this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2025
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I try to tell them that the machine is just calculating what the next word is to follow the previous word. It doesnt understand the context of what it's saying, only that these words fit together right.
At risk of sounding ignorant...
There has to be more to it than that, right? I mean these tools can write working code in whatever language I need, using the libraries I specify, and it just spits out this code in seconds. The code is 90% of the way there.
LLMs can also read charts and correctly assess what's going on, can create stock trading strategies using recent data, can create recipes that work implying some level of understanding of how to cook, etc. It's kinda scary how much these things can do. Now that my job is training these models I see how far they've come in just coding, and they will 100% replace a LOT of developers.
No, there really isn't. You're just pigging backing off of the exploited labor of working class engineers and enjoying the luxury of living away from the blood soaked externalities that make your chatbot sing.
If AI actually did what you think it does then why would the capitalist class support it? A computer program that is the might of millions of workers? How would the control of the capitalist class continue to exist?
Or the more reasonable explanation that like smartphones and crypto, there exists a very lucrative profit incentive for the capitalist leach to create profit margins out of thin air. Westerners are trained to overconsume so this doesn't come as a suprise.
Because server farms are cheaper than hiring developers, artists, writers, etc.? Capitalists don't care about the environmental impacts as long as their bottom line isn't affected.
This technology is killing jobs. Thousands are being laid off at Microsoft this month on top of layoffs at lots of other tech companies. The field I went to college to learn is cooked. There's already thousands of over qualified people applying to the few jobs that are left. This is a way bigger deal than Crypto and another way for the owning class to hoard more wealth for themselves at the expense of us working class folks.