Post #2300000
2024-01-14 14:56 UTC
I think this, a discussion of the parallels between "AI" and "crypto", is a good take. I want to dig into the bit on "AI" being different because it has practical use.
"AI" is a marketing term. There's the stuff that was mainly called "ML" up until 2021 or so, which definitely has practical uses. E.g., if you're running a social network and need to help humans find the toxic stuff, ML can help.
But in the last few years there's a wave of hype mainly around the large language models, LLMs, and the large text-to-image models. So things like ChatGPT and DALL-E. It's really not clear to me those have much more practical use than crypto. Certainly not over their costs. 1/
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@williampietri@sfba.social 2024-01-14 15:22
Just to be sure I'm not being unfair, I searched for writeups of LLM uses. Here's a representative example of the genre: https://www.techopedia.com/12-practical-large-language-model-llm-applications They mention 12 use cases. Some are done better with simpler, cheaper models or non-ML techniques (1, 4, 6, 8, 12). Some are wildly speculative (2, 9, 10). But that leaves 4 items that I want look at carefully: content creation, customer support, sales automation, and writing code. Those are at least superficially plausible places where LLMs and large image models could have practical uses. 2/