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You are 100% correct about AI today, however, I feel people are way too fast at making a final assessment of what AI can and cannot do as if it was set in stone
by Drakim 3y ago
You are 100% correct about AI today, however, I feel people are way too fast at making a final assessment of what AI can and cannot do as if it was set in stone. People seem so sure that the problems AI are having now are just intrinsic and just won't be overcome.
But think about what computers were like when they first hit the market. What about the first year of public internet? Or the first generation of cellphones. These technologies also had major issues and shortcomings that would, if not improved, severely limit their usefulness.
Nobody knows what AI will be like in 5 to 10 years with the burst of investment and focus that this past year has ensured.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> But think about what computers were like when they first hit the market. What about the first year of public internet? Or the first generation of cellphones. These technologies also had major issues and shortcomings that would, if not improved, severely limit their usefulness. The question is whether AI's limitations are more like too I/O limited, too slow, not enough storage, or more like fundamental things like GIGO and (virtually) all software having bugs and people having to handle that.
- kiba 3y agoWe know what the internet has developed so far, and it's not all positive. We don't know what and how LLM will impact the future.
- Drakim 3y agoYou aren't wrong, but we can't deny that internet changed the world, changed industries, and changed society. It's not all positive, but it's become a fundamental building block of mankind at this point.
- drewcoo 3y ago> We know what the internet has developed so far, and it's not all positive. A backup communication system in case the Soviets took out the phone system? What's non-positive about that?
- rchaud 3y ago> You are 100% correct about AI today, however, I feel people are way too fast at making a final assessment of what AI can and cannot do as if it was set in stone. OpenAI is valued at $100b or something and given the hype I would have thought that it would have solved basic knowledge economy things like spreadsheet analysis, something that millions of well-compensated people are currently employed to do. Why is there no "AI Excel" that can take a 1GB CSV and answer questions that are one step more complex than Pivot Tables? As a business user, I don't care about AI that pretends to 'talk' like a human and 'draws' pictures. I need it to be able to do the work of a securities analyst.
- metabro 3y ago> Why is there no "AI Excel" that can take a 1GB CSV and answer questions that are one step more complex than Pivot Tables? Not sure what file size limit is but chatgpt can do this.
- ukuina 3y agoThe code interpreter probably has access to sqlite for this purpose, as well.
- Drakim 3y agoYou can't actually use startup investment numbers as a metric anymore because just like the stock market it's just become a avenue for financial gambling with little regard for the underlying industry.