Best assessment I've heard: Current AI is an aggressive autocomplete.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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I’ve found that relying on it is a mistake anyhow, the amount of incorrect information I’ve seen from chatgpt has been crazy. It’s not a bad thing to get started with it but it’s like reading a grade school kids homework, you need to proofread the heck out of it.
I just reviewed a PR today and the code was... bad, like unusually bad for mycoworkers and left some comments.
Then my coworker said he used chatgpt without really thinking on what he was copypasting.
On one hard there's the emergence of the best chat bot we've ever created. Neat, I guess.
On the other hand, there's VC capital scurrying around for the next big thing to invest in, lazy journalism looking for a source of new content to write about, talentless middle management looking for something to latch on to so they can justify their existence through cost cutting, and FOMO from people who don't understand that it's just a fancy chat bot.
I agree, but you make it sound like a fancy chat bot can't do amazing things. I don't use any openAI products for moral reasons, but LLMs in general are amazing tools, and good entertainment.
They're impressive, no doubt but the jury is still out on how useful they actually are given their ability to be confidently incorrect about all kinds of things.
That's probably the most humanlike aspect of them.
I wonder if they're trained on content from Reddit's politics subs.
id say its like the dotcom bubble.
yeah its incredible new & emerging tech,
but that doesnt mean it isnt overhyped.
What's the dotcom bubble?
I use github copilot. It really is just fancy autocomplete. It's often useful and is indeed impressive. But it's not revolutionary.
I've also played with ChatGPT and tried to use it to help me code but never successfully. The reality is I only try it if google has failed me, and then it usually makes up something that sounds right but is in fact completely wrong. Probably because it's been trained on the same insufficient data I've been looking at.
Overrated? Compared to what AGI that does not exist yet? Overhyped though? Absolutely.
We went from very little AI content making its way to your eyeballs and ears, to it occurring daily if not during your very session here today. So many thumbnails and writeups have used AI that to say it is overrated it a bit absurd unless you were expecting it to be be AGI, then yes the AI today is overrated, but it does not matter as you are consuming it still.
We went from very little AI content making its way to your eyeballs and ears, to it occurring daily if not during your very session here today.
And this AI content that you're consuming, is that an improvement?
If not maybe it's uh, what's the word? Overrated.
It is for sure an improvement as for example would have been a very basic thumbnail is now something much more interesting in so many instances.