The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
Agreed. It’s nice to see others who see the potential for AI without being some easy solution to all problems
The truth is, it’s incredibly useful, but more like a super intern than a coworker. It knows many things you don’t, it can do things faster than you, sometimes even better, but it’s an intern - it can do menial tasks and sometimes surprise you with unexpected insight, but it doesn’t understand the full picture and will make mistakes, and that’s on you
Luckily, there’s a lot of menial tasks it can help with, and a lot of ways to make small (7-13b) models outperform big ones with conventional programming. Anything that can be done in conventional code should be, and even if it won’t make billions there’s many places it can work like mighty putty to make things that make our lives better
I think it would be really cool to spin up a open source project using conventional programming and one of these light duty models as a teaching device. Do some specific tuning around different subjects, also set up guardrails keeping them boxed into the subject at hand or related topics that have been tested.
It’s very achievable - if you wrote out simple functions to complete larger objectives, you could feed in test results and the code, and you could easily provide enough context to keep it on task