Careful, my other comment got removed because of a witty but still insightful dig.

They are very sensitive here about how the AI isn’t really AI.

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“Technically”? Wrong word. By all technical measures, they are technically 100% AI.

What you might be trying to say is they aren’t AGI (artificial general intelligence). I would argue they might just be AGI. For instance, they can reason about what they are better than you can, while also being able to draw a pelican riding a unicycle.

What they certainly aren’t is ASI (artificial super-intelligence). You can say they technically aren’t ASI and you would be correct. ASI would be capable of improving itself faster than a human would be capable.

Right.

AI has been worked on for generations. We’ve been benefiting from the fruits of that labor for a long time, mainly starting with search and translations.

Now we have the ability to have a conversation with machines and it is somehow not intelligence?

I am really confused.

Intelligence does not mean consciousness or alive. It is means intelligence, which can be summarized as advanced pattern matching & predictive behavior.

A beetle is intelligent and alive. Is an LLM more intelligent than a beetle? What about an image classifying model, like CLIP? It can perceive and describe objects in an image in natural language, what insect can do that?

This is a form of intelligence. It was artificially created. It is artificial intelligence.

We can criticize the corporate and investor approaches, mourn the loss of purpose for many workers and artists, without being delusional about what this technology is.

…what?

LLMs are AI. What is this?

I am asking seriously. Can someone explain the context of this nonsense?

Are we really entering a luddite phase again?

The creator didn’t have a good answer, so there may not be a good one for this project. But the value proposition is actually there.

These self-hosted solutions are riddled with configuration options, often obscure requirements, and countless maintenance pitfalls.

For a disciplined tech person, it is no problem to install and maintain.

For people less disciplined or non-tech, self hosting is ill-advised and can be dangerous.

But even for a tech person, when you have enough docker-compose services laying around, it can start to get a bit overwhelming to keep it all up to date, online, and functional. If you change your router etc you have to recall how things were set up, what port-forwards you need, what reverse lookups, etc etc.

There actually is a gap in usability and configuration management. I could see a product that has sensible defaults that unifies config across these self-hosted services without needing to access the command line.

This paper is shit.

https://jhap.du.ac.ir/article_488_8e072972f66d1fb748b47244c4813c86.pdf

They proved absolutely nothing.

For instance, they treat physics as a formal axiomatic system, which is fine for a human model of the physical world, but not for the physical world itself.

You can’t say something is “unprovable” and make a logical leap to saying it is “physically undecidable.” Gödel-incompleteness produces unprovable sentences inside a formal system, it doesn’t imply that physical observables correspond to those sentences.

I could go on but the paper is 12 short pages of non-sequiturs and logical leaps, with references to invoke formality, it’s a joke that an article like this is being passed around and taken as reality.