These academics aren’t mincing words here with taking a swipe at the tech bros (and Wall Street’s infatuation) with regards to the ignoring of TRUTH in these LLM’s (large language models) which are the basis of AI/ML. This is why I refer to it as GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). If you feed the system crap, it will spit out crap. Or as these academic researchers put it more bluntly, machine bullshit.
This entire github (plus PDF whitepaper) is so eloquently written that you cannot help but laugh out loud at how big tech and Wall Street has tried to upsell all of this (into a much larger bubble than what the dot com one was). The pump (of AI) is still happening. One doesn’t have to wonder how bad things will get when the rug is finally pulled (history repeating itself again). It’s clear that every few generations, we humans conveniently forget the past and go through the same cycle (with each iteration, becoming worse).
I’m not saying the tech doesn’t have its place. I’ve written about that before. The issue I have is how it is being overhyped by big tech and how Wall Street is complicit in inflating this bubble to even worst levels than the dot com bubble.
