This article is off the rails in a way. Yeah we all know about how LLMs hallucinate and how that’s an impossible hurdle to get over (currently). But AI at its

This article is off the rails in a way. Yeah we all know about how LLMs hallucinate and how that’s an impossible hurdle to get over (currently). But AI at its current level, pre ChatGPT was in itself an even MORE off the rails claim then anything in this article. Like what AI can do today is unthinkable to the point where you can be sent to the mental ward of a hospital if you made a claim for predicting what AI can do currently. The Turing test was leap frogged and everybody just complains about AI is garbage and then they moved the goal posts. It’s not that the claims are wildly overblown. It’s only overblown a little and not by an overly bullshit amount. It’s that the hype is pervasive. Like we see this hype everywhere and we are riding along with it. AI has infiltrated our lives so deeply that we are just no longer impressed so we get all kinds of people saying AI is overblown when really it’s not that overblown at all. AI agents that code for us? We are 50 percent of the way there. It’s the last 50 percent that’s brutally hard to make happen but it’s not completely out of this world for a company to try to jump that gap in a year. We’ve made incremental progress. If Elon invented a space faring vehicle that had a light speed drive and was available for anyone to purchase and fly for 5$ then I guarantee you hype will blow up to the point where people get sick of it just like AI. People will be talking about how space travel and light speed drives are overblown. I’m not impressed that it still takes 4 light years to get to Alpha Centauri are you kidding me?