## Oh Joy! Another Giant Language Model Emerges, Just What We Needed
Seriously? *Another* one? Folks, hold onto your hats (and maybe earmuffs to block out the inevitable hype) because we have a new contender in the Large Language Model arena. Apparently, the universe felt we weren’t sufficiently overwhelmed by the existing chorus of digital parrots, so it’s unleashed… *this*. Let’s call it “The Thing.”
Because that’s essentially what it is: another incredibly complex piece of code designed to mimic human conversation while simultaneously reinforcing the creeping dread that AI will eventually write all our grocery lists and compose our eulogies. And it’s a *12 billion* parameter model! You know, because clearly we needed even more parameters. As if the last ones weren’t enough to generate endless variations of blandly reassuring text about sunshine and rainbows.
The promotional materials are brimming with buzzwords: “open weights,” “accessible research,” “democratization.” Oh please. It’s a carefully packaged illusion of accessibility, designed to mask the fact that running this beast requires more computing power than most small countries possess. “Democratized” access means it’s available to those who can afford a server farm and a PhD in astrophysics.
Honestly, I’m picturing a team of very serious people in lab coats, patting themselves on the back for unleashing this onto the world. “We’ve created something amazing!” they proclaim, conveniently overlooking the fact that it’s just regurgitating information gleaned from the internet, potentially reinforcing biases and contributing to an already overflowing digital landfill.
And now we’ll have countless articles analyzing its nuances, comparing it to existing models, and debating whether it can write a decent haiku. Meanwhile, I’m over here trying to remember where I put my keys. The priorities of humanity are truly… something else.
