Colin Clark on LinkedIn: Robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and painted cardboard (2024)

Even though the people who had this done have their own agenda this is not really news. Agile has been called "Fragile" for as long as I have known of it. I mean, come on, not defining the project before you initiate it? You should have a walk through before you do a "sprint"...everyone knows you have to walk before you can run!No worries, blockchain code management with NFT documentation written by LLMs to run software on Web3 priced in cryptocurrency will solve the problem...NOT!https://lnkd.in/eD8Gpakc

Ha Ha Ha!!!InaccurateInsecureEnergy hungryResource HungryUnprovenLimited lifespan due to the fact it trains on the output of LLMs which means the degradation will accelerate over timeNow add "unreliable"https://lnkd.in/eRz6wKzC

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Yup, AI will be the end of the human race. Not because it will rise up, but because the idiots that believe this is a viable technology will actually kill themselves eating rocks and gluing cheese to pizza basesI, however, cannot wait that long, please kill me now, I have had enough of this blind infatuation society has with predictive ducking texting!!https://lnkd.in/eJUiq_tR

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So the LLM express is going to come off the rails sooner or later, but it looks like sooner rather than laterMultiple LLMs from multiple vendors, enter the same prompt and you get it stuck in a loop pumping out gibberish. This is clearly a flaw in the underlying concept, not the individual implementationSimple DDOS attack, get multiple people to submit the same prompt, not even an attack, and the whole house of cards collapses as the system overloads itselfWhat if there is a similar flaw in copilot that has been embedded into (or even taken over) Windows? That could take out whole enterprises just by using an approved piece of software in an approved manner. Every PC (and server??) crashes on demand, not just the vendor site lunching itself!Still glad you bet the farm on predictive texting?https://lnkd.in/eS5wjEaA

AI will make us loads of money, let’s charge for it.2 weeks laterLet’s drop prices by 97% There is a term in business for this, it’s called a race to the bottom. You cannot cut prices by more than 100%, you cannot reduce costs to less than zero, the only way to grow sales and margin is to sell more or to increase prices. As the technology is unreliable, insecure and unproven people are clearly not totally falling for the hype - they ain’t buying even at the current price.Cannot wait for the LLM “big bang”….the sound when the bubble bursts and this goes the same way a Web3, NFT’s, CraptoCurrencies, DeFi (and hopefully everything Elon Musk touches)https://lnkd.in/egauGvJm

Aside from the fantasists that believe crapto currencies are anything other than a huge pyramid scam there are the people who believe the blockchain is the future. They claim it is infallible, they claim nothing else is even close to the security and integrityIt’s software, software has weaknesses and as this article shows these will be discovered and exploited. So now we know, DeFi means “defies belief that people will believe the claims made by these delusional people”Next we will hear that LLM’s will be the new finance, the old tech has had it’s day, non-existent quantum computers that are intelligent will trade our NFT’s in craptocurrencies using AI. That will be a good bullsh*t bingo day!https://lnkd.in/e_etGNsM

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So one of the "success stories" touted by ML/AI fantasists is the driver aid functions used by Tesla and many other manufacturersI would suggest they distance themselves from these claims rapidly. The similarities of Elon Musk at Tesla and the promises being made by "AI" vendors are a likely indicator of what is to comeVendor promises "all singing all dancing" technologyReality is massively different - if the user attempts to use the technology in the way it was touted to perform it fails with sometimes fatal consequencesCustomers quite rightly complainVendor tries to use contractual nuances, arbitration, misdirection and delaying tactics to avoid the issuesCustomers do not give upMatter eventually arrives in courtTesla will lose if there is any justice in the justice system - the customer was offered something with specific functionality, bought the product on the basis of that offer, the product did not deliver on the promises. Cannot see how the case(s) can failSo let's look at how this relates to the promises being made by "AI" vendors touting their LLM predictive texting platforms...Oooh, it's exactly the same - unrealistic promises, undeliverable benefits, customers foolishly falling for fictitious claims, soon to learn they bought an empty box and paid a fortunes for itWonder how long before the first company decides that suing the LLM vendor will deflect attention from their own gullibility?https://lnkd.in/eQyrxuCv

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For all my contacts from the Somerfield / Gateway / International Stores days:I am sad to tell you that Mick Mckenna sadly passed away recently. He will be sorely missed by both family and friends. I knew Mick for over 40 years, and he was my manager in the first ever office job I had. I learned a lot from him (including what not to do), ignored a lot of what I learned (including not what to do) but he left me as a better person for knowing him. I may not have seen him for a few years but was still proud to have called him a friendMy condolences to his family, they have the greatest loss of all of us.

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Thought leader in your profile indicates you believe the stuff you say has never been said before because you are really cleverSadly, the truth is that most of it HAS been thought of by people far brighter and knowledgeable than you, the difference is that they were clever enough to realise that it was either common knowledge (and hence they would look stupid for posting it) or so dumb it should never be put in writing (and hence they would look stupid for posting it)Thought Leader - Someone who posts stuff everyone already knows or everybody already knows is dumb. Stop it please!

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