Guys like these will be out of a job. No surprise they try to attack what the can now.

And that is not what is being done. At all. Get a clue about self-driving tech.

Yes stupid things are done by many people every day. Your point? Oh, you do not have one. I see.

You just rediscovered the toddler-level "No, YOU stink!". Congratulations.

How you can be sure that will impact the final outcome in any tangible way?

That is the goal but that goal runs counter to the real world where unpredictable situations occur and people get injured or killed despite having machinery with deterministic behaviors. This can be the result of failing machinery or more often operator error. As such, the questions are if AI will behave in a more predictable manner than humans and what is the scope of the potential consequences of unpredictable behavior.

I'm highly skeptical of large neural networks but think optimized neural networks can provide superior results to our own programming efforts which can be equally unpredictable due to edge cases.

If you are going to nitpick then at least verify your complaint is accurate.

In this case, "combat" is being used as a transitive verb and if you make a quick check to any dictionary you will notice there is an applicable definition.

So "combat" and "fight" merely mean it is working to neutralize the nerve agent.

Agreed. Although probably the same "bots" tend to post really stupid comments as well. Hence it is difficult to say whether these are bots or just "useful idiots".

I don't think so. They _know_ AGI is completely out of reach for LLMs. But put in "IPO" instead and you have a point.

That is why a generic network is used. The problem is it has all these other weights that would not have been in a designed network and do not reliably go to zero and hence hallucinations. (This is simplified, of course.)

Or idiots that have no clue but pray to the great machine God. Like the person that moderated this down.

Obviously. This is probably already in place by the obvious gross negligence involved, but that is not enough because it comes with complex and lengthy legal proceedings. We need law that says "You turn on machine, machine hacks other, you could reasonably have expected this, you go to prison".

Indeed. But apparently nobody things to ask "Then why are you doing it?"
Probably because it is clear why they are doing it: Money and power. The two forces that attract the psychos and that turn anything into crap.

It used to be that ANNs were designed for a task, with understanding of that task involved. But that causes high effort, so "training" was invented. Essentially an enshittification step to make thins cheaper, larger and worse.

Yes. They are in a race to get-rich-quick against their products looking more and more defective and problematic. And, yes, the people driving this are clearly psychos on the US side. Not sure about China and Europe looks pretty sane (there is not only Mistral).

There clearly will be. Small Language Models are a thing and very specialized models trained on high-quality data and possibly fitted with a fact-checking layer will be too. But these will not be the tools the LLM scammers are currently hallucinating. They will be in line with the smaller improvements that have come out of every AI hype so far after the dust settled and sanity finally did set in again. Obviously, the upcoming AI Winter will be spectacular but something will survive.