From what I am aware of, LLM capability degrades once you move out of English, and many nation states are either building, or considering the option of building their own LLMs.
For some reason, I find that these tools are TERRIBLE at helping someone learn. I suspect because turning one on, results in turning the problem solving part of ones brain off.
Its obviously not the same experience for everyone. ( If you are one of those energized while working in a chat window, you might be in a minority - given what we see from the ongoing massacre of brains in education. )
Paraphrasing something I read here "people don't use ChatGPT to do learn more, they use it to study less".
The issue isn’t in creating a new monstrosity in excel.
The issue is the poor SoB who has to spelunk through the damn thing to figure out what it does.
Excel is the sweet spot of just enough to be useful, capable enough to be extensible, yet gated enough to ensure everyone doesn’t auto run foreign macros (or whatever horror is more appropriate).
In the simplest terms - it’s not excel, it’s the business logic. If an excel file works, it’s because theres someone who “gets” it in the firm.
I used to live in Excel too. I've trudged through plenty of awful worksheets. The output I've seen from AI is actually more neatly organized than most of what I used to receive in outlook. Most of that wasn't hyper-sophisticated cap table analyses. It was analysis from a Jr Analyst or line employee trying to combine a few different data sources to get some signal on how XYZ function of the business was performing. AI automation is perfectly suitable for this.
Neat formatting didn't save any model from having the wrong formula pasted in.
Being neat was never a substitute for being well rested, or sufficiently caffeinated.
Have you seen how AI functions in the hands of someone who isn't a domain expert? I've used it for things I had no idea about, like Astro+ web dev. User ignorance was magnified spectacularly.
This is going to have Jr Analysts dumping well formatted junk in email boxes within a month.
As an inveterate Excel lover, I can just sense the blinding pain wafting off the legions of accountants, associates, seniors, and tech people who keep the machine spirits placated.
lies, damn lies, statistics, and then Excel deciding cell data types.
A Reuters poll on the White House demolitions had a 63% approval for one question and a 40% approval rating for another question - from Republican voters.
As long as there exists a content economy on the right that does’t have to pay their dues to reality, you will not stop a political machine which is based upon fantasy.
The only thing that will cut through the noise is a recession, because that cannot be spun. Even then - that would just be a speed bump; eventually the recession will pass.
Beckley uses "rogue" to imply a commitment to unilateralism in a world where multilateralism is increasingly viewed as a norm, and to rewrite the rules of international engagement with allies to me much more one-sided.
> As a result, U.S. strategy is shedding values and historical memory, narrowing its focus to money and homeland defense. Allies are discovering what unvarnished unilateralism feels like, as security guarantees become protection rackets and trade deals are enforced with tariffs. This is the same logic of raw power that helped spur two world wars, and the consequences are already visible.
Being compared to criminals and failed nations that started wars is not typically how America Ascendant believers frame the nation.
Over a decade of domestic pop geopolitical thought explicitly describing these circumstances as a win condition for the USA. This strain of American ascendance has been blackpilled onto this path since Obama.
“Rogue Superpower” is said while feigning dismay and hiding unadulterated glee. Peter Zeihan has millions and millions of views.
Technology has been used to absolutely decimate the news media. Organizations like Fox have blazed the path forward for how news organizations succeed in the cable and later internet worlds.
You just give up on uneconomical efforts at accuracy and you sell narratives that work for one political party or the other.
It is a model that has been taken up world over. It just works. “The world is too complex to explain, so why bother?”
And what will you or me do about it? Subscribe to the NYT? Most of us would rather spend that money on a GenAI subscription because that is bucketed differently in our heads.
Argh… yes … I was being lazy, and definitely didnt want to spend the calories figuring out or coining the right classification for what the NYT is doing.
Yes, the crossword has existed for longer, but it was never the core source of funding.
It’s interesting, and I doubt it can scale - every newspaper has its own puzzle section?
Right I guess in the old model they were often syndicated. But as a kid I remember seeing things like the jumble, word search, cryptic something or other etc. in my local small-ish city newspaper
> It means that now, people are paying for their AI subscriptions
Most people are not paying a cent. And the people that are, are paying for stuff like coding assistance or classification, not the kind of info you get on Wikipedia.
Looking up Wikipedia-style information on LLM's is not a driving factor in paid subscriptions to ChatGPT etc.
Plus all your T&S/AI Safety is not solved with translation, you need lexicons and data sets of examples.
Like, people use someone in Malaysia, to label the Arabic spoken by someone playing a video game in Doha - the cultural context is missing.
The best proxy to show the degree of lopsidedness was from this : https://cdt.org/insights/lost-in-translation-large-language-...
Which in turn had to base it on this: https://stats.aclrollingreview.org/submissions/linguistic-di...
From what I am aware of, LLM capability degrades once you move out of English, and many nation states are either building, or considering the option of building their own LLMs.
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