The systems that no one will test

The systems that no one will test(blog.christianperone.com)

35 points by perone 21 hours ago | 9 comments

madaxe_again 5 minutes ago |

Is it just me that has a constant dribble of other people's private data coming to me from government agencies?

This year, I've had the UK variously send me someone else's court summons, someone else's tax documentation (not address error - just inadvertently included as attatchments on emails to me).

I've had portugal disclose property taxation information on any subject to me, through a simple enumeration hole.

And last week I had brazil's ministry of agriculture send me details on other peoples' livestock shipments.

Our information environment is unbelievably porous. There would be no secrets from an unshackled AI.

trashymctrash 55 minutes ago |

i am also worried that all my private data might eventually (once tech is advanced enough) be surfaced somewhere: photos, chats, emails. wondering if i should start cleaning up now or just give up

pvdebbe 1 hour ago |

Is "ML" some UK-ism? I sort of see the connection between machine learning and LLMs but it doesn't seem too obvious to me. And certainly it's not the common nomenclature.

dspillett 5 minutes ago | |

ML (machine learning) became a less fashionable term, so AI took over again (having previously fallen out of favour). The terms are essentially used interchangeably, with the idea of real AI now being referred to as AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) (not GAI or GenAI, as those now stand for Generative AI, which includes LLMs, diffusion models, etc.)

bonoboTP 50 minutes ago | |

Way to get hung up on a tangent. Yes LLMs are ML models, they are trained with an unsupervised learning objective, then fine tuned with supervised learning and then reinforcement learning, which are all the three main branches of machine learning. It is trained on a training set, with optimizing a training loss, with a learning algorithm. It's as ML as it gets. Do you only want to call cat vs dog image classifiers ML? Or only SVMs?

AI is a superset of ML, though today most successful AI approaches are based on ML so the line has blurred in casual speech.

raahelb 49 minutes ago | |

> I sort of see the connection between machine learning and LLMs but it doesn't seem too obvious to me.

Why isn't it obvious? Transformers are deep learning models, and deep learning is a subset of ML.

King-Aaron 49 minutes ago | |

Machine Learning has always been in the vernacular.

FinnKuhn 54 minutes ago | |

I think Apple used to use this a lot in their presentations until 1-2 years ago to mean "AI".