And it's amazing they didn't, because most of the tech industry only gets paid in a world where there are offices (either physical or virtual) full of people with money to spend during and after work.
It's still very rare for anyone to be asking "how do we do more with more?" But the person who figures that out is going to be the winner (and if no one figures it out we will all lose, even if you manage to transition to a job that still exists the world around you will be a nightmare).
It’s the full-self-driving of the 2020s (complete with the never-ending ‘we actually have it now you just don’t understand!’)
[Edit: I don’t mean it’s useless, just that its boosters are overhyping it - expanding on and agreeing with Had they been more realistic with the promises and didn’t frame it as replacing all of us within 2 years, I would have been more excited about the tech.]
Just keep in mind that you're likely hearing from a limited subset of all tech CEOs.
"CEO Expresses Moderate Confidence that AI Can Enable Modest Productivity Gains" is not an article that gets written, because it would not generate clicks.
The amount of money these companies need seems to be all of nothing, they’re raising like it’s life or death and if you read their books or tweets they’re not shy about it
I often hear this. Can you give me a question where a major LLM hallucinates or provides poor guidance? Reproducible would be great
Just a question to stump it.
This is a common occurrence.
I still regularly run into the issue where it just makes up API endpoints, CLI commands, or add flags that simply don’t exist.
I also regularly ask it things and it gives me a bad answers, so I push back, and it says something to the effect of “you’re right, I didn’t consider that, let me look at that more”… then tells me the exact opposite of the previous response.
Or it “thing X has never happened”, and I ask what about <insert example>, and it goes to look it up and says, “oh, thing X actually did happen.”
I run into this daily. Multiple times per day. How can I trust a system like this? Are people just blindly accepting what the LLM says as truth? Is that why people think it’s good?
Wouldn’t it be great? I’m still waiting for reproducibility from LLMs.
Give me a question which the LLM answers vastly differently on runs.
I keep hearing how it's dumb and wrong but no one ever shares the chat or prompt
How many days of the week contain the letter d?
The answer I get with ChatGPT, and Grok is 3 and 6 with Claude.
In Firefox I got 6. In Chrome I got 7. LLMs are not even self-consistent.
I have the screenshots if anyone cares.
Teams Copilot meeting assistant auto-renamed a meeting title/summary that’s now prominently placed at the top to “Month end close wrap up discussion“ because someone posted in chat “sorry can’t make the meeting, we’re wrapping up month end close”.
Really confused the next guy who joined the meeting and derailed things for a minute or two before we could get back on topic.
Why would someone else's unrealistic assessment affect your assessment of the actual abilities you see?
Seems like your opinion is mostly politics-based
Someone else’s unrealistic assessment frame expectations, especially when they are attempting to speak from a place of authority, which they were. When reality doesn’t meet or exceed those expectations it creates disappointment. The expectations they set were impossibly high.
This is a pretty common thing. I’m sure we’ve all been disappointed by a movie or restaurant that a friend hyped up endlessly, which really didn’t live up to the expectations that were set. It’s the same deal here.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_confirmation_theor...
What came out was a clone of Ingress with a skin and a shop. It lacked the full set of Pokemon, which all the assets for already exist. It lacked having a six-Pokemon team. It lacked trading, a core feature of Pokemon in every generation of games. Gyms weren't even gyms, they were some sort of checkpoint XP farm thing.
If it had been pitched as what it was, I may have enjoyed it more. Instead, I found myself vastly disappointed with what I was able to achieve playing it compared to Pokemon on my Nintendo DS or some other handheld console.
I don't think this was a politics-based decision. I feel misled and disillusioned.
The fatigue of the product (and sting of false promises) causes the negatives to overshadow anything positive to say.