Posted by adunk 12 hours ago
Because this seems to disprove that claim pretty convincingly?
1,000 pings, how many correctly ponged?
Imagine face recognition to work like a text chat, where the PC gets the frame from the camera and writes in the chat: "Who's that? Here's the RGB888 image in hex: ...".
Vision language models are an incredible achievement in the generality and usability. But they pay a hefty price in fidelity and speed
Image gets rasterized into smaller pieces (eg 4x4 pixels) and each of those is assigned a token, similarly how text is broken up into tokens. And the whole thing is fed into a single model.
> Imagine face recognition to work like a text chat, where the PC gets the frame from the camera and writes in the chat: "Who's that? Here's the RGB888 image in hex: ...".
that's p much how it works.
Could Adam use a local model hosted on his own box? Probably yes. But he preferred to waste the service we all use just to produce a weak blog post that introduces absolutely no knowledge and serves no other purpose than to tell everyone that the author likes to waste resources and calls it "fun".
> Ridiculous? Yes. Wasteful of tokens? Sure. Fun? Oh yeah!
Do you really think it's fun to be one of these people who are the reason why the rest of us gets more limits?
In our lives, the game we play, we can do whatever we like. There are consequences for some things, but generally we can do lots of things.
We can kill people and get away with it. We can also help them.
Should we hate life because it's possible to do really shitty things in life? I don't think so. We should hate the "players" who actually do shitty things.
I think this author and I have different definitions of fun.