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Right, I think even including recent development AI is incredibly over-hyped, largely driven by the technology being somewhat new and difficult to reason about
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
Right, I think even including recent development AI is incredibly over-hyped, largely driven by the technology being somewhat new and difficult to reason about and its limitations thus more than a bit nebulous.
Several technology bubbles have formed before under these exact circumstances. But this is like a whole new level of gullibility. Most of the reasoning seems to be of the line
1. LLMs have made impressive progress
2. basically https://xkcd.com/605/ https://xkcd.com/605/
3. SOCIETY SHATTERING IMPACT!!!
Especially noteworthy is that this is a point we've been at before with artificial intelligence in particular. This isn't even the second time, but at least the third wave of AI hype.
Don't get me wrong, I can totally see why OpenAI is pitching a future where basically all of society operates as a SaaS client to their API, what I don't get is why someone who isn't an OpenAI shareholder would guzzle that particular kool aid.