Post #3192414

2024-06-17 22:59 UTC

@shafik@hachyderm.io AI and ChatGPT are in their infancy. Think of AI as in alpha testing. Not ready for prime time. It will get better. Much better. In the meantime don't trust it except in specialized cases.

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@shafik@hachyderm.io 2024-06-17 23:14

@mintyfresh@mastodon.social lots of "heavy lifting" here "infancy", this field has been growing since the 50s. We have iterated over many major techniques LLMs being the most recent but ML and deep learning was the previous two "big deals". Great stuff but decades in the making still. LLMs flaws won't be fixed quickly. The breakthroughs are mostly measured in terms of decades not years. For "practical" purposes that is an eternity. Folks will find lots of "useful" ways to use LLMs, won't live up to the hype.

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@minneyar@fuzzyfox.social 2024-06-18 19:32

@mintyfresh@mastodon.social @shafik@hachyderm.io I'm skeptical because "AI" experts having been saying this for about sixty years now, and the only real improvement I've seen since then is the volume of output. Make some hype when it's actually ready for prime time, not when it's still just a predictive text engine powered by a table of statistics. I especially don't trust "AI" in specialized cases, because those are situations where I know enough to recognize how it is often dangerously wrong.

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