I genuinely believed that AI this capable wouldn’t be feasible in my lifetime.
Nah. I was at first then realized its a HUGEEE marketing hype train with billions behind it and that is why it proliferated. If it didnt have that no one would give a fuck. It doesn’t do anything we havent had tools to do for 20 years. It made some things a little easier for dumb people.
Read up some Ed Ziteron to clear your head. They (the altmans of the world) want you to think this way and give up so you stop learning, atrophy your brain, and pay a knowledge subscription to use their inaccurate summarizing bot. Thats the end goal, a grift, as usual, and why right wing fascists love it so much.
Really nothing has changed.
You should stop reading marketing junk. Several of the newer models have benchmarked as worse then original releases. Many firms roll back AI deployments, some models create more errors then it would take to fire and intern and some can’t even run a vending machine business
Your answer seems to be regarding large language models and the possibility of them replacing human workers, which, to be clear, is fine and all but I was talking about ai in general.
For example, seedance is so much better than sora, veo and the like.
Recently, with the release of Open Ai’s new image model I have seen how hard it is to tell they are ai generated. Youtuber Dan Dingle made a video about it if you wanna see how good it is.
Even people who are supposedly good at spotting ai generated media often mention “vibes” instead of anything concrete when describing why they think something is ai generated.
You are fine with people loosing jobs to a technology that doesn’t work but are worried about a model that can make pixels in kinda the right order?
Not really. If anything, I’m frustrated how slowly it’s improving. Most new models are just made by pouring more money into the same problem instead of actually inventing anything new.
We have this glorified autocomplete feature and we are treating it for some reason like it would be an artificial general intelligence only because it outputs human like sentences. At the same time, it weakens the quality of the school system, products and services, raises the prices of consumer electronics, fills my internet with slop and destroys natural resources. We are living in a some kind of transitional phase and there are still many problems that have not yet been solved and it’s really frustrating.
Anytime I ask it about things I’m knowledgeable about, it falls on it’s face. It only seems smart on topics I don’t know shit about (this red flag has spotlights on it!). Given this, I cannot trust it on anything lest I be led down false paths. Given how LLMs work, I don’t see this problem as fixable.
I have found them useful for search term generation. (Using a topic I know things about) If I need a more powerful drill for screwing lag bolts into hardwood and I’m not finding what I need, asking it and and getting back the keyword ‘impact driver’ is helpful, as it lets me go search for what that is and if it is the solution to my need for a more powerful drill. Note: I do not let it teach me about impact drivers (as it falls on it’s face all the fucking time), only use it to get the keyword to then use to search the internet.
To circle back to your question, I’m not scared with how fast they are advancing. I’m scared by how many people think they are good at everything and put them in places they don’t belong.
