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another valiant attempt to get "promptfonder" into more common currency

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shumer credits Glaive AI — a company he invested in — for its LLM special cases, like telling which number is bigger or how many times the letter “r” appears in the word “strawberry.” Those are the two examples Shumer named to VentureBeat.

I quite often pondered how cool it'd have been to be a computer scientist like 50-70 years ago, you know, one of the pioneers, people on whose shoulders the entire tech sector rests now.

Think about all the advantages! Maybe I'd get to talk to Turing! Maybe I'd invent a foundational algorithm that would be in textbooks forever! Maybe I would've fucking died before this absolute blight on our domain happened!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I quite often pondered how cool it'd have been to be a computer scientist like 50-70 years ago

Most likely you'd be an et. al. in someone's footnote

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

^1.^ Better known for other work

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Now that is leaving your mark in history as an academic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Probably, but I would probably also never have heard the phrase "generative AI", so win?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Just one more model bro

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Promptfondler sounds like an Aphex Twin song title.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

other models in a trenchcoat

It keeps happening.

[–] Sanctus 9 points 2 months ago

Not a computer scientist? How the fuck do these guys get money in the first place to have startups? Its eternally frustrating dudes like this will continuously fail upwards for their entire lives.

[–] niktemadur 7 points 2 months ago

Two models in a trenchcoat trying to buy a ticket for an R-rated movie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's funny because they're trying to get rid of the only thing that's interesting about gen ai.

edit: Well, in this case, not sure if this counts as "trying".

[–] Linkerbaan 2 points 2 months ago

Isn't this just Mixtral

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

See, what he needs to do is really get inside the grift loop and pivot back to crypto ahead of everyone else. That way he can be at the front of the pack instead of yet another also-ran in the meta verse and AI grifts.