I’ve had tinnitus as long as I can remember, and it doesn’t bother me at all. I’ve gotten used to it. I mean, I never don’t hear it, so there’s no alternative.

Very-stick spray cooking

No, it will be the same field of technology. LLMs are just a facet of AI, currently. I’m done having this discussion with you, as you do not have the capability to grasp rational thought or have a rational discussion.

And, no. You started the insults. I responded with a couple.

That’s some pretty absurd logic. It is clear there is no point in continuing this discussion, as you are too easily trapped by logical fallacies and are too quick to jump to insults. Hopefully you can take some time to try to grow as a person.

The field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence does not depend on the success of Large Language Models, and LLMs quite possibly have reached their limits. I do not see that as relevant.

I am far from dumb. I got 60/60 problems correct on a proctored Raven’s Progressive Matrices as a teenager. That places my pattern recognition much higher than most of the world’s population. I taught myself C++ when I was six years old in 1997.

You’ve created a strawman by recasting my argument to a point that I am not making. I did not say “trust vendor promises” or “ignore current failures.” I said present-state-only evaluation is a bad way to judge emerging technology.

Engineering forecasting is not limited to closed-form physics. It also uses empirical progress, deployment data, cost curves, failure modes, and observed capability gains. Your pig analogy only works if AI had no demonstrated utility and no measurable improvement. That is plainly false.

Criticize cost, energy use, incentives, etc. Those are real arguments. But “some promises are hype, therefore the whole field is slop and cannot improve” is not analysis. It is just cynicism with insults attached.

I understand the sentiment, but again, sometimes all you want to do is end the suffering. And, suicide does that for you. I don’t advocate for it. I just understand it, having come to that decision in the past.

Yes, I’m going to sleep. It was a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for being kind and curious.

To clarify, I am not suicidal. I was speaking of the past.

Yes, but luckily I love what I do. So, I get paid and I get the benefit of doing what I want to do in life.

And, with my money, I sponsor several impoverished children and give back as much as I can as often as I can.

I also spend a lot of time volunteering at places that help those who struggle with addiction.

Good. Suicide, of course, is permanent. Pain, I’ve found, is always temporary.

I make $155,000 USD per year. When I was homeless, obviously I had essentially no money most of the time.

When you get tired of constant and terrible pain, sometimes it seems the only way out.

Yes, but it took decades and lots of very hard work. I nearly gave up several times. In fact, I attempted suicide more than once, so I guess I did give up multiple times. But, I survived and I’m glad. Overall, I survived a lot of abuse and violence. It’s been a very difficult life, but it’s finally peaceful and I have a lot of happiness today.

Now I’m a software engineer making six figures. I went from nothing to what I consider very successful, albeit with tons and tons of really intense trauma.

I’m not sure what you’re asking. I was saying @mrmaplebar@fedia.io ’s comment is the most valuable reply I’ve read here, and that I have first hand experience living on the streets with no place to stay, and no money to speak of most of the time for years.

As someone who was homeless, living on the streets for years, this is the comment I think is the most valuable. You need to find out where to get shelter and food, and you need to know people’s contact info - it all needs to be written down and kept safe.

This is temporary. Everything is temporary. Don’t give up.

With our current mathematical models of physics, if you travel faster than light, you go backwards in time. Though, most scientific communities reject the possibility of FTL travel. However, there’s still the idea of tachyons, I guess.

A pretty good source on the topic: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsPUh22kYmNC0xsEp6YXRq2ALms7fTwrx

You truly don’t, though. You believe it. That doesn’t make it true. We do not have enough data to know what the future holds regarding AI.

A personal anecdote is all that’s needed to refute a blanket statement like the implication that self-driving does not exist yet.

Again, it seems you are just a really upset and negative person. I feel bad for you. It would be very easy to have a pleasant discussion or debate on the topic.

If we only ever evaluated technology on its present state of being, we wouldn’t have planes for instance. That’s not a really sound methodology. “It doesn’t work now. Therefore, it should be abandoned.” Like, what?

Though, perhaps what you mean is “we shouldn’t be investing billions in unproven technology.” That, I agree with. I think most would.

I’ve been in vehicles with self-driving, and they perform better than the average driver in every situation I’ve encountered.

You seem like a really angry person. I’m sorry your experiences in life are so miserable.