So, if I understand this correctly, a few individuals in the USA are buying up all the RAM and GPUs being manufactured in the world, with huge loans that they are hoping they will be able to pay off someday, to put into some of the biggest data centers ever constructed, all over cheap, peaceful villages, for which the electric grid has to be substantially upgraded, massively increasing our carbon emissions, and a large portion of the available fresh water supply has to be redirected, so that we can consume:

  • Generative AI: A Large Language Model (LLM) that has gobbled up most of humanity’s literature and content on the Internet, so that it can predict the next word in a sentence.
  • Agentic AI: A list of traditional IF THEN statements that do things based on the output of the magical LLM and then create a new prompt that they feed back into the LLM in a never ending loop, with the aim of consuming as many tokens as possible.
  • Ontology: A long list of relationships between real-world objects and concepts to constantly remind the LLM not to make up impossible stuff.

Correct?

I suspect that they have run out of ideas how to make us buy new smartphones.

  • EnsignWashout@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 days ago
    • Agentic AI: A list of traditional IF THEN statements that do things based on the output of the magical LLM and then create a new prompt that they feed back into the LLM in a never ending loop, with the aim of consuming as many tokens as possible.

    It’s so much worse than that. We use the pleasant answer predictor to predict what function calls and arguments passed to those functions might be the most pleasing.

    It can provide all of the capabilities of piping curl into sudo with none of the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing I’ve turned over control of my computer’s fate to a stranger on the Internet.

    Instead, I’ve turned my computer’s fate over to a statistical approximation of the slurry from mixing together the outputs of every stranger from the Internet.