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  • This is simply revolutionary. I think once OpenAI adopts this in their own codebase and all queries to ChatGPT cause millions of recursive queries to ChatGPT, we will finally reach the singularity.

    • There was a paper about improving llm arithmetic a while back (spoiler: its accuracy outside of the training set is... less than 100%) and I was giggling at the thought of AI getting worse for the unexpected reason that it uses an llm for matrix multiplication.

      • Yeah lol this is a weakness of LLMs that's been very apparent since their inception. I have to wonder how different they'd be if they did have the capacity to stop using the LLM as the output for a second, switched to a deterministic algorithm to handle anything logical or arithmetical, then fed that back to the LLM.

    • bit idea: the singularity but the singularity just crushes us with the colossal pressure past the event horizon of a black hole.

  • Can we make a simulation of a CPU by replacing each transistor with an LLM instance?

    Sure it'll take the entire world's energy output but it'll be bazinga af

  • lets add full seconds of latency to malloc with a non-determinate result this is a great amazing awesome idea it's not like we measure the processing speeds of computers in gigahertz or anything

    • sorry every element of this application is going to have to query a third party server that might literally just undershoot it and now we have an overflow issue oops oops oops woops oh no oh fuck

      • want to run an application? better have internet fucko, the idea guys have to burn down the amazon rainforest to puzzle out the answer to the question of the meaning of life, the universe, and everything: how many bits does a 32-bit integer need to have

  • This right here is giving me flashbacks of working with the dumbest people in existence in college because I thought I was too dumb for CS and defected to Comp Info Systems.

  • I switched degrees out of CS because of shit like this. The final straw was having to write code with pencil and paper on exams. I'm probably happier than I would've been making six figures at some bullshit IT job (

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    • Honestly I like writing code on paper vs. actual code on a computer. But that just means I should have majored in math.

    • if it makes u feel better i graduated out of CS and can't find a job bc the field is so oversaturated

    • I had to do that once. That was pre ChatGPT tho so I can imagine it's worse because the rampant cheating.

      • I had to do it too (before and after LLM era) but it's not really necessary ever. If they want us not to use ChatGPT they can make us take exams in a computer lab with supervision. For some reason, one or two profs refuse to do that and still hand out exams on paper where you gotta write entire scripts. Deeply unserious field.

      • I was pre ChatGPT also. Still do writing for my current job but I'm too much of a boomer to trust it with anything.

  • Every time the program compiles, malloc() allocates a different amount of memory. A third of these crash the system because ChatGPT pulled a joke post claiming that a single integer takes up 128GB.

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