I supported my local instead. 50 mins of lining up to the booths, I wasn’t gonna line up any longer for a snag made by child labour, so got a delicious sausage roll from the bakery instead.

Confirmed. New to the concept of AI.

A link to an LLM back end that’s not even in code.

And a link to something AI has been used for for years, just as I mentioned in my OC, but you’ve been hyperfixated on Clippy, so unsurprisingly things have whooshed past you. A traveller shone light on your magic and you don’t want to accept it’s not magic.

Also, I assume you have subscriptions or single pay options for papers, or at least access to a university that can get them for you at the normal fees?

Since you Google things and share them with me like they’re of any value, you can use Google to learn more about that too.

Sure. I even currently work at a university and am on the committee for AI so I can get a few of the others to share theirs on Monday too.

Plebs?

I’ve been working on and with AI since 2012 lol.

And yeah, “practically magic” has told me enough. When we joke about people, the m-word is the always used when putting on a “normie” persona. I’m having an actual “found one in the wild” moment, it’s great.

Your exposure to AI is maybe new?

If you could understand what’s behind the curtain, you’d realise not much magic is going on back there. What you’re instead noticing is hardware improving, allowing for more aggressive training and processing. The recipe is otherwise pretty much the same as it was five or even eight years ago. This is why we still have the same old issues and they don’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon because the tech is still the same old shit.

And, no, these things you have raised are not new. Perhaps new to some as AI has recently been put on the radar thanks to large-scale training. I can’t explain how someone could draw a conclusion like yours unless the current state of AI seems new to them.

“Echo chamber” is a coincidental selection of words in this context.

Clippy and I are old fr-… acquaintances.

Sounds like standard genAI to me. Train on shit; output shit. It’s not thinking, it’s just loading in the next likely words on a topic.

Common AI in its current state is just 2025 Clippy and finally most people are starting to realise. There’s been no major leaps and bounds in technology, just how that tech was applied to stuff and made more available to the masses.

AI is excellent for many things. GenAI is not for most things. There is no magic, just easier access.