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It's deeply saddening to see how fixated people are on the here-and-now, while ignoring the terrifying rate of progress, and its wide-ranging implications. We'
by mrshadowgoose 2y ago
It's deeply saddening to see how fixated people are on the here-and-now, while ignoring the terrifying rate of progress, and its wide-ranging implications.
We've gone from people screeching "deep learning has hit its limits" in 2021 to models today that are able to reason within limited, but economically relevant contexts. And yet despite this, the same type of screeching continues.
- martindbp 2y agoIt's the same kind of people who claimed human flight would not be possible for 10,000 years in 1902. I just can't understand how narrow your mind has to be in order to be this skeptic.
- sealeck 2y agoOr the same kind of people who claimed Theranos was a scam, or that AI in the 70s wasn't about to produce Terminator within a few years, or that the .com bubble was in fact a bubble...
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoMaybe some of us aren’t actually impressed with the “progress” since 2022? Doing well at random benchmarks hasn’t noticeably improved capability in use for work. Does that mean it will never improve? Of course not. But don’t act like everyone else is some kind of moron.
- mrshadowgoose 2y ago> Maybe some of us aren’t actually impressed with the “progress” since 2022? Doing well at random benchmarks hasn’t noticeably improved capability in use for work. Then perhaps you should strive to explore outside of the realm of benchmarks. I've been lucky in that I've seen legitimate value-adding uses in my workplace that simply were not possible pre-2022. > But don’t act like everyone else is some kind of moron. Not everyone - just the ones that ignore a trend of continued progress towards a goal, claim we can't achieve the goal, yet offer no meaningful explanation as to why we can't get there.