09-02-2026, 05:50 AM
I agree that LLMs predict text and that tricks such as anthropomorphisation are promoted by companies to gain more publicity and money.
Apart from that, I think the title of the forum thread itself strays a little from the guidelines.
* If this section of the forum is for off-topic discussion, that means it’s not for discussing OA.
* I suggest that if people want to discuss OA or how to improve OA articles, they should do so in the ‘General Settings Discussion’ forum or the ‘Encyclopedia Galactica Articles’ forum, rather than in the ‘Off-Topic’ forum.
* If the intention wasn’t to discuss OA in this thread (in line with the rule that it’s off-topic), then why include ‘OA’ in the title and suggest that a comparison will be made between AI in OA and AI in the real world?
As I said, this forum thread title ( › AI progress...OAUP vs RL) doesn’t make much sense. But I can see that this conversation is reviving a forum thread from 2025 by Tom Mazanec.
From my point of view, it looked like if Michael Poole wanted to vent his frustration with online discourse and assert that LLM models are far more capable than what he's told on the internet (outside the OA forum). It seems this thread was a way for him to vent and denounce the injustice of those who overlook the technical capabilities of text analysis models.
Regarding OA, I think we should approach the 21st century with a conservative prediction and not focus on trying to figure out what will happen in the 21st century, but rather on enabling us to tell good stories across most of the OA timeline. The 21st century is only a small percentage of what OA encompasses.
I encourage InKoalaWeTrust to complete the Athena Project article and put it online.
Apart from that, I think the title of the forum thread itself strays a little from the guidelines.
* If this section of the forum is for off-topic discussion, that means it’s not for discussing OA.
* I suggest that if people want to discuss OA or how to improve OA articles, they should do so in the ‘General Settings Discussion’ forum or the ‘Encyclopedia Galactica Articles’ forum, rather than in the ‘Off-Topic’ forum.
* If the intention wasn’t to discuss OA in this thread (in line with the rule that it’s off-topic), then why include ‘OA’ in the title and suggest that a comparison will be made between AI in OA and AI in the real world?
As I said, this forum thread title ( › AI progress...OAUP vs RL) doesn’t make much sense. But I can see that this conversation is reviving a forum thread from 2025 by Tom Mazanec.
From my point of view, it looked like if Michael Poole wanted to vent his frustration with online discourse and assert that LLM models are far more capable than what he's told on the internet (outside the OA forum). It seems this thread was a way for him to vent and denounce the injustice of those who overlook the technical capabilities of text analysis models.
Regarding OA, I think we should approach the 21st century with a conservative prediction and not focus on trying to figure out what will happen in the 21st century, but rather on enabling us to tell good stories across most of the OA timeline. The 21st century is only a small percentage of what OA encompasses.
I encourage InKoalaWeTrust to complete the Athena Project article and put it online.
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