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Or, just maybe, AGI is a mirage with the bulk of its current utility as a marketing tool for much more realistic, if ultimately mundane, applications. OpenAI, o
by mistymountains 3y ago
Or, just maybe, AGI is a mirage with the bulk of its current utility as a marketing tool for much more realistic, if ultimately mundane, applications. OpenAI, of course, knows this.
- sdwr 3y agoWhether it's real or illusory, I feel like they turned the bitrate down significantly since launch. I'm not getting as many smart electrons per question as I used to.
- rymiel 3y agoThis is measurably true. They claim they don't know why because "they haven't changed anything" but it is true at the very least
- persolb 3y agoI think at least some of this is expectation setting. I'd been saving my prompts from the beginning. In some cases I saved the results. On the API: My prompts are getting 'harder' and expecting more. My old prompts still work just fine still. On the website: Copy pasting the same old prompts still work... but the 'flavor' of the text that pops out definitely feels worse. I haven't seen any actual data showing a degredation.
- gfodor 3y agoWhy are so many HN commenters like this
- bsdpufferfish 3y agoskeptical about AGI?
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- gfodor 3y agono, presuming that other people working on things are both cynical and deceptive; it's projection, imo.
- alexsereno 3y agoPessimism is more infective than optimism. It’s also easier to be a naysayer, since most new ventures do failed you can point and say you were right regardless of merit.
- whoIsYou 3y agomaybe they need some sort of profit center to keep themselves funded to reach their goals
- NemoNobody 3y agoAGI will very likely develop atop the mundane applications that AI will be utilized for at the onset - if it ever develops. Regardless, mirage or not - as a mundane tool with realistic application this is still revolutionary