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There are people on here who are negative about AI as well. I'm not negative about AI within the things it's currently useful for and the constraints of what L

There are people on here who are negative about AI as well. I'm not negative about AI within the things it's currently useful for and the constraints of what LLM's can help with. I'm pretty negative about the massive over-hyping of AI with wild assertions and completely underwhelmed by the current implementations of it - I also half suspect they are going to crash the financial markets when reality and hype catch up with each other. Who knows, I might be wrong, they might discover machine intelligence and make AI actually be AI in the next 5-10 years which would be quite the achievement since we don't have a good grasp of what intelligence even is including our own. It's not really anything new though, hot new technology gets early adoption, salespeople move in, becomes massively over hyped, will change everything turns out to not change everything but be useful for some things, gets used for those things and the world continues. I'm even old enough to remember when OOP was spoken about as "The Next Big Thing That Will Change Everything". Gartner even has a name for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

bdangubic 1y ago
> OOP was spoken about as "The Next Big Thing That Will Change Everything" OOP WAS a Big Thing that DID change everything :)
- noir_lord 1y ago
  Indeed, see Plateau of Productivity on the linked Gartner Hype Cycle. Nothing I said implied it didn't but also the hype was way out there mostly iirc on the back of Java but the hyperbole was very familiar to what we see now about LLM's.
ronbenton 1y ago
Yes there are negative people here as well, and also people like you who are skeptical about the hype parts. But I’ve just noticed on other social media it’s like 100 naysayers for every proponent
sedawkgrep 1y ago
I think most of the hate and resistance is due to the erosion of trust that comes with AI. We’re already at the point where you have to question the authenticity of A/V media you see on social media. Soon we may not be able to trust even news outlets. Nobody* wants this to happen, yet it’s charging forward. * yes of course there are some, but they’re already the ones with the power and money.

bdangubic 1y ago

> OOP was spoken about as "The Next Big Thing That Will Change Everything" OOP WAS a Big Thing that DID change everything :)

noir_lord 1y ago
Indeed, see Plateau of Productivity on the linked Gartner Hype Cycle. Nothing I said implied it didn't but also the hype was way out there mostly iirc on the back of Java but the hyperbole was very familiar to what we see now about LLM's.

ronbenton 1y ago

Yes there are negative people here as well, and also people like you who are skeptical about the hype parts. But I’ve just noticed on other social media it’s like 100 naysayers for every proponent

sedawkgrep 1y ago

I think most of the hate and resistance is due to the erosion of trust that comes with AI. We’re already at the point where you have to question the authenticity of A/V media you see on social media. Soon we may not be able to trust even news outlets. Nobody* wants this to happen, yet it’s charging forward. * yes of course there are some, but they’re already the ones with the power and money.