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chatgpt increasingly looks like the "bro this is going to get big and change the world" crap that comes in every few years.

by pictur 4y ago

tablespoon 4y ago
> chatgpt increasingly looks like the "bro this is going to get big and change the world" crap that comes in every few years. A lot of techies believe in science fiction and over-eagerly look for signs of the advent of worlds like those in their TV shows and books. They also seem to always imagine themselves as the protagonists in those works, so even cheer on the idea of some pretty shitty sci-fi worlds (e.g. cyberpunk dystopias).
- pictur 4y ago
  I think most sci-fi movies are more realistic than predictions about this technology.
- nomel 4y ago
  It's only fiction until it's real. Most everything we have today was science fiction at one point.
  - tablespoon 4y ago
    > It's only fiction until it's real. Most everything we have today was science fiction at one point. Eh, not so much. IMHO, very little science fiction has actually become real, and that which has mainly gets credit through very generous interpretation.
    - nomel 4y ago
      > very little science fiction has actually become real I can't comprehend this perspective, so you'll have to help me out. Look at the fiction from the 20's and 30's. People went to the moon. Robots walked on two legs. People had computers on their wrists. Machines made body parts for people. Do you have some examples of "very generous interpretations"?
      - tablespoon 4y ago
        >> very little science fiction has actually become real > People went to the moon. That's actually a fairly interesting example. People went to the moon, so (narrowly) you could count that as "sci-fi becoming real." However, more broadly, science fiction is about more than about technology, and the world with that technology hasn't turned out anything like the sci-fi zeitgeist depicted. Sci-fi can throw a lot of ideas about technology at the wall, and some will stick, especially vague/easy ones like "smaller computers," but it tends to get everything else wrong. When people "believe in sci-fi," I think they believe in that "everything else."
Cerium 4y ago
The key here is that it can produce output that is at a glance reasonable to educated humans. Many people are saying that ChatGPT is "going to get big and change the world" in the meaning that it will be useful. I'm not yet onboard with that interpretation. I do think that it will change the world - it has the potential to decrease the reliability of information online by a few orders of magnitude.
- nomel 4y ago
  > Many people are saying that ChatGPT is "going to get big and change the world" I see many people saying that AI, like ChatGPT, is going to be big and change the world. ChatGPT and StableDiffusion are the first public exposures to models, looking like a crazy step function in capability. I believe they're indicators that change is coming, but the rate of change is probably a little off for most.

chatgpt increasingly looks like the "bro this is going to get big and change the world" crap that comes in every few years.

by pictur 4y ago

chatgpt increasingly looks like the "bro this is going to get big and change the world" crap that comes in every few years.

tablespoon 4y ago

> chatgpt increasingly looks like the "bro this is going to get big and change the world" crap that comes in every few years. A lot of techies believe in science fiction and over-eagerly look for signs of the advent of worlds like those in their TV shows and books. They also seem to always imagine themselves as the protagonists in those works, so even cheer on the idea of some pretty shitty sci-fi worlds (e.g. cyberpunk dystopias).

pictur 4y ago
I think most sci-fi movies are more realistic than predictions about this technology.
nomel 4y ago
It's only fiction until it's real. Most everything we have today was science fiction at one point.
- tablespoon 4y ago
  > It's only fiction until it's real. Most everything we have today was science fiction at one point. Eh, not so much. IMHO, very little science fiction has actually become real, and that which has mainly gets credit through very generous interpretation.
  - nomel 4y ago
    > very little science fiction has actually become real I can't comprehend this perspective, so you'll have to help me out. Look at the fiction from the 20's and 30's. People went to the moon. Robots walked on two legs. People had computers on their wrists. Machines made body parts for people. Do you have some examples of "very generous interpretations"?
    - tablespoon 4y ago
      >> very little science fiction has actually become real > People went to the moon. That's actually a fairly interesting example. People went to the moon, so (narrowly) you could count that as "sci-fi becoming real." However, more broadly, science fiction is about more than about technology, and the world with that technology hasn't turned out anything like the sci-fi zeitgeist depicted. Sci-fi can throw a lot of ideas about technology at the wall, and some will stick, especially vague/easy ones like "smaller computers," but it tends to get everything else wrong. When people "believe in sci-fi," I think they believe in that "everything else."

Cerium 4y ago

The key here is that it can produce output that is at a glance reasonable to educated humans. Many people are saying that ChatGPT is "going to get big and change the world" in the meaning that it will be useful. I'm not yet onboard with that interpretation. I do think that it will change the world - it has the potential to decrease the reliability of information online by a few orders of magnitude.

nomel 4y ago
> Many people are saying that ChatGPT is "going to get big and change the world" I see many people saying that AI, like ChatGPT, is going to be big and change the world. ChatGPT and StableDiffusion are the first public exposures to models, looking like a crazy step function in capability. I believe they're indicators that change is coming, but the rate of change is probably a little off for most.