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This article paints an overly negative picture. It's fairly obvious that AI is only going to improve from where it's at today, and the hyperbolic language about
by suby 3y ago
This article paints an overly negative picture. It's fairly obvious that AI is only going to improve from where it's at today, and the hyperbolic language about no one caring makes me less inclined to believe that the author is attempting to paint an honest picture. I derive immense value out of Gpt4 as an aid for coding, a search engine replacement that accepts open ended questions, a writing aid, etc. I know someone who has poor writing skills and used Gpt4 to improve their resume / cover letters.
He links to an article stating that ChatGpt use is down 10% in June as the source for the doom and gloom, but this is orthogonal to whether usage is low. The drop likely was due to school ending for the summer.
We're talking about an app that was the fastest growing app in human history prior to Threads launching. Decreased usage numbers implies that not everyone is deriving value from it, but there are a lot of people who are, it really depends on what your job is and your personality type probably plays a role too. There's also probably a backlash because people overstated what it could do, but what it can do is still extremely useful. I think stating AI is a fad ignores all of this, and again, ignores the massive increase in AI capabilities that we're going to see over the coming years.
- edgyquant 3y agoIt’s suffering from extreme overhype pushed by OpenAI. They wanted people to think the human-led world was over and they were first to market on creating the new overlords. This soured them on a lot of tech people and ensured whatever they built could never live up. Still a great product and I use a chatbot everyday for work, but it’s just that a chatbot.
- intrasight 3y ago> extreme overhype It's hard to gauge hype except retrospectively. We will know in 4-6 years if it was over hyped.
- vinyl7 3y agoI knew it was overhyped the minute it was all over social media for a couple of months and people started asking what I thought about it.
- JohnFen 3y agoI don't know. Historically, it seems pretty easy to spot extreme overhype in the moment, without the need for years of hindsight. The most obvious sign that this was excessively overhyped was when people were seriously arguing about whether AGI is right around the corner.
- Grimblewald 3y agoAbsolutely, combine this with things like AI that describe videos? We haven't even begun to milk what these LLM can offer. From mass surveillance to easing every day burdens anything that handles messy information has potential for improvement and its a long time before all the possible improvements have been implemented.