I mean, I was sold something different. Something super human, vastly more intelligent, world changing. The reality is not that. Am I allowed to be disappointed and discouraged?
replyIt has changed the world in major ways, although its not entirely visible because we've become numb to the idea of AI and AI being in everything.
replyIt hasn't changed the way we sleep, wake up, eat, walk and talk so its not "life changing" or "world changing" in the sense a meteorite hit us, but each day thousands of mini meteorites are hitting Earth and we're becoming normalized to it one step at a time.
You are allowed to be disappointed and discouraged! For all the good tech that has come out of the AI revolution, most of it is ignored or shelved for things that can squeeze more and more money out of us and make our lifes worse, not better. Despite there being real potential to generate nice code, assist with biomedical research, self-driving cars, etc.
Which is it? Major changes or a bunch of small changes. I'm well aware of the small changes. I worked for an autonomous drone company back in 2008. It was really cool! In 2020 I started working for an autonomous car company. Again, amazing! None of it was a quick step function improvement. It was a lot of hard work. None of it was quite superhumanly smart either. LLMs are impressive pattern completion machines but they kinda suck at producing anything truly novel. Plus they are compulsive liars about that, lol!
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