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I'm usually the one saying "AI is already as good as it's gonna get, for a long while."

This article, in contrast, is quotes from folks making the next AI generation - saying the same.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It's pretty obvious that they will hit a ceiling.

Quick buck is over. And now it's time again for base research to create better approach.

I really wish we had a really advanced AI with reasonable resource consumption within my lifetime. I don't think it's unreasonable as we have got really far in the last 30 years of computational technology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem isn't with the AI. It's with how it's being treated. It's currently being sold as if it were general intelligence. Which it's not. It should instead be treated like it's a mindless tool. Something that is inert on its own. Useful for some things but only in a limited sense. Unfortunately the companies, who have spent millions of dollars developing these things, are trying to sell it as the "do-all" artificial intelligence that people have grown up seeing in sci-fi media. Which it 100% is not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Every company have always oversell their own products. This is not new.

Coca Cola is also just a carbonated sweet drink and it's being sold as happiness, socialization and the meaning of Christmas in a bottle.

Companies oversell, it's called marketing. It's shit practice but it's not nothing new.

That does not make the technology worse (or better). Current AI technology has its uses. With a big problem in how resource hungry it is. But it's fairly useful.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really wish we had a really advanced AI with reasonable resource consumption within my lifetime.

You only wish that for as long as it doesn't happen. Have you looked at the world we live in? Such tools would be controlled by the same billionaire dipshits for their personal gain as all social media is being used already.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It open the gates for open source development, as the social media we are right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That made less than zero sense...

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

AI would open social media gates by using analog computers. Coders will be able to AI their projects so that they can start working on them now. Such like the social media we are right now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ain't it so? I feel like the two confused posters are either demented LLM bots, or non-English speakers using an old style paper dictionary for literal translations from whatever language... Most likely bots though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Hello yes excuse me I take grand exemption to the remarkable status that I or other users in this modified space are diligent AI such that this thread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I to wish for a better world to live in. But this is not they world.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We've come a long way in computing, but the computational power difference between a human brain and a computer is significant. LLMs were just a smart way to have computers learn pattern recognition. While important, it isn't anything close to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is what the term AI usually means.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah.   AI may grind for a while but hardly anyone has put the current stuff to work, yet.   We will be feeling the benefits of what is released right now for a decade to come.   I am working on a very rudimentary application that will use ML at work and it won't come out for 12 more months, and it hardly does anything but make the most obvious decisions 10m times faster than I can.   But it's going to fundamentally change our labor model.    

There are regular folks applying amazing technologies that go way beyond content generation.      

The tech may grind but the application of that tech is barely getting its feet and should run hard for a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You’re not using a typewriter.

[–] CancerMancer 1 points 2 days ago

How to tell someone uses Hacker News without asking:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)