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Good. It's decent for summarizing and giving me bullet points and explaining things like I'm 5, makes it easy to code things that I don't want to code or spend

Good. It's decent for summarizing and giving me bullet points and explaining things like I'm 5, makes it easy to code things that I don't want to code or spend time figuring out how to do with new languages, other than that, I see no real world applications outside of listening to burger king orders and putting them on a screen for people to make them. Simple support requests, and of course making buzzword-esque documents that you can feed in to a deck-maker for presentations and stuff. All in all, it helps assist us in new ways. Had somebody take a picture of a car part that had no markings and it identified it, found the maker/manufacturer/SKU and gave all the details etc. That stuff is useful. But now we're looking at in-authentic stuff. Artists, writers being plagiarized, job cuts (for said marketing/pitches, BS presentations to downsize teams). It's not just losing its hype, its losing any hype in building humanity for the better. It's just more buzzwords, more 'glamour' more 'pop' shoved in our faces. The layoffs aren't looking pretty. Works well to help us code though. Viva, sysadmins unite.

parpfish 2y ago
Im really hoping that when this hype cycle ends and the next AI winter starts that all the generative stuff gets culled but we still see good work and tech using all the other advances (that would be described as “mere” deep learning). Document embedding from transformers are great and fit into existing search paradigms. Computer vision and image segmentation is at a level I thought impossible 10 years ago. Text to speech that sounds natural? I might actually use Siri and Alexa! (Ok, that one might be considered “generative”)
- janalsncm 2y ago
  The research never ended. AI money was flooding in, but mostly going directly to Nvidia. If that cash flow turns off there will still be research happening because it was mostly unaffected in the first place.
kombookcha 2y ago
The hype dying off will be good for literally everybody except the investors. It'll mean fewer people trying to jam it into products as feature bloat where it has no business being, or trying to make it do tasks that it's unsuited for. The sooner people start to find it boring, the sooner we can stop wasting time on all the hot air and just use the bits that work.

parpfish 2y ago

Im really hoping that when this hype cycle ends and the next AI winter starts that all the generative stuff gets culled but we still see good work and tech using all the other advances (that would be described as “mere” deep learning). Document embedding from transformers are great and fit into existing search paradigms. Computer vision and image segmentation is at a level I thought impossible 10 years ago. Text to speech that sounds natural? I might actually use Siri and Alexa! (Ok, that one might be considered “generative”)

janalsncm 2y ago
The research never ended. AI money was flooding in, but mostly going directly to Nvidia. If that cash flow turns off there will still be research happening because it was mostly unaffected in the first place.

kombookcha 2y ago

The hype dying off will be good for literally everybody except the investors. It'll mean fewer people trying to jam it into products as feature bloat where it has no business being, or trying to make it do tasks that it's unsuited for. The sooner people start to find it boring, the sooner we can stop wasting time on all the hot air and just use the bits that work.