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My biggest gripe with the current hype is the lack of genuine curiosity. Maybe it’s the circles I'm in, maybe it’s only HackerNews, but I feel that the biggest
by MrGilbert 4y ago
My biggest gripe with the current hype is the lack of genuine curiosity.
Maybe it’s the circles I'm in, maybe it’s only HackerNews, but I feel that the biggest question for many people isn’t "How does it work, and how can we make it work better?", but rather:
"How to get rich quick?"
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- mattrighetti 4y agoOr "This will make you obsolete"
- MrGilbert 4y agoMy personal favorite.
- dragonwriter 4y agoIts a discussion forum tied to a tech industry startup accelerator, so, if it relates to tech and a possible connection to new profit opportunities can be drawn, you’ll get that. Even so, there's plenty of “how does it work and how technically can we do more with it” stuff here, HN’s been one of the densest places for that with generative AI despite the make-money focus thay often creeps in. Sometimes, the two even overlap.
- precompute 4y ago"AI" isn't really smart at all right now. It is en route to achieving feature parity with the manual tagging efforts taken for it. There is no guarantee that it will ever transcend it. The recent "plugins" announcement and other tools for the same (langchain) just enable removing friction from current UIs, nothing more. It is indeed big for people that could never use the UIs, but it does nothing for the long tail, where data for training just does not exist. Wake me up when "AI" parses Nietzsche, Hegel or even Lewis' apologia without any philosophical data to train on. We simply never did figure out the "algorithm". Instead the big orgs (aka to governments) decided to throw all the surveillance data into a large model and called it a day. It's insanely expensive to run, and it doesn't scale. But boy does it give results right now, nevermind the future.