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>The AI industry needs to show that it's useful, not that it's innovative. People won't come if you just build stuff. Outside of the tech industry, I have found
by 123yawaworht456 2y ago
>The AI industry needs to show that it's useful, not that it's innovative. People won't come if you just build stuff. Outside of the tech industry, I have found people have literally no interest or just disdain for this.
you could've said the same thing about computers, back when they were room-sized machines full of vacuum tubes, capable of rudimentary calculations and not much else. would you imagine that less than a century later, we would have devices with more computing power than a million of those in our pockets?
when AI industry stops obsessing over lobotomizing their models into being useless for anything except basic bitch customer support, content moderation and mediocre stack overflow substitute, there will be tons and tons of applications for generative AI. my own industry - gamedev - is within less than a decade from dialogue and audio being generated on the fly, with human writers doing maybe 10% of the work and voice actors just providing a few samples. of course, that will not happen until LLMs are allowed to produce anything but soulless garbage that strictly adheres to FAGMAN sensibilities.
- cjk2 2y agoNot really. Your point is hyperbole. Personal computing was a paradigm shift. This is a relatively minor change in a small subset of it.
- 123yawaworht456 2y agoit was a paradigm shift, yes, but you would never guess that if you were looking at ENIAC in the 40's.
- cjk2 2y agoI'm wearing Dick Tracy's watch so the ideas were already out there... The point is that idea was actually useful!
- flohofwoe 2y agoIt's not like "AI" is anything new though, it's been around since the 1950's and we've been through several AI winters since then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter There's no reason to believe that this time it'll be different.
- rsynnott 2y ago> you could've said the same thing about computers, back when they were room-sized machines full of vacuum tubes, capable of rudimentary calculations and not much else Electronic computers were seen as useful right from the start; they clearly fulfilled an existing need. No-one was handing out VC money to make computers of possible speculative future interest in the 1940s.
- aurareturn 2y agoI must be the only one on HN who finds GPT4/GPT4o extremely useful and use it multiple times/day for different things. I'm aware of its limitations and work around its limitations. For example, I'm not going to blindly push the code it gives me without checking it carefully and testing it. I'm not going to completely trust the legal document that it generates for me but I will use it for the first draft and ask it questions. ChatGPT is excellent for tasks that are on the low end of the risk spectrum but are tedeous.
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