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--"You know it's free, right?"
"Yes."
I found this inexplicable and infuriating. Perhaps someone can shed light on the psychology of such people?
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In your opinion, how does the "hallucination" issue differ from the same behaviour we see in humans? I don't claim or believe that any LLM is actually intelligent. It just seems that we (at least on an individual basis) can also meet the criteria outlined above. I know plenty of people who are confidently incorrect and appear unwilling to learn or accept their own limitations, myself included. In my opinion, even if…
> how does the "hallucination" issue differ from the same behaviour we see in humans? In humans “hallucination” means observing false inputs. In GTP it means creating false outputs . Completely different with massively different connotations.
How do you know that? You can only observe the output of the humans (other than yourself).
Sadly I think you've contradicted yourself a small bit here, while also stumbling across the exact reason AI mainstream adoption will go quicker than anticipated: it'll happen without mainstream awareness.
I work in a security role and we're currently trying to do risk assessments of AI adoption by tech workers, and integration of AI APIs/services into our products, and it's not even a case of "how bad will it be", it's much more "how bad is it". AI is being used a lot by individuals in the workplace with very little discourse or auditing of that usage.
Even outside of tech, someone somewhere in it administration was already seeing enough daily AI usage to warrant the drafting of this official guidance, for quite a non-tech-industry audience: https://twitter.com/marcidale/status/1645972869393047552
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That sounds like something Wolfram could do without chatGPT. It accepts natural language input.
You could have tested this easily. It doesn't look like you can get JSON directly out of it, nor any other type of data that meets the criteria of the query. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Give+me+a+JSON+document...
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Just as companies use layoffs at other companies as a smokescreen to do their own layoffs, "we're using AI" has become an excuse to cut back on expensive writers. In fact, I'd bet that the opposite will happen WRT AI-generated content: individual writers with personality will become even more in-demand. ChatGPT isn't going to fake a "personality" anytime soon.
> individual writers with personality will become even more in-demand. The demand may be there, but discoverability will be very difficult with so many people already in that arena. The Awl and Splinter News was an online publication made up of ex-Gawker people, exactly the kind of independent voice you'd think people would want to read. And they did, just not in enough volume for those sites to ever make money. And…
I was thinking more along the lines of Substack, but with a larger dose of "influencer" personality-driven brands.
Definitely. The tech is impressive but anyone I've spoken to thinks of it as Cleverbot 2.0, and among the more technically minded I've found that people mostly are indifferent. Hell, IRL most people I know don't think much of it, though on HN and elsewhere online I see a lot of people praising it as the next coming of Christ (this thread included) which puts it in a similar tier as crypto and other Web3 hypetrains as…
> And a funny personal anecdote, a colleague of mine tried to use ChatGPT4 when answering a customer question (they work support). The customer instantly knew it was AI-generated and was quite pissed about it, so the support team has an unofficial rule to not do that any more. My team raised a support issue with one of our suppliers due to some unexpected API behaviour and got an unusually flowery reply that complete…
If you can export a UI with defined behaviors from Figma to React / NextJS, and AI can figure out how to code it, then Front End Developers become a thing of the past.
If there's a similar modelling tool for Back End and AI can code the exported design, then BE devs become obsolete.
It is irrelevant if lay people have heard of it or not - we're still out of a job.
Definitely. The tech is impressive but anyone I've spoken to thinks of it as Cleverbot 2.0, and among the more technically minded I've found that people mostly are indifferent. Hell, IRL most people I know don't think much of it, though on HN and elsewhere online I see a lot of people praising it as the next coming of Christ (this thread included) which puts it in a similar tier as crypto and other Web3 hypetrains as…
>puts it in a similar tier as crypto Comparisons between AI and crypto are horribly misguided IMO. Is AI overhyped? Sure. However - AI/ML is creating utility everywhere in our lives - speech to text, language translation, recommendation engines, relevancy ranking in search, computer vision, etc. and seems to be getting embedded in more and more processes by the day. Crypto never amounted to anything beyond a currency…
I think the contention is with AI suddenly being redefined as only referring to language models, and the view that intelligence has been solved by these models.
There has clearly been a massive marketing push to label these models as the "one true AI", both from companies and from AI influencers. This is where the echo chamber exists, and it's easy to get stuck in it.
Maybe I am wrong and we have solved intelligence. But I seriously doubt it.
I do think the integrations available in many of the tools I encounter is probably a better signal of potential and impact. We are in year one. I suspect LLMs will continue to evolve and still have market legs in a decade.