Private artificial intelligence – the local entrepreneur
Do you remember that scene.
He stands behind the counter in his small shop and greets you by name when the bell rings at the door.
Or he lifts his head from a row of bricks and asks if Uncle has already decided on the new garage.
Or he gets out of the car and looks experimentally – are you just asking this time, or do you want something more.
Today it is almost inevitable to find a smartphone user who would not visit at least once one of the sites for conversation with some form of artificial intelligence.
Sometimes we even compulsively ask about every little detail.
How much does a brick and half a brick weigh?
How to cook potatoes well?
Where does Jeff Bezos live?
The fact is – we get an answer.
The only question is whether we remember that there were – and still are! – certain people in society who would give us that answer anyway.
Where does AI knowledge come from
Because where does LLM knowledge come from?
Such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or DeepSeek?
From "connecting the dots".
From having tens of thousands of pieces of information, linking one piece to another.
Just like our neurons.
Just like our brain.
So are they a breakthrough?
They are what we have always had.
That is, the knowledge of a nearby person who has experienced a lot, gone through many things, learned a lot and can be an inspiration for us.
Nevertheless, they have reduced the cost of copying that knowledge.
The first cost of acquiring knowledge from someone who knew many people was to ask them.
Leaving your comfort zone.
Looking into the eyes of that person who knows a lot, and even more, and admitting ignorance and the desire to satisfy curiosity.
This question had extraordinary power.
The effort that builds a person
After all, effort shapes us.
What is difficult makes us great people.
Every time we take on what we do not want, we become more.
And why do we take on what we do not want?
Because beyond that threshold of discomfort lies what we truly want.
When a small child, a young man or a young lady needed to break the shame associated with asking, they discovered that when they ask, they get more.
Yes, sometimes it was also related to some mockery or misunderstanding.
But did we not learn then to acquire benefits later, and today to accept the cost?
That is what shaped the lady behind the counter in her own shop, the local builder or Mr. Zbyszko, who was always able to drive to someone's house and "take care of" what needed to be done.
They, overcoming dozens of their barriers, reached situations where they comfortably moved from person to person.
They asked.
They acquired knowledge.
They built relationships.
They learned desires.
Do they still bind society together today?
Human language models
Yes.
And the most beautiful fact is that both you and I, dear Reader, are also able to bind the social fabric together.
What will I get out of this? – you ask.
I encourage you – leave that question for later.
If you ask it, it means you want instant gratification instead of the great joy of knowing that in the future you will have more.
So sometimes close your eyes and say:
"Lead me where I do not want to go".
And wake up in a new reality.
These Human Language Models, unlike artificial ones, have gone through many hardships that forced them to accept the cost now and receive the reward later.
We, dear Reader, often do not have to pay the cost now to live.
So we don't pay it.
So we give up.
But will we then train our neural network, our own head, to give true answers?
Or will we flood it with worthless content, start hallucinating and saying things that are absolutely meaningless?
Exactly.
Who do you want to be?
Do you want to be just an executor and a gear?
Do you want to be a watchmaker fixing other people's watches?
Do you want to be the owner of a manor whose curators break the lunch hour?
Who do you want to be?
Andrzej Kwiatkowski - Master Your Finances
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