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This, despite the ongoing social litigation of if this is even real? I believe AI is quite capable in the right circumstances, but I'm not convinced "this" is
by tescreal 23d ago
This, despite the ongoing social litigation of if this is even real?
I believe AI is quite capable in the right circumstances, but I'm not convinced "this" is the watershed moment.
- scotty79 23d agoI think the watershed moment was when it was proven that it can solve highschoolers maths olympiad problems at competitive level. These problems require complexity of thinking that is beyond what most humans have to deal with in their entire lifetime. When AI took that in stride it was obvious that sky is the limit and entirety of current human achivement is a milestone but in a sense of the one that the car passes while doing 60.
- lolakutty 23d ago>entirety of current human achivement.. The right way to look at it is that LLMs help us to maximize the utility of the entirety of current human achievement/knowledge by discovering obscure connections in it.
- scotty79 23d agoSo pretty much the same thing that humans do. New things come out of those connections.
- lolakutty 23d agoYea, it is a better search tool than humans, as computers always were....
- scotty79 23d agoThe qualitative difference is that it searches semantically across unstructured data and is able to cleverly combine related searches into an answer. Imagine SQL but the queries mostly write themselves and database is just entirety of human knowledge with no formalization. If you were to create such thing 7 years ago you'd say somebody expects a miracle out of you. I don't get why so many people have trouble recognizing it now as such.
- lolakutty 22d agoYes, it is a very efficient search tool for existing data..
- scotty79 22d agoComming back to SQL analogy... When you make a view over existing data tables that calculates something novel did you extend the amount of existing data? Because AIs are sort of like that. Creating views of existing data no human has ever came up with. Views that might unlock new even more surprising and useful views. They are sort of materialized views because we are writing down what LLMs came up with. So they are new data tables. Derived, true. But possibly novel and unlocking something else.
- lolakutty 22d agoSorry. I don't agree that it "create" views autonomously. A human has to create a view in a database. In the case of LLM, a human has to create a "prompt" that the LLM just continue, based on the patterns humans has created in the past.