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Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'

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Re: Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'

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Post by cl42 »

It's amazing how many researchers underestimate the importance of UX and design.

Personally, seeing non-technical people using prompts for the first time -- and getting results that make sense -- is so incredible. Their eyes light up, they are surprised, and they want to keep playing with it. Amazing!

A sizeable part of the population just got access to an incredibly complex AI model and can play with it. What a collective experience.

Re: Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'

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Post by nightski »

soperj wrote: post #6

This is very much people seeing the Apple Lisa(and/or Mac) for the first time. It had all been done better in the labs at Xerox over a decade earlier. No one got to use it though.

To me it's childish, and I have no idea why Yann decided this needed to be shouted on Twitter. I've lost a lot of respect for him over this.

Re: Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'

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Post by ryanSrich »

cl42 wrote: post #12

It's amazing how many researchers underestimate the importance of UX and design. Personally, seeing non-technical people using prompts for the first time -- and getting results that make sense -- is so incredible. Their eyes light up, they are surprised, and they want to keep playing with it. Amazing! A sizeable part of the population just got access to an incredibly complex AI model and can play with it. What a coll…

> It's amazing how many researchers underestimate the importance of UX and design.

Yes. Also the fact that ChatGPT's UX and design leaves much to be desired. They could add/improve the product in so many obvious ways. I wonder if they either 1.) don't care, or 2.) have plans to, but are holding off until they take on a subscription fee.

Re: Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'

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Post by time_to_smile »

He's not wrong. The key ingredient in ChatGPT is not brilliance but capital. It takes a lot of money not just to do the raw training but to get all the data together and process everything.

There's no break through insights that make ChatGPT work, just a lot of consolidated wealth.

The hacker part of me finds AI less and less interesting for this reason. We're seeing what the limits of pouring resources into the problem are. The results are cool, but I think we'll very soon see progress bound since we're using most of the data we can and it doesn't look like adding even more parameters to these models might not yield that much of result.

But this shift in AI means it's increasing something programmers consume rather than produce.

As far as interesting AI goes, I found the series of posts on stuff people were doing with Prolog that showed up during the last month much more interesting.

Re: Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'

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Post by cl42 »

ryanSrich wrote: post #14
cl42 wrote: post #12

It's amazing how many researchers underestimate the importance of UX and design. Personally, seeing non-technical people using prompts for the first time -- and getting results that make sense -- is so incredible. Their eyes light up, they are surprised, and they want to keep playing with it. Amazing! A sizeable part of the population just got access to an incredibly complex AI model and can play with it. What a coll…

> It's amazing how many researchers underestimate the importance of UX and design. Yes. Also the fact that ChatGPT's UX and design leaves much to be desired. They could add/improve the product in so many obvious ways. I wonder if they either 1.) don't care, or 2.) have plans to, but are holding off until they take on a subscription fee.

What would you change to the UX and design to make it even better?

Re: Yann LeCun: ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative'

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Post by jancsika »

soperj wrote: post #6

This is very much people seeing the Apple Lisa(and/or Mac) for the first time. It had all been done better in the labs at Xerox over a decade earlier. No one got to use it though.

Show me the AI chat system from a decade ago that could hallucinate a git repo.

Edit: let me be more careful:

Show me the AI chat system from a decade ago that wasn't specifically designed to hallucinate git repos, but would hallucinate a git repo in response a detailed natural language prompt. It should have been good enough in its output to cause the user to write more prompts in an attempt to gauge whether the AI system is querying the internet in realtime to generate its response.

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