there are many reasons to be critical of current AI tools, but the "it doesn't quite work so it never will" takes seem so disconnected from the reality of the pace of research that they just seem like bad faith arguments
@ivan Who says that? And why even discuss with someone who pretends to know the future?
That sounds like a cover-up discussion for the actual problems. ChatGPT is the new "blockchain": a solution looking for a problem. Meanwhile CEOs with zero understanding of the tech are already scheming how many employees they could fire.
And OpenAI do what they can to to further fuel the hype train with ridiculous announcements.
https://futurism.com/experts-slam-openais-meaningless-new-promises-about-agi
@kolya i didn't mean this to be about AGI or even LLMs specifically. unlike blockchain, which is truly useless technology, there are many ML models that can already do useful things (like write code or generate images), just not well. the question is whether they will get significantly better at those tasks. i see a lot of AI criticism online focus on the quality of the output which seems misguided as that vector is clearly constantly improving and there are many other issues with AI.
@ivan the criticism focusses on the output because of a misunderstanding what chatgpt is and can do. this misunderstanding is a) people mistaking a stochastic markov chain generator for intelligence and b) OpenAI fuelling that misunderstanding to the best of their ability.