was briefly baffled by this CAPTCHA until i realized it was asking me to identify the animal that was bigger in real life than the other animals in the picture, not the animal that, in real life, is bigger than roughly 1cm
we are rapidly approaching the point at which CAPTCHAs clever enough to keep the bots out are too confusing for the humans
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.
I now believe that there is even less intelligence and reasoning in these LLMs than I thought before. Many of the proposed use cases now look like borderline fraudulent pseudoscience to me.
There are many legitimate criticisms of LLMs. The copyright issues involved in their training, their enormous power consumption and the risks of people trusting them when they shouldn’t (considering both accuracy and bias) are three that I think about a lot. The one criticism I wont accept is that they aren’t useful.
Futurism report highlights the reputational cost of publishing AI-generated content.
super cool that all these companies have decided to make customers opt OUT of having their data sold for AI training purposes
"but no one would do it if it was opt-in!"
yeah, THAT IS THE PROBLEM