It's nice to see people waking up and realizing the fallacies of AI.

Given that I've been against AI since day 1, it's giving me a little superiority complex ngl.

same, but I'm keeping it in check, because being a condescending asshole usually has the opposite effect and ends up hurting both me and the other side.

but yeah, I'm happy that it's slowing down right now... but don't hold your breath just yet. I'm pretty sure Jensen Huang or Sam Altman will come with some kind of new buzzword to bring the people back to their side... And hey, it worked 4 times already, I have no reason to think anything else would happen if they do it again

The stock market disagrees with your call they AI is dying.

I work in the industry. It isn't going away, just like dotcoms didn't go away in the 90s.

Lots of nonsense out there, but it's real.

@retoor I don't think Sid implies It's not here to stay. But the fact is "AI" is being sold to the masses as something It's not. It's not even AI for godsake, It's just an LLM. Those are not equal. A weather model is not an AI, a physics model is not an AI, but Sam Altman is happy to tell you that a language model is a super intelligent AI, close to AGI, the future is now blah blah blah...

A langugage model is useful as fuck for working with NLP problems... But they pretend It's so much more

@retoor
The term "AI" is often used to describe a system that can perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. This can include things like learning, problem-solving, decision-making, and natural language processing. LLM (Large Language Models) like GPT-3 fall under the category of artificial intelligence because they are designed to process and generate human-like text based on large amounts of data. So yes, LLMs are considered a form of AI.

@retoor I can run python scripts with 2 clicks instead or using a massive gpu to run a language model to generate a json that hopefully runs that script.

I can also google such Scripts without the need or the same llm... It's more accessible when you put an LLM interface in front of a library of scripts or if you get lucky and your ask is simple enough that the model seen in at least a couple hundred times to rewrite or modify it slightly. But then we're still just talking about the llm being an interesting model. It's also more than just a sum of It's parts because some form of logic is an emergent property of a language by definition. So It's able to fake thought because It's modeling it. But Its capabilities are vastly overblown. OpenAI is a business, and a predictable one at that. The strategy of making it free at first to hook people and then ramping the price, the fake demos, the neverending hype generation.

Don't be fooled. It's a cool model, but that's all we have so far

I mean, Im using LLMs myself. I absolutely love the ability to transform NL problems into formatted data and back. The models are excelent. This is the one task that Transformers were made to do, and they do it well. Im in no way an AI hater or denier or whatever. But Im really annoyed that the big tech companies are massively abusing peoples naivete and ignorance to build up empty hype and line their pockets with money in exchange for promises and a massive electrical and CO2 bill. It's exhausting watching people fall for the same scam again. Fucking google engineers talking about sentient AIs in the labs, faked demos with fake remorse later, inflation valuations based on endless exponential growth with massive layoffs later, tons of scammers and opportunists abusing the tech to trick others, a new buzzword every month to keep the obedient sheep shilling out more money for the newest model that actually performs worse. This shit just never ends because people are not willing to learn

Ai gives me the impression that it's controlled by a very jealous ex-girlfriend. lol

@retoor

I am not even wasting time on you and your arguments. If you ask me to stay away from you, I'll do it. But you will have to do the same, and stay away from me.

Is that clear?

AI is just another tool.

no, it won't take your job, unless your job is garbage AND you're garbage at it.

@retoor so much this. The ads and also the overhyped channels on YouTube have an extreme effect on people, including me. The more I can avoid it the less stressed I am on average. But Im also more and more angry that this is the default state for society and we just allow this to be done to millions of others, especially young and impressionable minds. It just pisses me off that we get more and more research into how detrimental "modern internet" is to peoples psyche and yet no one is doing anything to control or stop it. And the hype around AI is just the newest trend that makes the exploitation worse and as far as Im concerned it should be illegal to pull these stunts. Im pretty sure around 60% of official info on AI should fall under false advertising and should cost them millions whenever It's revealed :/ Peoples privacy, mental health and Security should be more important than money overall, but it isn't and it really makes me want to start a revolution