Did no one tell them that "evangelist" is not exactly a positive term? Do they call their sales people "crusaders", too?
V0ldek
joined 2 years ago
I'm sorry but "evangelist" to me conjures an image of a techbro on a street corner with a makeshift shelf of Google Cloud brochures advertising free documentation study hours.
There's Jehowa Witnesses doing the same schtick one block over and they're absolutely furious he took their favourite spot.
Also, speaking from experience trying to do any database work for large corporate clients, no data house is in order. It's basically saying "assume a spherical cow, then AI works".
Google Cloud Chief Evangelist
That cannot be an official title someone has, can it?
I just want to latch onto one more thing there:
GPTs are great at transforming information. Transformations include compression, decompression, and inter-language translation, among others.
Okay mister computer scientist, sure, what is "transforming information"? From what you're saying it appears like you're describing basically any map from information to other information. But AMONG OTHERS that includes a map going from NO INFO to CONFIDENT BULLSHIT. And I do agree LLMs are amazing at it.
Here, I'll sketch it out for you in fucking LaTeX:
$\emptyset \mapsto \mathit{Nonsense}$
How do they sysadmin a server that doesn't have any display devices aside from the terminal then? Which in my experience is almost all of them?
Amazing.
I could "publish" my homeworks from the 5yrs of college onto arxiv and that'd be a more scientifically valuable endeavour. Better formatted, too.
Dunno, the funniest thing about them to me is that they're still divided into 7-8 sections, each one-paragraph long. Just a guy who was never told he was wrong in his life and his idea of what research looks like.
There's one classified as "SSRN Electronic Journal 2023 | Journal article", I thought this was something like a predatory journal, hence the "almost", but now that I clicked on it I think this is just an arxiv-like website that calls itself an "electronic journal"? No fucking idea.
I am unfairly misrepresenting that for sneer purposes but if you want to see what happens when someone with typical cryptobro brainworms gets access to a paper-looking PDF template:
Those "papers" are gold, they're mostly a few pages long, and they span such a wild range of topics as:
- How to calculate a mean of numbers?
- What is a number?
- Atheism is actually a religion.
- Ethereum is a store of energy.
I've never seen someone in such a dire need of a wedgie, come on man, you spend the hours of your life writing your farts into LaTeX and generating DOIs for them, this isn't healthy.
If we grow AIs too big, say, bigger than the Moon, then well, the Moon could get jealous and mad at us.