Iāve gotta rearchitect everything and running synthesis/P&R takes a goddamn century to run and this is like my 5th time programming my board andā¦
Itās been so long since Iāve touched RTL and the last time I used VHDL/Verilog was college.
I probably could get back into it, but Iād only be qualified as an entry level, and Iām 10 years into software industry making a comfortable salary, I donāt know that I could take the pay cut due to other life shit.
It doesnāt really matter what Iām doing, just being able to play pokemon all day with my son while Iām on PTO today makes it all worth it.
Yeah circuit design was EE where I went to school. As a CS undergrad we had to take something called Computer Architecture where we learned about that stuff. But it was just one class, so pretty general coverage. Some CS grad stuff touches on it too (like networking.)
Fun fact: Kraft used to label the product as āPasteurized Processed Cheese Foodā until the FDA slapped them with a warning cause they didnāt meat the quality requirements for that label.
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