On Thu, Jan 29, 2026, at 10:05 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > These things will make us intellectually lazy unless we are extremely > careful, latter-day Luddites are going to get their revenge as they will > still be able to think.
Matthew Stoller sometimes says that if you don't read books, you can't think -- for instance, here: https://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1251551897225396228 On Thu, Jan 29, 2026, at 10:05 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > On 1/29/26 12:28 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Anyone want to discuss? > > We are in a *very* interesting time. > > > These things can't "think", but what they can do anyway can still be > very impressive. > > These things are very dangerous; lonely, vulnerable, suggestible people > are being destroyed. > > These things are turning the economics of the web upside down; web sites > with good content are losing ad revenue, new crappy web pages made by > LLMs are flooding the web. > > These things got better by training on more and more data, but they have > run out of data, worse, coming models are going to be poisoned by > training on their own terrible output. > > These things will make us intellectually lazy unless we are extremely > careful, latter-day Luddites are going to get their revenge as they will > still be able to think. > > These things are very well suited to programming, particularly in Rust, > because the compiler is to strict about so much. > > These things don't scale, the "transformer" innovation that made them > possible does not scale. > > These things got me fired, in fact, I am pretty sure ChatGPT devised how > to decide who to dump when my employer did a massive layoff. > > There things are turning the labor market upside down, junior level > positions are are being eliminated, the pipeline for creating senior > positions is broken. > > > And, there will be a crash, the hype is not justified. There is no way > it could be. > > > -kb, the Kent who has learned a lot about these things, and is full of > opinions, more everyday. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
