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Capitalism, hype and irrationality are a good combination for a bubble. I remember this famous AI professor Andrew Ng in an online lecture, talking about his "

by jokoon 3y ago

Capitalism, hype and irrationality are a good combination for a bubble. I remember this famous AI professor Andrew Ng in an online lecture, talking about his "AI dream" and his enthusiasm to reach general intelligence. Even John Carmack boarded that ship, and I don't see he is going to deliver, and honestly I don't really trust him to deliver some real skepticism about AI if he doesn't deliver something good. We really need more skeptical professors and experts to talk more on how AI is not as great as it seems. The inventor of SIRI did a great talk about this. Apparently people seems to confuse and conflate "making quality deepfakes" and "AI is useful". It's weird when I am a developer, and I really want LESS technology.

PKop 3y ago
>"making quality deepfakes" and "AI is useful" Excellent point, as the broad output of most of this so far is just more fake garbage that clutters everything up with generated spam (except to be fair the code tools like copilot). Reminds me of 3D printing, seemingly under-delivering on the massive hype in terms of "what can it actually produce". Recent VR hype feels the same in relation to expectations and cost of the products vs usefulness.
humansareok1 3y ago
SIRI? SIRI is your go to example? Have you even been awake at all since 2020? IF you really can't see any utility for current gen GenAI beyond deepfakes there's really no hope for you.
anon291 3y ago
AI is already useful. You must be living under a rock if you can't see it. I'm a luddite in general, but just the text embeddings and retrieval stuff is worth a goldmine. Moreover, the natural language generation capability is yet another "obvious" example of utility. Since when has a computer even been able to produce even moderately natural language from structured data. Even ignoring 'general AI' (whatever that is... no one even knows what that means), that's already enough utility. Just the searching ability makes it easily more valuable than Google and Bing in their original incarnations.

by jokoon 3y ago

PKop 3y ago

>"making quality deepfakes" and "AI is useful" Excellent point, as the broad output of most of this so far is just more fake garbage that clutters everything up with generated spam (except to be fair the code tools like copilot). Reminds me of 3D printing, seemingly under-delivering on the massive hype in terms of "what can it actually produce". Recent VR hype feels the same in relation to expectations and cost of the products vs usefulness.

humansareok1 3y ago

SIRI? SIRI is your go to example? Have you even been awake at all since 2020? IF you really can't see any utility for current gen GenAI beyond deepfakes there's really no hope for you.

anon291 3y ago

AI is already useful. You must be living under a rock if you can't see it. I'm a luddite in general, but just the text embeddings and retrieval stuff is worth a goldmine. Moreover, the natural language generation capability is yet another "obvious" example of utility. Since when has a computer even been able to produce even moderately natural language from structured data. Even ignoring 'general AI' (whatever that is... no one even knows what that means), that's already enough utility. Just the searching ability makes it easily more valuable than Google and Bing in their original incarnations.