On the other hand, Google was openly collecting data with a view towards building AI.
You could view LLMs as a super-charged mutation function inside a genetic programming harness.
The LLM is the oven, the harness is the kitchen. You prep all your ingredients and put it into the oven (flour, water, salt, sugar). It transforms those inputs into a finished product (cake, loaf of bread).I don't think we've scratched the surface of how the harness can fold, spindle and mutilate the LLM. It just seems unlikely to me that we happened to stumble on the best possible interface a couple of years out of the gate.
You can make the argument that some eng aren't good at writing, to which I say — it's worthwhile to improve writing skills.
Why this spate of pretending, against all evidence, that LLMs are alive, or even remotely structured like biological brains?
Why do we have so many people pretending, or disingenuously claiming, that they're alive, have thoughts, feelings, etc?
And why, oh why, do we have to read yet more LLM propaganda written by LLMs?
We did a harness optimization on Jev. Raw it was no where near as good as deekseek, but optimized it was significantly better and a tiny fraction of the cost. https://kiln.tech/blog/auto_optimizing_jev_with_autoresearch
prologic•45m ago