What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by pps » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 3:40 PM UTC

What it feels like to work in AI right now
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Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by version_five » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 3:47 PM UTC

Huge crypto vibes

  Every single person I know working in AI these days ... has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment.

Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by jutrewag » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 7:58 PM UTC

version_five wrote: post #2

Huge crypto vibes Every single person I know working in AI these days ... has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment.

Maybe in a certain sense. These are full fledged products from large companies at this point however with paying customers and real world daily usage in all aspects of life.

Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by pgwhalen » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 8:04 PM UTC

version_five wrote: post #2

Huge crypto vibes Every single person I know working in AI these days ... has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment.

I'm curious why you draw the parallel - did crypto ever have a ChatGPT/iPhone moment? As an observant outsider, my impression is that every "moment" of note in crypto has been about some price going way up or way down - there has never been a "this is the use case" moment.

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Post by bestcoder69 » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 8:07 PM UTC

version_five wrote: post #2

Huge crypto vibes Every single person I know working in AI these days ... has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment.

Popular things = crypto ?

I’d say the differentiator is that in addition to hype scammers, you have people like Stephen Wolfram excited.

Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by NikolaNovak » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 8:13 PM UTC

version_five wrote: post #2

Huge crypto vibes Every single person I know working in AI these days ... has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment.

I see what you mean; but as external observer to both, I see crypto as having failed to provide or prove any particularly productive use; and chatGPT, for all its flaws, has been useful to me daily for last 2 months - and not in some crazy make-money-in-suspicious-ways sense, but like learning french and python and figuring out new concepts and stuff. But that's sample n=1 I suppose, there are both people that believe in crypto and those who believe chatGPT is useless.

Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now

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Post by PUSH_AX » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 8:16 PM UTC

pgwhalen wrote: post #4

version_five wrote: post #2

Huge crypto vibes Every single person I know working in AI these days ... has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment.

I'm curious why you draw the parallel - did crypto ever have a ChatGPT/iPhone moment? As an observant outsider, my impression is that every "moment" of note in crypto has been about some price going way up or way down - there has never been a "this is the use case" moment.

You're forgetting the "free money" gold rush of late 00's, Just buy lots of computers and try not to cook yourself in your own room.

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Post by bakugo » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 8:17 PM UTC

version_five wrote: post #2

Huge crypto vibes Every single person I know working in AI these days ... has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment.

Pretty much, you can take any article hyping up AI/ChatGPT/etc and replace those words with crypto stuff and it's virtually indistinguishable from the crypto spam of yesteryear.

I wonder what the next "get rich quick" techbro fad will be.

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Post by rimliu » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 8:21 PM UTC

NikolaNovak wrote: post #6

version_five wrote: post #2

Huge crypto vibes Every single person I know working in AI these days ... has been sparked by the ChatGPT moment.

I see what you mean; but as external observer to both, I see crypto as having failed to provide or prove any particularly productive use; and chatGPT, for all its flaws, has been useful to me daily for last 2 months - and not in some crazy make-money-in-suspicious-ways sense, but like learning french and python and figuring out new concepts and stuff. But that's sample n=1 I suppose, there are both people that believ…

I wonder how much of usefulness of ChatGPT that some report is caused by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_effect Because it is new, and cool, and fascinating people are spending a bit more time with a bit more focus on the task with it compared to the old ways, hence the productivity increase. Once the novelty wears off…