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   Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 05:58:20 JST Simon Willison

   Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 05:58:18 JST alcinnz

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     @simon On the topic of LLM criticism I will remark: I have tried playing a better role here, but each time I tried engaging in reasonable debate with someone the topic quickly turns to counter-factuals & I regret having started.

     The whole space is very polarized, painting everyone engaged in the topic onto one side of the fence or other. So I minimize my engagement.

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 18:32:51 JST lainy

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     • iveyline
     @simon @iveyline every day hundreds of thousands of AGIs are born, so I wouldn't worry too much.
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     Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 18:32:54 JST Simon Willison

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     • iveyline

     @iveyline I really hope not. I like LLMs that augment human abilities - that give us new tools. That's one of the reasons I'm unexcited about the idea of "AGI" - that sounds like a human-replacement play to me, which doesn't interest me at all.

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     iveyline (iveyline@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 18:32:55 JST iveyline

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     @simon Interesting but what's the point in human terms - to ultimately make us all irrelevant?