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Promptfondler drama: Shumer’s ‘no-hallucination’ Reflection 70B AI turns out to be two other models in a trenchcoat (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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

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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 15 points 3 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!

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

^1.^ Better known for other work

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago

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