another valiant attempt to get “promptfonder” into more common currency

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Just one more model bro

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Shumer credits Glaive AI — a company he invested in — for its LLM special cases, like telling which number is bigger or how many times the letter “r” appears in the word “strawberry.” Those are the two examples Shumer named to VentureBeat.

I quite often pondered how cool it’d have been to be a computer scientist like 50-70 years ago, you know, one of the pioneers, people on whose shoulders the entire tech sector rests now.

Think about all the advantages! Maybe I’d get to talk to Turing! Maybe I’d invent a foundational algorithm that would be in textbooks forever! Maybe I would’ve fucking died before this absolute blight on our domain happened!

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I quite often pondered how cool it’d have been to be a computer scientist like 50-70 years ago

Most likely you’d be an et. al. in someone’s footnote

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1. Better known for other work

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Now that is leaving your mark in history as an academic.

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Probably, but I would probably also never have heard the phrase “generative AI”, so win?

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Promptfondler sounds like an Aphex Twin song title.

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other models in a trenchcoat

It keeps happening.

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Two models in a trenchcoat trying to buy a ticket for an R-rated movie.

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