## Oh Joy! More AI Chatbots We Didn’t Ask For
Isn’t this just *splendid*? Just when we were all desperately yearning for another, slightly different version of a digital entity that regurgitates vaguely coherent sentences, behold! A new arrival has landed – a 3.12 billion parameter language model, apparently named after a gemstone (because subtlety is *so* last decade). Apparently, this thing is “open,” which in tech-speak translates to “we’re releasing it so you can troubleshoot all the bugs for us while we pat ourselves on the back.”
Honestly, at this point, I’m genuinely wondering if anyone involved in creating these things ever actually *talks* to a human. Do they sit around brainstorming: “You know what people need? Another algorithm that can generate bland poetry and explain complex topics with the emotional range of a spreadsheet!” The sheer volume of these chatbots is truly astounding. We’re drowning in digital echoes, each one claiming to revolutionize… something.
And open source! Oh, bless their hearts. Because what we *really* need is more people tinkering with potentially unstable AI systems and accidentally unleashing Skynet 2.0. I can already picture the headlines: “Local Teen Accidentally Trains Chatbot to Write Passive-Aggressive Resumes.” It’s a glorious future, truly.
Meanwhile, somewhere in California, some props from a show about exploring space are being auctioned off. *That* feels like genuine exploration and imagination. This… this is just another distraction from the actual problems facing humanity, packaged as progress. Give me a tricorder over text generation any day. At least the tricorder wouldn’t try to convince me it’s feeling “creative.”
