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It's not like blockchain. Blockchain legitimately made things slower and less useful for dubious benefits. AI is more like the early web. There is definite val

It's not like blockchain. Blockchain legitimately made things slower and less useful for dubious benefits. AI is more like the early web. There is definite value that people can see, but no one really knows how to monetize beyond the incredibly obvious 'sell people access to it', so everyone is throwing spaghetti at the wall waiting for it to stick. When someone gets it to stick, there will be a giant amount of money coming at them, but until then there will be a ton of people with sauce all over their faces looking like idiots.

llbbdd 1y ago
Upvoted to save you from the negatives because I too am tired of seeing the comparison to blockchain. I'm not sure where it even comes from other than just being another recent hype train people remember, but blockchain settled into a relatively tiny niche. The most basic deployment of LLMs / AI by comparison is instantly, obviously more useful than that.
sleepybrett 1y ago
As soon as it starts returning to me factual, confirm-able answers consistently. Then I'll use it. I just had to fix something a co-worker fucked up by asking ai how to do it. The responses are so confidently wrong it's like watching Kash Patel tell me that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
- cheema33 1y ago
  > As soon as it starts returning to me factual, confirm-able answers consistently. Then I'll use it. Humans don't behave this way. Yet, we still employ humans. AI is unreliable. We all agree. But that does not make it useless.
  - lmm 1y ago
    Ok, how about: Once AI is less overconfident than a median teammate, it may be worth something. It's not there yet.
    - Eisenstein 1y ago
      I agree. Overconfidence and sycophancy is the real problem. This should be the focus of development energy. The models are already capable; now they need to be reliable.
  - 1718627440 1y ago
    That's why we introduced computers. If they aren't reliable anymore we can stop using them.

llbbdd 1y ago

Upvoted to save you from the negatives because I too am tired of seeing the comparison to blockchain. I'm not sure where it even comes from other than just being another recent hype train people remember, but blockchain settled into a relatively tiny niche. The most basic deployment of LLMs / AI by comparison is instantly, obviously more useful than that.

sleepybrett 1y ago

As soon as it starts returning to me factual, confirm-able answers consistently. Then I'll use it. I just had to fix something a co-worker fucked up by asking ai how to do it. The responses are so confidently wrong it's like watching Kash Patel tell me that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

cheema33 1y ago
> As soon as it starts returning to me factual, confirm-able answers consistently. Then I'll use it. Humans don't behave this way. Yet, we still employ humans. AI is unreliable. We all agree. But that does not make it useless.
- lmm 1y ago
  Ok, how about: Once AI is less overconfident than a median teammate, it may be worth something. It's not there yet.
  - Eisenstein 1y ago
    I agree. Overconfidence and sycophancy is the real problem. This should be the focus of development energy. The models are already capable; now they need to be reliable.
- 1718627440 1y ago
  That's why we introduced computers. If they aren't reliable anymore we can stop using them.