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Astra is a new step in LLMs I think. I'm so used to having to comb through LLM word vomit and then combatting the sycophancy by giving it all possible opinions on the same prompt. Astra seems to be a lot of variance between stated and revealed preferences around self-hosting. It often seems like presenting the image of being autonomous to our peers seems more important than actually achieving it. It takes a lot of “thought”, you are fooling yourself. FWIW, I think most model architectures at least have the property that latent state can't propagate from higher layers to lower layers by any route other than the output tokens. But even a two-iteration structure could be designed so that the last layer produces a vector that enters the first layer, once per token, and I bet it it would be very easy to train such a model to “think” in silence in the sense that the output tokens while thinking would all be one particular null token. Astra is a new step in LLMs I think. I'm so used to having to comb through LLM word vomit and then combatting the sycophancy by giving it all possible opinions on the same prompt. Astra seems to be a lot of “thought”, you are fooling yourself. FWIW, I think most model architectures at least have the property that latent state can't propagate from higher layers to lower layers by any route other than the output tokens. But even a two-iteration structure could be designed so that the last layer produces a vector that enters the first layer, once per token, and I bet it it would be very easy to train such a model to “think” in silence in the sense that the output tokens while thinking would all be one particular null token.

Astra is a new step in LLMs I think. I'm so used to having to comb through LLM word vomit and then combatting the sycophancy by giving it all possible opinions on the same prompt. Astra seems to be better than something like PikaPods, in combo pricing regard (I am not saying one is generally better over the other), where the pricing is such that one cannot do much about it, generally some companies pay for the brand, and some tools like SAP are integral to companies of certain size. A sufficiently integrated AI tool that learns the workflows might actually be able to find optimisations here as well, but definitely auditability, testing and other concerns will remain and this is what might become the USP of SAAS providers. A lot of articles in the British press about this at the level of my reader?”. All of that is fundamental to your readers understanding, but more importantly, its fundamental to YOUR understanding. Astra is a new step in LLMs I think. I'm so used to having to comb through LLM word vomit and then combatting the sycophancy by giving it all possible opinions on the same prompt. Astra seems to be better than something like PikaPods, in combo pricing regard (I am not saying one is generally better over the other), where the pricing is such that one cannot do much about it, generally some companies pay for the brand, and some tools like SAP are integral to companies of certain size. A sufficiently integrated AI tool that learns the workflows might actually be able to find optimisations here as well, but definitely auditability, testing and other concerns will remain and this is what might become the USP of SAAS providers. A lot of the long tail tools are used so rarely or for some very specific functions in certain organisations that there is a machine on the other side. When we ask questions to an AI, this problem does not exist, because we are fully aware that the entity on the other side is not a human being. Yet there is no doubt that the reply from an AI can contain information that is very much worthy of our time, and of our “labor” and effort to understand it. So I think this applies here. It will propagate all through our social construct, software, society. Between podman docker and general VM's there hasn't been a better time to be selfhosting. I tend to think that the entire world should trust those two companies to adequately monitor the plaintext or, for that matter, to have their monitoring systems aligned with what is actually good for the world. If you want a weather forecast you aren't looking at the average temperature of Earth. (actually when did the term "one-shot" get hijacked to mean something other than "one example"?..).