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Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park

Erica "digifox" Kovac

@digifox.binaryden.net

18 Sept

It took me a while to get over the negative polarization from all the boosters and excessive hype early on, but I've gotten over it, mostly.

Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo)

@tilmonedwards.com

It's astonishing how badly they messaged and marketed this technology. Really want to smack the breathless hype guys and go come on man just give people like a MINUTE to process that we actually are over the threshold of a computing revolution and it's gonna get messy for a while.

18/9/26, 7:25 pm1 repost43 likes

workshopbubby.bsky.social

@workshopbubby.bsky.social

18 Sept

I dont think theres any better way you could message. The public will have a meltdown no matter what you do or say right now.

The Dark Prince of Donair

@erisianrite.com

18 Sept

Idk I think the most annoying breathless hype guys just do it to boost their followings, it doesn’t seem like the vast majority of them were part of an actual marketing push or whatever.

Bryce Youngquist

@bryceyoungquist.bsky.social

18 Sept

amodei, altman, and musk, on the other hand, well

The Dark Prince of Donair

@erisianrite.com

18 Sept

CEOs doing CEO things barely rates

Mitchell Anderson

@mandersonmn.bsky.social

19 Sept

Part of the hype is just how insane the capital expense and debt financing is to build these models. The revenue they'll need to make to recoup it implies the most profitable technology in the history of the world by an order of magnitude.

mapachurro

@mapachurro.bsky.social

20 Sept

You mean like... "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. And now you've patented it, and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and... You're selling it."

Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo)

@tilmonedwards.com

20 Sept

No, not exactly what I mean. It seems for some reason that they would like you to believe that it's a jurassic park situation and someday it's going to break containment and go rogue or whatever. That belief is the marketing malpractice I'm referring to.