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Also equating artificial intelligence with LLMs. I get that laymen and the media do it, but imo this looks really bad for an investor.
by thenaturalist 10mo ago
Also equating artificial intelligence with LLMs.
I get that laymen and the media do it, but imo this looks really bad for an investor.
- ACCount37 10mo agoWhat's the alternative? Is there literally any AI tech more promising and disruptive than LLMs? Or should we buy into that "it's not ackhtually AI" meme?
- ares623 10mo agoThe alternative is to be f*cking honest
- ACCount37 10mo ago"Fucking honest" how? If I'm being fucking honest, then this generation of LLMs might already beat most humans on raw intelligence, AI progress shows no signs of stopping, and "it's not actually thinking" is just another "AI effect" cope that humans come up with to feel more important and more exceptional. Or is this not the "fucking honesty" you want?
- lioeters 10mo agoThe more you talk, the more you're proving their point.
- bluebarbet 10mo agoThis contribution adds nothing to the conversation except gratuitous venom.
- Planktonne 10mo agoI don't think that's fair; one of the most significant criticisms of the AI industry is the number of misleading claims made by its spokespeople, which has had a significant effect on public perception. The parent comment is a relevant expression of that.
- dmurvihill 10mo agoWell deserved and badly needed venom*
- charcircuit 10mo agoVisual reasoning models. Having a computer being able to understand what is happening in the real world is very useful.
- ACCount37 10mo agoThose are LLMs with an extra modality bolted to them. Which is good - that it works this well speaks of the generality of autoregressive transformers, and the "reasoning over image data" progress with things like Qwen3-VL is very impressive. It's a good capability to have. But it's not a separate thing from the LLM breakthrough at all. Even the more specialized real time robotics AIs often have a bag of transformers backed by an actual LLM.
- askl 10mo ago> but imo this looks really bad for an investor. Why? Would you expect an investor to understand what they're investing in?
- bregma 10mo agoInvestor, yes. Mark, no.