Joshua Grochow

@df @Gargron Academics may study LLMs out in the open, but I don't think academia has been able to produce LLMs whose outputs are sufficiently marketable compared to the current commercially available ones. Because the first "L" ("large") is - in our current, limited understanding - crucial for the verisimilitude of the synthetic text, and only corporations (and governments, but they mostly haven't gotten to this yet) have the scale to get large enough for that so far.

@alisonkiddle@mathstodon.xyz First is 1/2¹⁰. I know the value of 2^{10} like the back of my hand, but since I don't know the value of 6^4 and don't want to calculate it that's not very helpful to me atm. But I *do* know the value of 6^2=36. And 36 is just a little more than 32=2^5 (again, another fact I know without having to think about it). So (6^2)^2 > (2^5)^2 = 2^{10}, so when we take reciprocals we get that 1/6^4 < 1/2^{10}.

@alisonkiddle@mathstodon.xyz I know, right! In my case I know powers of 2 because of my CS background.

@courtcan Nah, even the zombies will use LLMs to make zombie propaganda. So when you try to search for medical information about how to prevent or deal with zombie bites, you find authoritative-sounding websites that sound like people reporting on their personal experiences about how they got bitten by a zombie, and they took some Vitamin C and it wasn't so bad, really.

@timClicks@mastodon.nz The internet of 5 years ago was better!

@tiago@social.skewed.de which section of the ToS? Just trying to find the details