Cool. And the other person implies that the queries can search across all rows if necessary? For example if all images have people and the question is which images have the same people in them. Or are you talking about a different project?
I think the previous post refers to a different project. But yes: ThalamusDB can process all rows if necessary, including matching all images that have the same persons in them.
I’m working on a new vision-language model architecture called Onida. Our aim is to match—or surpass—the performance of leading VLMs like LLavA and CogVLM, while operating at a fraction of the cost. Unlike most existing VLMs, which layer vision components onto a language model as an afterthought, Onida is designed from first principles with a truly integrated approach.
This document [1] outlines our key differentiators, and we’re now inviting beta participants to explore and test the technology.
I largely share Yann LeCun’s perspective that scaling LLM-based approaches will eventually hit a plateau, and that a paradigm shift will be necessary. While there is ongoing debate about what that next paradigm should be, I outline my own views on the subject in this paper [1].
Given a long enough timeframe, I think you're right. But I don't think that's a 'near future' state, but probably a 'in a few decades' state. More generally, I believe that eventually we'll reach a 'post-work society' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-work_society).
And that'll be interesting for humanity, as we derive at least some identity from the work we're doing.
Man, I wish I had your optimism. I can see us entering "post-work", but that's only because those who own the means of production no longer require us, and our resulting crises will be much lower on Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs.
Well, at the moment both "growth" and "wealth" have been removed from a lot humanity, having been abstracted into a market that most people can barely, if at all, participate in, and that has nearly entirely moved away from "you're worth $x because you make x widgets". I can't image that will disappear.
I'm not convinced that the indicators they use for growth would stop increasing. As people are so quick to point out, most of these people's worth is in the market, and that stopped being a rational actor a long while ago.
I'm talking about the belief that somehow AI will eventually do all our jobs for us. I don't personally believe that LLMs will get anywhere close to that.
Yeah, I'm definitely agreeing with you on this. Which is why I think we're probably decades out from a post-work society. I do think it's inevitable, but in an optimistic kind of way.
My take is that an LLM is not ever going to lead to AGI, it's fundamentally the wrong paradigm to develop true intelligence.
Either way, I doubt that will happen in my lifetime and I don't spend any time worrying about it.
Interesting indeed. Depending on the country you're in, "post work" will mean your value to the current violent, ruling regime is 0 or negative, with predictable consequences.
Luckily for the regime, the killbots are already here, AI-powered, and under their control.
When AI takes all the jobs, it better start ordering junk from Amazon, have a Costco membership, order in Tacos on Tuesday and watch Instagram reels all day on its brand new iPhone because all the jobless people won’t be able to.
No. Blackberry _never_ had the market penetration that apple had. They were an enterprise first company and barely had a foothold in the consumer market.
Apple wiped out blackberry in the enterprise market after it dominated the consumer market and it _barely even tried_.
Those people change their phones every two to three years. What kind of lead time is that? It is one where you get phased out quickly. With blackberry they kept it for like five years.
No, not really. Peak Blackberry was both tiny compared to iPhone usage today and in a very different context, with very little of the economy or daily lives invested directly into a rich ecosystem dependent on the phones.
