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vagabond_ t1_j8irc8n wrote

Because AI still has a hard time turning natural language descriptions of quantities into numbers. For instance, it has a very hard time with the difference between 'two' and 'two more'.

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Littlegator t1_j8iq113 wrote

Ironically probably farthest from the truth. Generalists have to know the most. Specialists are far more likely to get bored with their career because they "learn it all" pretty quickly, and practice-changing updates happen like once a year if even.

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Littlegator t1_j8iprqo wrote

The bottom of the class often doesn't pass STEP 1 first go-around. Like 5% to 10% of students fail their first attempt.

However, the STEPs are almost entirely a complex word-association game. Basically a LLM's wet dream. If it was trained on content-specific data, it could probably get 100%.

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Bojackhoman t1_j8iow93 wrote

Such a bad idea. ICOs might be the best way forward, running on fossil or not. There's many reasons petrol and diesel have been used for such a long time in transportation. A hybrid might very well use the best of both worlds, electricity for short trips and liquid fuel for range.

If we can't get the electricity grid fossil free, which will be extremely challenging in ~10 years, they will still be running on fossil.

*Edit: I can see my point is not agreed with. But I am strongly against banning ANY technology, this was my main point. There are very, very few expeptions in my mind.

As an example one can argue that nuclear weapons are a positive force, besides clean? energy, in the sense that there has been no world war since their development. They may be banned but they are not easily removed. Thus we have MAD (mutually assured destruction). Let technology run it's course and keep the politicians away from meddling with things they don't understand.

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GondolaSnaps t1_j8in58c wrote

It was trained on massive amounts of internet data, but it isn’t online.

If you ask it, it’ll even tell you that all of it’s information is from 2021 and that it has no knowledge of anything after that.

For example, if you ask it about Queen Elizabeth it’ll describe her as the current monarch as it has no idea she’s already dead.

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SidewaysFancyPrance t1_j8imlbj wrote

They are targeting people who are driving and want to quickly get some food without leaving their car. Promoting app ordering for a drive-thru doesn't sit right - and can be dangerous if people feel they need to place their order while driving. I understand why they want this tech, because there will always be customer demand for voice ordering in drive-thrus. It's just sad that society is pushing so hard towards eliminating human interfaces and jobs, just so a few people can get a little richer.

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endless_sea_of_stars t1_j8ik6a6 wrote

Meta released a paper about Toolformers (yeah, probably need to workshop that name) that allow LLMs to call out to APIs like a calculator. So instead of learning how to calculate a sqrt it would simply call a calculator.

This is a pretty big deal but hasn't got a lot of attention yet.

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ALurkerForcedToLogin t1_j8iitwl wrote

Anyone can use Google, but I pay my doctor for their decade of med school and years of experience. They have the experience to know that it is actually not cancer, no matter what Web MD is telling me.

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plartoo t1_j8iitkc wrote

Makes sense because most of medical knowledge requires memorization (of a bunch of—mostly useless/never-used-again-after-the-exam—stuff) and AI should have no problem absorbing and forming a decent “memory” of them. Better, AI should be able to adapt easily and quickly to the latest evidence as opposed to human doctors some of whom never update their knowledge after med school/residency.

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BirdLawyerPerson t1_j8ii7wd wrote

They're bad at word problems, which requires recognizing that they're being presented with a math problem at all, before determining the right formula to apply and calculating what the answer should be.

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level_17_paladin t1_j8ihd3a wrote

Some are even morons.

Ben Carson stands by statement that Egyptian pyramids built to store grain

>Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Thursday stood by his belief that Egypt’s great pyramids were built by the biblical figure Joseph to store grain — not as tombs for pharaohs.

Carson became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in 1984 at age 33, then the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in the United States

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semitope t1_j8idqk3 wrote

>without needing to acquire additional material from the internet or elsewhere

It doesn't constantly search the internet to come up with it's answers? It needs data. All software needs data. Not sure how it works but its either it has access to the internet to look through it and uses indexing like google, or their servers have stored massive amounts of data for it to be relevant in different areas.

I doubt AI can do well in fact heavy fields like law and medicine with no way of knowing the facts.

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