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I think the ultimate problem with AI is its overvalued as a technology in general. Is this "amazing level of comprehension" really that necessary given the amou

by boh 4y ago

I think the ultimate problem with AI is its overvalued as a technology in general. Is this "amazing level of comprehension" really that necessary given the amount of time/money/effort devoted to it? What's become clear with this technology that's been inaccurately labeled as "AI" is that it doesn't produce economically relevant results. It's a net expense anyway you slice it. It's like seeing a magician perform an amazing trick. It's both amazing and entirely irrelevant at the same time. The "potential" of the technology is pure marketing at this point.

kneebonian 4y ago
It seems to me it is really good at writing. I would think it could replace the profession of techincal writing for the most part, it could help you write emails, (bring back clippy MS you cowards), it could be used as a frontend to an FAQ/self service help type system.
- boh 4y ago
  Have you read the article? You'd have to have 100% faith in the tech to allow it to side-step an actual person. Unless your site is purely a click-farm, you're still probably hiring someone to check it--so what's the point of having it?
pixl97 4y ago
I mean, I take if I stuck you back in 1900 you'd say the same about flying. "Look at all this wasted effort for almost nothing". And then pretty quickly the world rapidly changed and in around 50 years we were sending things to space. Intelligence isn't just one thing, really I would say its the emergent behavior of a bunch of different layers working together. The LLM being just one layer. As time goes on and we add more layers to it the usefulness of the product will increase. At least from a selfish perspective of a corporation, whoever can create one of these intelligences may have the ability to free themselves of massive amounts of payroll by using the AI to replace people. The potential of AI should not be thought of any differently than the potential of people. You are not magic, just complicated.
- boh 4y ago
  I don't get the point of comparing apples to make a point about oranges. Flying isn't AI. Nor is "progress" a permanent state. If you want to stay in the flying comparison: in 2000 you can fly from NY to Paris in 3 hours on a Concord, something no longer possible in 2023. Why? Because economics made it unfeasible to maintain. Silicon Valley has made enough promises using "emergent" behavior and other heuristics to justify poor investments. Unfortunately it's taken out too many withdrawals from its bank of credibility and there'a not enough to cloud their exit schemes in hopes and dreams.
  - pixl97 4y ago
    And yet every day we still fly faster and farther than the objects designed by evolution. And much like evolution of creatures go extinct. Promises are always meaningless, progress is in the results, and recently LLMs have been giving us results. You can choose to invest or not invest, but in an environment where there is still a lot of investment money around I don't see work on this stopping any time soon.

by boh 4y ago

kneebonian 4y ago

It seems to me it is really good at writing. I would think it could replace the profession of techincal writing for the most part, it could help you write emails, (bring back clippy MS you cowards), it could be used as a frontend to an FAQ/self service help type system.

boh 4y ago
Have you read the article? You'd have to have 100% faith in the tech to allow it to side-step an actual person. Unless your site is purely a click-farm, you're still probably hiring someone to check it--so what's the point of having it?

pixl97 4y ago

I mean, I take if I stuck you back in 1900 you'd say the same about flying. "Look at all this wasted effort for almost nothing". And then pretty quickly the world rapidly changed and in around 50 years we were sending things to space. Intelligence isn't just one thing, really I would say its the emergent behavior of a bunch of different layers working together. The LLM being just one layer. As time goes on and we add more layers to it the usefulness of the product will increase. At least from a selfish perspective of a corporation, whoever can create one of these intelligences may have the ability to free themselves of massive amounts of payroll by using the AI to replace people. The potential of AI should not be thought of any differently than the potential of people. You are not magic, just complicated.

boh 4y ago
I don't get the point of comparing apples to make a point about oranges. Flying isn't AI. Nor is "progress" a permanent state. If you want to stay in the flying comparison: in 2000 you can fly from NY to Paris in 3 hours on a Concord, something no longer possible in 2023. Why? Because economics made it unfeasible to maintain. Silicon Valley has made enough promises using "emergent" behavior and other heuristics to justify poor investments. Unfortunately it's taken out too many withdrawals from its bank of credibility and there'a not enough to cloud their exit schemes in hopes and dreams.
- pixl97 4y ago
  And yet every day we still fly faster and farther than the objects designed by evolution. And much like evolution of creatures go extinct. Promises are always meaningless, progress is in the results, and recently LLMs have been giving us results. You can choose to invest or not invest, but in an environment where there is still a lot of investment money around I don't see work on this stopping any time soon.