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I understand that AI is especially academic right now, but I'm not sure OP appreciates just how impenetrable everything else was to the masses before him. Nothi

by causal 3y ago

I understand that AI is especially academic right now, but I'm not sure OP appreciates just how impenetrable everything else was to the masses before him. Nothing about DOS or SMTP have ever felt accessible to the vast majority of people before now. If anything this should spark some empathy. Furthermore, jump on some Discord groups and subreddits like /r/localllama or /r/stablediffusion you will see a vibrant AI hacker community that is alive and well, working very hard to build tools for the masses. Don't resign yourself just because you have not mastered this new thing by default, regardless of whether that's the world-wide-web in the 90's or tensors in the 20's.

chankstein38 3y ago
Your whole comment is full of really well put assertions and your points about llama and SD are what my thoughts were the whole time I was reading this blog post. BUT >Don't resign yourself just because you have not mastered this new thing by default, regardless of whether that's the world-wide-web in the 90's or tensors in the 20's. Might be my favorite part of what you said. It's so true and I meet so many people who are used to things just being something they understand so they approach a more complex topic they don't have context on and start "feeling stupid" without realizing how vast the world is. All in all, well said!
thenoblesunfish 3y ago
I don't think that's quite it. I think OP could understand the math quicker then they think, but would still feel the same, because the whole point of AI is to do the understanding for you. You could of course argue that computers think for you, but you can always break things down and understand what it's doing and then marvel at doing that thing super fast and with massive parallelism. With AI there is less of that feeling, because the "guts" are learned, not built.
insane_dreamer 3y ago
> vibrant AI hacker community that is alive and well, working very hard to build tools for the masses it's not the tools that are the obstacles; it's the training data and training resources (why do you think OpenAI had to sell itself to Microsoft?)

by causal 3y ago

chankstein38 3y ago

Your whole comment is full of really well put assertions and your points about llama and SD are what my thoughts were the whole time I was reading this blog post. BUT >Don't resign yourself just because you have not mastered this new thing by default, regardless of whether that's the world-wide-web in the 90's or tensors in the 20's. Might be my favorite part of what you said. It's so true and I meet so many people who are used to things just being something they understand so they approach a more complex topic they don't have context on and start "feeling stupid" without realizing how vast the world is. All in all, well said!

thenoblesunfish 3y ago

I don't think that's quite it. I think OP could understand the math quicker then they think, but would still feel the same, because the whole point of AI is to do the understanding for you. You could of course argue that computers think for you, but you can always break things down and understand what it's doing and then marvel at doing that thing super fast and with massive parallelism. With AI there is less of that feeling, because the "guts" are learned, not built.

insane_dreamer 3y ago

> vibrant AI hacker community that is alive and well, working very hard to build tools for the masses it's not the tools that are the obstacles; it's the training data and training resources (why do you think OpenAI had to sell itself to Microsoft?)