Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 2/10/25 4:50 PM, D wrote:

  On Mon, 10 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

And here we are now with AI.  Depending on how you count this is the third
cycle of promising the world, falling on your ass, and going back to the
drawing board for a decade or two.

 This is the truth! I wonder how spectacular the crash will be? What gives me
hope is that all of the AI startups, sucking in billions are private. I hope
that this will shield the stock market _somewhat_ from the worst effects of
collapse.

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 Yesterday, kinda-broke France put 100 billion into 'AI'.
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 Modern "AI" does have its uses, but also seems to have
 limitations that will cap its utility. Not sure the
 current approaches will ever graduate from "AI" to "EI".
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 Of course MAYBE that's a good thing ...

As good a sign as any, that maybe we are approaching the end of the hype cycle when the EU will throw away 200 billion EUR at building "AI-factories".
A lot of professional con men will surely flock to suck at the public teat to see how much of that 200 billion they can get away with, without having to promise (or deliver) any kind of result. =/

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Today I heard about the first EB opportunity in storage. I remember when I sold
my first PB deal, and I thought that was incredible. Today, the first EB
opportunity. I hope I will get the chance to sell a EB solution. That would be
nice! =D
 

But, it all started with a branch of psychology: how does that wetware
work?

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 You want "physiological psychology", not the freshman-friendly
 Psych-101.
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 To emulate the wetware you need something a lot like neural
 networks. This may not be the best way - Nature made do with
 what it had - but there may be some functional equations
 hidden down in all that goo which can be used effectively.
 NNs are 'getting better', after a LONG time, but LLMs were
 the 'easier' faster way to get pretend IQ so that's where
 the money went.
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 I've always been impressed with things like baby cows
 and horses and even elephants. They pop out and within
 an hour are trotting around and acting all appropriate.
 Where did human ancestors go wrong ??? Elephants are
 smart large-brained critters too - not like 'born ready'
 is limited to pinheaded things. NNs should aim at being
 E-lephants when you press the "ON" button, with a lot
 of How To and How To Do Better already burned in there.
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 Current NNs ... well ... we're MISSING SOMETHING, some
 kind of "it" ... and clearly it's not easy to identify.
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 Hmmmm ... idea ... put the LLMs onto improving NNs  :-)
 Maybe LLMs don't have the tilt/bias/blindspot that keeps
 us from seeing how to make NNs great ? LLMs might be
 able to do 1000 years worth of experimental tweaks
 over a long weekend and eval the results.
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