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Working in tech for over 30 years. This is the first time when I don't see proposed technology as a valuable tool. Especially LLM's. Vastly overhyped, driven b
by nbzso 2y ago
Working in tech for over 30 years. This is the first time when I don't see proposed technology as a valuable tool. Especially LLM's.
Vastly overhyped, driven by pure greed and speculative narratives, limited implementation and high energy cost.
Non-transparent. Errors marketed as a hallucination.
- simonw 2y agoHow much time have you spent figuring out how to use them? Ethan Mollick estimates it takes ten hours of exposure to “frontier models” (aka OpenAI GPT-4, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google Gemini 1.5 Pro) before they really start to click in terms of what they’re useful for.
- jes5199 2y agothis is exactly what i said about the iphone
- nbzso 2y agoSorry, there is no parallel between technology with direct implication and dreams from VC's and investors with low level of tech literacy.
- Thrymr 2y agoFor me, that moment was cryptocurrency. "Vastly overhyped, driven by pure greed and speculative narratives, limited implementation and high energy cost." - all applied. I couldn't understand why so many people thought it was the future. I actually see LLMs a little more positively - mildly interesting, certainly intriguing language mimics, but enormously expensive and overhyped. Are they useful? Maybe, but not to the degree that everything is focused on them now.