On: How AI is unlocking ancient texts

[datavirtue]

Nothing to see here. LLMs and AI suck and aren't really good at anything. /s

The world is about to change much faster than any of us have ever witnessed to this point. What a life.

[muglug → datavirtue]

There’s a big difference between LLMs and this application of CNNs and RNNs.

Very few people on HN are claiming there’s no value to neural networks — CNNs have been heralded here for well over a decade.

[mcphage → datavirtue]

There are definitely things they’re good at. And there’s definitely things that they’re bad at, worse than nothing at all. The problem is how often they’re being used in the later case, and how rarely in the former.

[zeofig → datavirtue]

Build a strawman, knock him down, and plant the glorious flag of hyperbole on his strawwy corpse.