Something I’ve found disappointing in the “AI conversation” around me …

… there hasn’t been enough honest introspection about how this whole thing feels and likely will feel.

Like, there’s something disturbing in AI’s first “success” being “art” and “music”.

There’s something disturbing about how we were never going to be able to help ourselves & are compelled to make things like LLMs, but can still be frightened by its implications.

anger v hype leaves all that out

@casualconversation

  • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦English
    36·
    18 days ago

    There’s something disturbing about how we were never going to be able to help ourselves & are compelled to make things like LLMs, but can still be frightened by its implications.

    Don’t be frightened by LLMs. LLMs are the latest bitcoin-like fiasco—the latest in a long, proud tradition of bullshit technologies sold by bullshit human beings. It’s crap technology with no real use case. On the surface, if you just casually look them over, they look impressive, but the more you look into them, the less impressive and useful they seem and the more hollow the promises of the people saying “BUT THE NEXT GENERATION WILL BE AWESOME” sound.

    Bitcoin/blockchain/yaddayaddayadda seemed unstoppable … until it became an obvious pile of scams, grifts, and failure. LLMs are following that graph on speed-walk.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      18 days ago

      While LLMs might not be the path to AGI (though they might) there’s still quite the difference between gpt2 and 4. What’s gpt5 going to be like? Or 8? No one can know how good it can get even if it’s just faking intelligence. Atleast one thing is for sure; the current version of it is the worst it’ll ever be.