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What exactly do YOU think LLMs are?

Machine Learning is a kind of AI. LLMs are but one kind of Machine Learning Model. All LLMs are Machine Learning models, but not all Machine Learning models are LLMs. LLMs are one kind of AI, but not all AI is an LLM.

They’re different words for a reason. If they were all the same thing, we wouldn’t give them different names. It’s completely possible and understandable that someone would find one acceptable but not the other.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

There’s nothing quite so uniquely irritating as someone who holds a strong opinion on something about which they know very little.

If you punch a clock to pay your bills, you’re working class. Don’t let them turn us against each other.

And it doesn’t fill up landfills with those harmful lithium-ion batteries!

IBS is a serious issue affecting millions of people. Whoever wrote this sign is ableist.

“Back in my day” we would swap out someone’s mouse ball with a hard-boiled egg yolk as a prank. Good times.

Small numbers begin appearing out of thin air. A red bar drains slowly.

Which one?

He’s got you on that one

FDR was a Democratic Socialist. Trump says socialism is great!

Don’t forget glazing the GTA 6 trailer

Physical media also comes with a license.

licenses are a very IT central idea.

No, that’s just the implementation you’re most familiar with. Licenses are a copyright idea that IT adopted and made digital. Every physical movie and game you own also comes with a license that authorizes your retail use of it, but forbids your commercial use of it. You can’t rent your copy of Shrek out to people, nor can you charge admission to people to watch Shrek at your house, nor are you allowed to make copies of your Shrek DVD and sell them, for example.

Ben Franklin was very progressive for his time. He owned a few slaves early in his life, but soon freed them and spent the rest of his life as one of that time period’s most outspoken critics of slavery. He even bought a printing press so he could spread anti-slavery rhetoric more effectively.

You have internet, there’s no excuse for being wrong unless you just like spreading misinformation.

All of that sounds unintuituve and complicated, which I think is the main complaint overall.

You used to have master and slave processes too until it was changed to parent and child

Yeah, I’ve heard. I’ve always associated the terms with dom/sub play, not slavery.

I get the reasoning as to why, but it seems odd to me that the IT terms were fixated on, but not the engineering terms; “master” and “slave” are still the accepted terms in the context of hydraulic systems, for example.

It’s also generally accepted that “retard” and “retarded” are generally acceptable terms when used in an engineering context. If we can accept that some terms are accepted in the a technical context, it seems inconsistent not to apply the same thinking to IT terminology.

Just more stuff to keep us bickering with each other so we don’t look up and realize where all the real problems are coming from, imo.

“Ey gurl, don’t act like you ain’t see my pull request. Lemme deep scan dem packets.”

Don’t forget all the master/slave terminology