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AI has been gradually improving for decades, but this is the year we finally noticed. The big thing was huge progress in natural language understanding. 2023 w
by api 3y ago
AI has been gradually improving for decades, but this is the year we finally noticed.
The big thing was huge progress in natural language understanding. 2023 was the year the Turing test was smashed.
Seeing computers win games, drive cars, optimize systems, even design things wasn’t as subjectively impressive to most of us as being able to talk to them. This was the year we first saw AI that could sort of communicate with us the way we can with each other.
- UrineSqueegee 3y agonot only talk to them, but ask them to perform tasks, sometimes obscure and they do it.
- Nullabillity 3y agoPeople were amazed by ELIZA back in '67. That doesn't mean that it did anything useful...
- steveoscaro 3y agoWhat’s your point? Because I can’t imagine it’s to suggest that GPT4 doesn’t do anything useful.
- bamboozled 3y agoTheir point is, we’ve been here before.
- stavros 3y agoIn the way a Lamborghini and an oxcart are both "here".
- steveoscaro 3y agoNot really
- Nullabillity 3y agoThe usual "use cases" mentioned usually seem to boil down to: - Acting as a lossy text decompressor (harmful) - Acting as a lossy text compressor (mostly trying and failing to undo the damage from above) - Acting as an outright bullshit generator (harmful) - Acting as a poor substitute for a search engine with a propensity for trying to bullshit you (harmful) - Acting as a poor substitute for a parser (which, even if it worked would be dumb because it doesn't understand structured output, so now you have two parsing problems) - Generating broken and/or extremely poorly factored code (harmful) - Hiding plagiarism (harmful) GPT (and the AI hype in general) is the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Look at the effort that Google wasted on Duplex instead of OpenTable.
- steveoscaro 3y agoThat's all very knowledgable-sounding, but in reality, lots of people are using GPT every day for legitimately helpful and productive things.
- Nullabillity 3y agoAre you going to bring any counterexamples or keep assuming that someone… somewhere… must surely have found an actual use case for this garbage?
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- dorkwood 3y agoI don't think the Turing test has successfully been passed, has it? I believe even Ray Kurzweil still predicts 2029, despite this year's advancements.
- Nevermark 3y agoAnyone testing GPT4, without having heard of it or other recent progress, would be flabbergasted to find out it wasn’t human. One problem with the Turing Test we might have predicted: if people have context on how models have improved, they narrow their expectations to match. But I suppose the Strong Turing Test is when a model is so much smarter than us, that it can convincingly hide its differences and superiority, even when we have good reason to suspect it’s an AI.