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Don't You Mean Extinct?
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Jurassic Park, released in 1993, significantly advanced the use of CGI in films. Director Steven Spielberg initially doubted CGI's ability to realistically portray dinosaurs, leading him to hire stop-motion expert Phil Tippett for the project.
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- Praise: LLMs have much larger working memories for programming tasks, allowing for faster goal achievement and better competition in job markets.
- Praise: You can accomplish quite a lot with smaller local models on reasonably priced hardware, making AI tools more accessible for developers.
- Praise: Many enjoy the collaborative aspect of using LLMs, likening it to pair programming with a superhuman assistant.
- Concern: The reliance on paywalled, proprietary LLMs is fundamentally opposed to the hacker ethos, limiting access and creativity.
- Concern: Smaller open models are often inferior and rely on external scraps, raising concerns about their effectiveness and sustainability.
- Concern: There's a pervasive fear that those who don't adopt LLMs will be left behind, emphasizing a troubling focus on output volume over quality.