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> first one has taken a graduate level stat course and/or ML course, and may have work experience in machine learning/data science I think it's just a few peop

> first one has taken a graduate level stat course and/or ML course, and may have work experience in machine learning/data science I think it's just a few people getting salty because they understand "how it works" but don't understand "why is getting popular". So they start to shout from their ivory tower without realising the tectonic shift under way. Sort of, you know how to build a stupid mobile video/photo app, but fail to make it popular like facebook, instagram, tiktok, etc. The tech used is certainly not transformative on the surface, but the implications of mass adoption and impact at a societal level are huge. I for one I'm excited about its usefulness and how this is going to speed up the AI race. The genie is out of the bottle.

Aperocky 4y ago
I'm also very excited about how useful it is, after years of mostly academic papers and poor industrial attempt to utilize it, there's finally something that truly showed the power of the LLM model to the masses. It's the iPhone 4 of language models. But iPhone 4 isn't fusion energy. It's incredibly useful and a tectonic shift in the cellphone industry, but it's not producing energy. The analogy might sound completely insane, but that's how different machine learning of today and general intelligence is. This will replace humans in certain jobs - just like McDonald's touch order machines and 100000 other times when a machine of either digital or mechanical contraption replaces humans in history. This is not however the beginning of singularity where the AI gets a mind of its own and start a symbiotic or adversarial relationship with human civilization, this isn't even a step in that direction, this is closer to the internet or wikipedia than that.
akkad33 4y ago
Well explained. The analogy is on point
johnea 4y ago
Excellent point about "why its getting popular". It's getting popular because a bunch Vulture VC's see a huge oppotunitiy to pump and dump. They're gonna make billions! Who gives a shit if it'll really solve any problems, or make real revenue. It's immediate primary value is in it's ability to create stock value inflation. Because shareholder value is really the meaning of life, right?

Aperocky 4y ago

I'm also very excited about how useful it is, after years of mostly academic papers and poor industrial attempt to utilize it, there's finally something that truly showed the power of the LLM model to the masses. It's the iPhone 4 of language models. But iPhone 4 isn't fusion energy. It's incredibly useful and a tectonic shift in the cellphone industry, but it's not producing energy. The analogy might sound completely insane, but that's how different machine learning of today and general intelligence is. This will replace humans in certain jobs - just like McDonald's touch order machines and 100000 other times when a machine of either digital or mechanical contraption replaces humans in history. This is not however the beginning of singularity where the AI gets a mind of its own and start a symbiotic or adversarial relationship with human civilization, this isn't even a step in that direction, this is closer to the internet or wikipedia than that.

akkad33 4y ago

Well explained. The analogy is on point

johnea 4y ago

Excellent point about "why its getting popular". It's getting popular because a bunch Vulture VC's see a huge oppotunitiy to pump and dump. They're gonna make billions! Who gives a shit if it'll really solve any problems, or make real revenue. It's immediate primary value is in it's ability to create stock value inflation. Because shareholder value is really the meaning of life, right?