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  • This is interesting and thought provoking discussion, ty.

    You're absolutely right, I was looking for the dead end - plugging LLM into a solution.

    I'm more thinking LLMs used in conjunction with other tech will have these effects on our communicating. LLMs, or whatever replaces them to do that interpretation, are necessary to facilitate that.

    When we come up with something better, to do the same job better, then of course, LLMs will be redundant. If that happens, great.

    We are already seeing a boom in popularity of LLMs outside of professional use. Global ubiquity for anything is never going to happen, unless we can fix communication, which we probably can't. We certainly can't alone. It's very much a chicken an egg problem, that we can only gain from by progressing towards.

    Imagining vocallising using programming languages gave me a chuckle. I have been known to do things like use s/x/y/ to correct in written chats though.

    Programming languages allow us to talk to and listen to machines. LLMs will hopefully allow machines to listen and talk to/between us.

  • But to go back to Ops original question, how will LLMs affect spoken language, they won't.

    That's a rather closed minded conclusion. It makes it sound like you don't think they have the chance.

    LLMs have the potential to pave the way to aligning spoken language, perhaps even evolving human communication to a point where speech is an occasional thing because it's really inefficient.

  • So I feel like we agree here. LLMs are a step to solving a low level human problem, i just don't see that as a dead end.. If we don't take the steps, we're still in the oceans. We're also learning a lot in the process ourselves, and that experience will carry on.

    I appreciate your analogy, I am well aware LLMs are just clever recursive conditional queries with big semi self-updating datasets.

    Regardless of whether or not something replaces LLMs in the future, the data and processing that's gone into that data, will likely be used along with the lessons were learning now. I think they're a solid investment from any angle.

  • Do you actually believe this?

    LLMs are the opposite of a dead end. More like the opening of a pipe. It's not that they will burn out, it's just that they'll reach a point that they're just one function of a more complete AI perhaps.

    At the very least they tackle a very difficult problem, of communication between human and machine. Their purpose is that. We have to tell machines what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. With such precision that there is no room for error. LLMs are not tools to prove truth, or anything.

    If you ask an LLM a question, and it gives you a response that indicates it has understood your question correctly, and you are able to understand its response that far, then the LLM has done it's job, regardless of if the answer is correct.

    Validating the facts of the response is another function again, which would employ LLMs as a translation tool.

    It's not a long leap from there to a language translation tool between humans, where an AI is an interpreter. deepl on roids.

  • How did that work out? We used sles in the past (moved to rhel6). Management of larger environments has been easier with rhel, but we've slowly been decoupling from redhat-isms. Satellite is just doing drm -the only thing that gives us grief- and repos now.

  • If I was a hiring manager and saw a video like this from a prospective employee I would just throw their application straight in the garbage.

    You probably wouldn't be a hiring manager very long with that attitude. I don't get the appeal either, but I don't do tiktok so. Just from the linked piece, it sounds like it's becoming increasingly common.

    Quite a leap to posting private company details online. Where are those stored by the way? Office 365? SharePoint? The cloud?..

  • I think Windows has been shit since it was an app that sat on top of dos. It's gotten a lot better now in countless ways, but overall, it's gotten worse than better. There was a time where I couldn't/wouldn't consider an alternative as a daily driver from 95 through to the end of 7 support really.

    The enshitification of windows got worse with 10 (11 is another order of magnitude) and the oncoming eos, drove me off again about 18 months ago and I've been happier for it.

  • One of the best things the govt here in aus did in my lifetime, was tighten gun laws and buy back as many guns as they could. While we're by no means free of gun violence and homicides, we very rarely have incidents like mass/school shootings.

  • Think that's dystopian? At a local here in aus, if the self service checkouts think someone is about to walk out without paying, they lock off the entire self service area, and all the trolleys in the store freeze and refuse to move - Even if you've been through the manned register, and already paid for your groceries.. You have to wait for them to unlock all the shit. Idk how people shop there.