## A Technological Cascade of Slightly-Flat Hops
So, we’ve got another one, haven’t we? Another “breakthrough” in AI, another carefully curated press release promising to revolutionize…something. This time it’s a new model, boasting 3.12 billion parameters, apparently designed to be helpful and harmless. Right. Because *that* has been the consistent track record of things built by people who are convinced they’re saving humanity.
Let me get this straight: we’re supposed to be impressed that it can generate text? Groundbreaking! Truly a feat on par with inventing the wheel, except instead of moving dirt, it moves…words. Words that will likely be used to write more marketing copy for slightly-different versions of the same thing.
The sheer audacity! The predictable fanfare! It’s like someone spilled a truckload of lukewarm craft beer (the kind nobody actually *likes* but pretends to) all over the digital highway and expects us to cheer because it’s…a mess? A big, complex, computationally expensive mess!
I mean, I appreciate the ambition. Someone somewhere spent countless hours training this thing on mountains of data – likely including every questionable online forum post ever written – so we could have a slightly more sophisticated chatbot to politely decline our requests. A digital butler that will gently tell us “As an AI language model…” before explaining why it can’t fulfill the simple task we just asked of it.
It’s magnificent in its mediocrity. A testament to how much time and energy we dedicate to creating slightly-better versions of things already in existence. Pass the pretzels, please. And maybe a chaser of something significantly stronger than lukewarm beer.
