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thousand_nights ◴[] No.42139132[source]
not long ago these people would have you believe that a next word predictor trained on reddit posts would somehow lead to artificial general superintelligence
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1. in_a_society ◴[] No.42141632[source]
Expecting AGI from Reddit training data is peak "pray Mr Babbage".
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2. kreyenborgi ◴[] No.42145309[source]
If you are one of today's ten thousand, this is a reference to the original garbage-in, garbage-out quote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#Passages_from_...