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From the title I thought the angle would be that they are beholden to the giant corporations or possibly governments that can afford their hundreds of millions
by ftxbro 3y ago
From the title I thought the angle would be that they are beholden to the giant corporations or possibly governments that can afford their hundreds of millions dollar pretraining costs and inference data centers, but no. The angle is more like the subtitle "Robots never took your job, and neither will chatbots." where they are just saying that large language models are an empty hype and won't have real impact. For example they quote "As the AI expert Gary Marcus has explained, these hallucinations are not a minor bug."
EDIT: I would have agreed with some form of the hypothetical first angle, but I think that the article's actual take is silly.
- alpaca128 3y agoThat would be true if curating and tweaking AI output was as time consuming as creating the content yourself, or if it took exactly the same level of skill. There is a large gap between "AI can't do any part of my job" and "AI can realiably automate my entire job", and if an AI model makes a couple more mistakes but costs a hundredth of your salary the hallucinations won't help that AI expert.