[–] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I don't think that question is framed correctly.. We don't give guns agency the way we do for LLMs. The manner in which these attacks are discussed is "look at this crazy thing AI did, it's so smart and dangerous!" so the way the discussion is framed around the tool is completely different from the way guns are discussed. Discussion around banning certain classes of weapons is usually centred on how easy it makes it for a single person to commit murder at scale. The discussion about LLMs is not about how easy it makes it for attackers to find and exploit systems at scale. Instead we've got this gaslighting campaign insisting the tool is acting under its own initiative. So I don't think, right now, you can draw a straight line between arguments about AI safety and arguments about gun safety because they're arguing different things.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    i've got c++ and graphics experience but i don't think i've ever used inkscape. i'll dig through the list and see if there's a way for me to be useful here.

    also is there a way to see what issues are actually blocking 1.5? this is a list of 2000 things.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I am not just saying shit. I am telling you, as a person working for such a company, that this is real and this is happening. This is not executives talking shit. Although yes executives do talk a lot of shit and have unrealistic expectations. Coding was never really the slowest part of software development anyway.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    This may have been an accurate assessment 18 months ago, but it is not anymore. If you're not getting good results out of the latest models it's more of a you problem than a model problem at this point. And not to be completely rude here but at the level of people getting paid 7 figures USD to develop software LLMs are being widely used for basically all code. We need to move past this cope about their capabilities.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    It’s a dead-end technology that cannot be relied upon for anything serious

    I'm sorry you are completely wrong. Do LLMs produce slop? Yes. Are LLMs useful? Also yes. The software industry, at least at the high end, is transforming rapidly because of this technology. The question of whether or not LLMs and other generative AI techniques along those lines are generally applicable is still an open one. But at least in some industries such as software it is certainly not a dead-end technology that cannot be relied upon for anything serious.

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