richmondez

People like that aren’t asking for advice, they have already decided and want validation/permission for the choice they already made.

Who in their right mind is exposing them directly to the internet? Poorly configured routers to blame here I assume?

Their areas of expertise and research are not areas that offer insight into mechanisms of cognition, they are not a neurobiologist or a computer scientist involved in machine learning. Their high standing in related areas is being used to give credence to an argument that is no better than a gut feeling.

You also have no ideas what conflicts of interest exist here, there may be none or the professor could be heavily invested in LLM companies.

LLMs dont think and the “trains of thought” is just strapping a bunch of LLMs together to try and tidy up and correct if one of the models in the chain outputs nonsense which they are wont to do. They are useful tools, they don’t spontaneously generate output or request input. It’s a very complicated auto complete that is capable of generating plausible valid output (when considered by humans) to a given natural language input.

Click bait nonsense based on what a psychiatrist feels. It’s not even possible to make this determination because LLMs don’t think and have no agency and we don’t fully understand how humans think to compare against if they did.

Aren’t most torrents “unofficial”?

Can’t most serious compilers produce reproducible builds these days given the same build environment. I know there has been a drive towards reproducible builds in general for security verification purposes.

You should have stopped at “don’t share on social media”.

There are normally plenty of examples when an effective monopoly is broken of prices coming down to stay competitive, patents expiring on drugs normally sees prices tumble. A single example where a company becoming an effective monopoly lowered prices might be a better comparison because I’m fairly sure that hasn’t happened.

What I’m saying is the way it’s marketed to be used is much closer to the wrong way and it’s far less of a productivity enhancer when used how it really should be and relies on having a lot more professional level IT skills.

Local stuff absolutely can do damage to your local data, unless your backups are pull rather than push or are immutable on a file system they are potentially vulnerable. Unless the operating system specifically prevents the agent process from doing something telling it not to is like asking it to pinky promise not to, nothing stops it if the LLM output it relies on says to do so. It’s not deterministic like a regular program because it relies on the output from a chaotic black box text generator. All you can say is that it probably won’t do those things if it says it won’t.

All purchased download music is pretty much drm free, wish other forms of media were without having to sail the high seas.

So basically use it as a toy for entertainment purposes only… Except it’s not marketed to be used that way and far to many people aren’t smart or educated in computing enough to use it that way. Accepting a bash command you don’t understand is the same as running a bash command you found on the Internet… You shouldnt, but people are far more trusting of the stuff an LLM powered agent comes up with.

This is exactly right but also removes all the “productivity benefits” of having an LLM driven agent do all the things for you that marketing says you should use it for. You are supposed to push the “do whatever the fuck you like to get the job done” button so it can burn tokens without any oversight.

Disagree, the agentic LLM use does not have any real agency of its own, the user giving it access and a request and not preventing the possible illegal ways it could fulfill that request and entirely on the user for being ignorant and irresponsible trying to shift work onto a system with chaotic behavior.

I’m assuming “almost” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the “almost entirely autonomously” part.

You have selected “regicide”. If you know the name of the king or queen being murdered, press 1…

I get doing things because you can, that doesn’t mean it’s not wholly unsuited to the task and massive over kill that you only use because either 1. It’s self hosted so you are already paying for it or 2. It’s super cheap. You likely wouldn’t entertain such a set up if you were paying the true price for training and running the models.

I would say no, because even physical devices you purchase have to come with subscription plans or in some way talk back to the manufacturers servers that isn’t in your interest.

Maybe but even there there are limits on how much they will be willing to spend for junior level programming no matter how much of a ship fast fix broken methodology they adopt.

The public assumption that AI can’t tell fact from fiction and confidently makes stuff up doesn’t seem at odds with them being able to spin a good yarn.