I’m sorry but “evangelist” to me conjures an image of a techbro on a street corner with a makeshift shelf of Google Cloud brochures advertising free documentation study hours.
There’s Jehowa Witnesses doing the same schtick one block over and they’re absolutely furious he took their favourite spot.
Also, speaking from experience trying to do any database work for large corporate clients, no data house is in order. It’s basically saying “assume a spherical cow, then AI works”.
Google Cloud Chief Evangelist
That cannot be an official title someone has, can it?
I just want to latch onto one more thing there:
GPTs are great at transforming information. Transformations include compression, decompression, and inter-language translation, among others.
Okay mister computer scientist, sure, what is “transforming information”? From what you’re saying it appears like you’re describing basically any map from information to other information. But AMONG OTHERS that includes a map going from NO INFO to CONFIDENT BULLSHIT. And I do agree LLMs are amazing at it.
Here, I’ll sketch it out for you in fucking LaTeX:
$\emptyset \mapsto \mathit{Nonsense}$
How do they sysadmin a server that doesn’t have any display devices aside from the terminal then? Which in my experience is almost all of them?
Amazing.
I could “publish” my homeworks from the 5yrs of college onto arxiv and that’d be a more scientifically valuable endeavour. Better formatted, too.
Dunno, the funniest thing about them to me is that they’re still divided into 7-8 sections, each one-paragraph long. Just a guy who was never told he was wrong in his life and his idea of what research looks like.
There’s one classified as “SSRN Electronic Journal 2023 | Journal article”, I thought this was something like a predatory journal, hence the “almost”, but now that I clicked on it I think this is just an arxiv-like website that calls itself an “electronic journal”? No fucking idea.
I am unfairly misrepresenting that for sneer purposes but if you want to see what happens when someone with typical cryptobro brainworms gets access to a paper-looking PDF template:
Those “papers” are gold, they’re mostly a few pages long, and they span such a wild range of topics as:
I’ve never seen someone in such a dire need of a wedgie, come on man, you spend the hours of your life writing your farts into LaTeX and generating DOIs for them, this isn’t healthy.
This thread is an unending source of amusement.
Someone there found his ORCID and… It’s not great: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2835-3521
He has basically nothing published, but has like 40 different “preprints”, read PDFs he uploaded to arxiv with no peer review.
I use these tools daily. I have also built software which utilizes genAI. I have also worked on fine-tuning GPTs. I have written extensive [sic!] on the topic. I also have formal training in mathematics, computer science, engineering, and anthropology1. [emph. mine]
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1 No he doesn’t? His Education lists A.S. in Engineering, A.S. in Computer Science, and B.S. in Mathematics, that anthropology claim seems completely made up.
I’m sorry, but you’re wrong. You’re also mansplaining to an expert. While I admit that I am not an expert on law and am listening when corrections related to LAW and the practice of LAW are concerned, you do not want to admit your lack of understanding of this technology.
My god DANIEL, no, people are not mansplaining to you, unless that’s a mask for a Danielle.
EDIT: Down the thread he responds to Kathryn Tewson, an actual expert, with
Yeah I’m not obligated to answer every question by a horde of people. You should change your name to Karen, because you sure act like a fucking entitled white bitch.
This guy has such a punchable face, even though I’ve never seen him. I can just tell.
…what… What would they use instead?
Before: searching in Internet Explorer “how to install Chrome”
Now:
My “executive class destruction” fantasy has a lot more literal executive action and large sharp instruments rather than financial instruments.
breaking every R1 still in service
Total losses estimated at $7.13
It’s genuinely fascinating and mind blowing that coherent language emerges from it
No.
It’s fascinating and mind-blowing that we made pieces of silicon do math with electrons, I can give you that as a baseline reason for awe, we needed quantum physics to get to that point. But once that is established, plausible word combinations (which we’ve had since fucking 1960s with ELIZA) are… rather low on the awesomeness spectrum?
A good analogy is the GPS. The fact that it works at all is an amazing feat, it’s based on hunks of metal we sent to orbit and works correctly only because we understood relativity. What is not fascinating or mind-blowing is that you used it to draw a dick with a cycling app.
So why would you buy into it when presenting a rebuttal?
“Let me show you how ridiculous your point is when taken at face value” is a great way to rebutt, actually.
You’re a Hamburglar Harry
Did no one tell them that “evangelist” is not exactly a positive term? Do they call their sales people “crusaders”, too?