Oh, Great. Another LLM.

Right, so Meta’s decided to unleash more AI garbage on the world. They’re calling it Llama 3. Fantastic. As if we didn’t have enough chatbots spewing nonsense already.

Basically, they’ve got two versions: an 8B parameter model and a 70B parameter one. The 8B is supposed to be fast and efficient for smaller tasks – you know, the stuff your toaster oven could probably handle if it had enough RAM. The 70B is…bigger. Shocking. They claim it’s competitive with Gemini Pro 1.5 and GPT-4, but let’s be real, every company *claims* that.

It’s “open,” which means anyone can download it and inevitably use it to create something deeply irritating or actively harmful. They’re pushing this whole “responsible AI” angle, naturally, with a bunch of safety features and red-teaming exercises. Like *that’ll* stop the internet from breaking it within five minutes.

It’s integrated into Meta’s platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) because, surprise, they want more data. They also made a new coding language called Code Llama 3 which is supposed to be good at generating code. I bet it generates buggy, insecure crap just like everything else.

Oh, and there’s a whole section about how they’re trying to make the AI less likely to hallucinate. Good luck with that. These things are fundamentally liars. They *will* invent facts. Don’t trust them for anything important.

Honestly, it’s just more of the same. Bigger models, slightly better performance, and a whole lot of hype. Prepare for disappointment. And probably a flood of AI-generated spam.

Source: TechCrunch – Meta Llama 3

Speaking of hallucinations, I once had a junior dev try to convince me that using Comic Sans in production code was “a valid aesthetic choice.” I swear, sometimes I think the machines are already winning.

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