Enough with the LLM hysteria
Béatrice Moissinac, PhD Hello, world! 👋 Welcome to BeaBytes. My goal is to help you understand AI and equip you with enough conceptual (but not technical) fluency to fight off the snake oil merchants. I reserve the right to change my mind at any time. contact -at- beabytes -dot- com
Nearly two years after the launch of ChatGPT, the hype and - unfortunately - the h y s t e r i a surrounding AI and LLMs has not ebbed.
The bold nature of some of those statements is aggravated by the exoneration of scientists and technologists from the burden of proof. The lack of reasoned, measured, and evidence-based discourse about genAI, especially from very eminent researchers, should make you feel uneasy. There is so much money involved, and the technology is likely to directly impact your job, your safety, your mental health, and your planet. It also allows companies to discount risk and responsibility, and pass that hot potato to the next downstream user.
It fosters an ecosystem of middlemen start-ups with dubious added-value. Have your data scientists promised you magical systems via “fine-tuning”, but produced only tepid results? How many AI practitioners have given you a hand-wave as an answer to questions about cost and safety of those systems? Many are already profiteering from this hysteria to sell you yet another flavor of snake oil, excepts this time, the oil “understands” or “will take over”. 🙄
