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> I can list so many things that were hyped up the same way 10 years ago that still aren’t revolutionising the world today. The problem with it is that it is b
by thefz 3y ago
> I can list so many things that were hyped up the same way 10 years ago that still aren’t revolutionising the world today.
The problem with it is that it is being marketed as the do-all productivity enhancer. It is not. There are some fields in which it excels, but are all rather very specific (think summarizing a long document).
- godelski 3y agoI've a few times given an analogy on her about how it's like these companies are selling really delicious chocolate and then just add shit on top of it saying its a bonus. I don't get the hype, especially when there's something quite useful in there. Why is everyone overselling everything? Not by a little, but by a lot? I feel like it's good for short term rewards but terrible for long term.
- Gigachad 3y agoI feel like even in that specific task, it's only really good when you care more about processing huge amounts of data over accuracy. I wouldn't trust it to summarize a single PDF research paper, but it would be fine as a search engine looking over millions of documents, or trying to summarize the common points in thousands of user feedbacks. Something like "Find me documents that talk about achieving x using y process". If it finds a few irrelevant ones or misses some, its ok and still provided value by searching far more things than you ever could manually.