Rhaedas

Not a real monologue, but Humbaba mocks Gilgamesh and Enkidu for their hubris and lack of wisdom. He specifically attacks Enkidu, questioning his origins and his betrayal of the wild. He vows to slaughter them both and feed their flesh to the birds and beasts of the forest.

If you just put something else in the cart to bump it to 24 million, you would get free shipping.

My mother was once hit from septic shock, and barely got through it. She waited thinking it was just something she ate or whatever, and had they waited another 30 mins to call 911, it would have been too late. Don't ignore your body tells.

Maybe it's not AI slop, but we're just too dumb to understand it.

Even though if you didn't tell them about the part they're missing, they wouldn't realize because it's so little of the whole. But they have to have every damn cent they can grab.

We don't know for sure. Maybe he was in terrible pain, briefly. Let's just keep that possibility to make us feel better.

Yeah, the RAM isn't the problem if you have it, it's the CPU/GPU cycles to do what could be done with simpler tools.

I actually considered getting an ebike once to get to work, but then started mapping out a good route to take and realized the infrastructure isn't designed for that kind of travel. Bonus, it would be at night, so statistically someone in a car would be a threat to me eventually, because bike lanes are a joke.

The best way to show the problems of LLMs now is to explore an alternative timeline where the technology was developed not for profitability, but for efficiency, usefulness, and the science itself. This means they used properly obtained data to train on. They looked at the steps along the way to try and improve the output's validity, not how well it appeals to the public. They measured the cost of growth vs. the energy use and resource exploitations to find a balance. There's certainly more that could have been done better.

We wouldn't have what we have though. Throwing money at it and ignoring the effects and ethics got us a lot more, faster. But at what price? It's also tainted the original AI field and label.

One positive thing. It's demonstrated that the dangers of AGI and how we'd behave in its emergence are real. That should be frightening. All the fiction writers were right. And LLMs, while not AGI, can in the right hands and application cause disasters. Hell, we've already seen it in small scale as companies threw out the old to bring in the AI and (some) realized it was a mistake.

I don't celebrate. But I do use Grumpy Cat's line. Then move on.

Unfortunately there are things that can come out of nowhere, even for younger people. It's not common, but still a bit scary to think about. You can be fine one day and suddenly if you don't notice the symptoms early enough... Septic shock is a big one. Stroke and heart issues are others.

Which ending? I'd take either that you were hinting at. An Arya ninja move from nowhere, or a Bran the Broken settlement. Either way, at least with reality we'll be able to see what's going on at night.