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good article

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First thing I thought of was the college essay(s)- it’s already a corrupted process but now since so much of it can be machine generated, college admissions teams will need to meet candidates and have live interviews to truly vet / assess real capabilities, which may not be a bad thing but has its own limitations.

And... The fact that AI and attendant apps will also comprise another nail in the coffin for the concept of 4-year college as we know it, is perhaps not a bad thing...

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what is your opinion the danger of LLM and these kinds of bots? Here's a recent critique:

"Several of the potential and realized harms of these models have been exhaustively studied. For instance, these models are known to have serious issues with robustness. The sensitivity of the models to simple typos and misspellings in the prompts and the differences in responses caused by even a simple rewording of the same question make them unreliable for high-stakes use, such as translation in medical settings or content moderation, especially for those with marginalized identities. This is in addition to a slew of now well-documented roadblocks to safe and effective deployment—such as how the models memorize sensitive personal information from the training data, or the societal stereotypes they encode. At least one lawsuit has been filed, claiming harm caused by the practice of training on proprietary and licensed data. Dishearteningly, many of these “recently” flagged issues are actually failure modes we’ve documented before—the problematic prejudices being spewed by the models today were seen as early as 2016, when Tay the chatbot was released, and again in 2019 with GTP-2. As models get larger over time, it becomes increasingly difficult to document the details of the data involved and justify their environmental cost. "

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hi, dear

I as physically complete person (having all body parts and working sense) prefer to be learning to know to believe on Almighty Igziabher God and have strengthened faith in life and love so can better function individually, in society and an any level; hence except for those in dire need of machine help and some basic regulated services that I denounce this futile endeavor of humans making machines in to gods as in Idols.

with much love n appreciation to Technically

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