Yeah the hucksters are selling hard. I don’t buy their end vision is as easy as they claim it is. But I also don’t deny that at least in Musk there’s been a his

Yeah the hucksters are selling hard. I don’t buy their end vision is as easy as they claim it is. But I also don’t deny that at least in Musk there’s been a history of doing amazing things about 5 years later than he claimed he would. I don’t like the man but I am amazed at how he took our inability to dream any more and turned it on its head. You can verify it yourself, but don’t expect the out of the tin stuff with a web UI and a iPhone app to be where the power lies. Those are demo ware. They’re literal toys. The current state of the art use requires a lot of trial and error, struggling with shitty abstractions, lack of knowledge or draw on, and a lot of fumbling with a brand new technique let alone technology. It also requires understanding how generative AI works, loss functions, a fair amount of intuitively understood math, and some really creative ideas. It’s all more or less open source or where it’s not the per api fees are reasonable and there are cloud services you can use. It’s all possible it’s just not -easy- to verify. And - since I’ve done it myself and seen its power first hand in what I do I actually don’t have a lot of drive to convince others. Everyone will see sooner or later as the abstractions and the techniques mature. As such I don’t feel compelled to build a body of evidence in the least. Don’t believe me - ok! Don’t want to really dig in and verify things at the cutting edge of work being done because it’s a lot of work? Ok! But likewise, asserting the contrary without having done that work is just as fallacious, and doesn’t change my first hand experiences in the least.