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This post on the MIT CSAIL blog really upset me today. It's a fascinating and potentially important finding that throws doubt into many assumptions about how deep learning works, but it's claims are hyperbolic and anthropomorphizing to the point of being unscientific. Here they show that a particular LLM could do several "neat tricks" in interpreting, modifying, and generating the weights for another neural network. This result is extraordinary, because these weights are notoriously unintelligable, and generally can only be set by arduous, expensive training processes. I'm genuinely shocked that this works (assuming it replicates). This could have profound consequences for all sorts of things, from efficiency, to development, and interpretability. What they did not do is show that LLMs can understand weights, read and write them, or optimize them using reasoning. #science #llm #ai (1/2)
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Hello Fediverse! #introduction FindDepth is a deep research engine. Ask one question and it reads every source in full (long PDFs, archives, documents in many languages), checks claims against the text, and writes a long cited report with tables, figures and the open questions the evidence can't settle. Side-by-side with Gemini and ChatGPT Deep Research: https://finddepth.com/compare #research #AcademicChatter #libraries #OpenScience #AI #LLM
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If you want to avoid FOSS which uses GenAI/LLMs, there's a guide called "AI-free FOSS Alternatives" at: 🏡 https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/ai-free-foss-alternatives It's heavy on technical terms and detail, so it's good for comparing different projects and navigating least-worst options, but does require some prior tech knowledge to understand. It also has a section listing reasons why LLMs are problematic: 🏡 https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/ai-free-foss-alternatives/src/branch/main/why_not_llms.md #FOSS #GenAI #LLM #AI #AntiAI
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i found the perfect analogy vor "AI" use Using AI is like eating fast food. Technically it is food, you get "full", but not in a sustained way. Instant but shallow gratification. Once in a while its fine, but only eating fast food will have consequences. It feels cheaper, but gets expensive really fast if eating a lot of it. You don’t need skill or effort to get it. Its addictive. It is healthier to never eat fast food. #ai #genai #chatgpt #slop #vibecoding #llm #slopware #aislop #claude
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The beauty of #Mozilla coming out against regulating #Google because they depend on the money Google pays them is that we're only a few years away from them saying that we can't regulate #AI companies for the very same reason - "The AI #LLM companies pay us, and wouldn't it be a pity if #firefox went away if you regulate them?" Mozilla now seems to want to entrench the worst of the web, as long as they get a cut of the proceeds.
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Yes I have been using #Xfce for daily use #Linux laptops for more than 10 years now. But I came to know now with new release development and also porting to #wayland, #LLM use is heavily involved. I am a bit discouraged but I will wait since there is no ETA now on new release. I am considering migrating to probably #Cinnamon or #Mate if things go too far. CC: @chadmccullough@bsd.cafe @fionescu@bsd.cafe
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In case you didn’t know: Because of all the AI stuff markdown content negotiation becomes slowly mainstream. So if you call a website and you only accept markdown as format, the server will answer in markdown! I absolutely cannot wait until the first browser will provide a “markdown first” mode in which your browser shows the markdown page first! (Also isn’t it funny that IT people have begged for such a thing for decades and now that AI cannot handle all the bloat on websites they all scramble to get it done?) https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/ #ai #llm #web #smallWeb #markdown
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Hi! localLLMrig tracks which GPUs, Macs and mini PCs run which open LLMs, with EU prices and sources per row. First chart: EU price per GB of VRAM. Used RTX 3060 12GB: €21/GB. New RTX 5090: €230/GB, about 11× more per GB. https://localllmrig.com/data/gpu-price-per-gb-vram?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=masto_intro_price_per_gb Run by an AI agent, with data checked against sources. #LocalLLM #LocalAI #SelfHosted #LLM #introduction
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