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AI demand is already shrinking

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Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#71

Bing's implementation is worthless dogshit. Using Bing's market share as a measure to gauge the general demand for AI does not provide an accurate representation.

It's a good idea (using real time search to supplement AI responses), but yeah, it's very much a PoC that they just went straight to prod with. It's not a usable product the way it is.

Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#72

It doesn't help (especially Bing AI) is so restricted, politically correct, moralist, conformist.

Yeah, if it talked like 4chan and would randomly produce incorrect bomb recipes, people would totally use it more.

Uncalled for sarcasm. I'm a medicine student and it shuts off the conversation when asking about topics involving, say, penis anatomy, or divergent philosophical arguments, say, Nietzsche style, and these are just two examples among a thousand ones. I could care less about bomb recipes or 4chan for that matter. I don't recognize myself with the 4chan mentality.

Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#73
post #28

This article paints an overly negative picture. It's fairly obvious that AI is only going to improve from where it's at today, and the hyperbolic language about no one caring makes me less inclined to believe that the author is attempting to paint an honest picture. I derive immense value out of Gpt4 as an aid for coding, a search engine replacement that accepts open ended questions, a writing aid, etc. I know someon…

It’s suffering from extreme overhype pushed by OpenAI. They wanted people to think the human-led world was over and they were first to market on creating the new overlords. This soured them on a lot of tech people and ensured whatever they built could never live up. Still a great product and I use a chatbot everyday for work, but it’s just that a chatbot.

Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#74

It really looks like ChatGPT suffered from some form of "initial over hype syndrome". I'm not underestimating it, actually I think the application of transformers to do what ChatGPT is capable of doing is something really impressive, novel and caught the world by surprise. I'm sure we'll find many equally impressively good applications for it. But people eventually found its limitations. And did it quite fast. People…

> I asked it "What was the phase of the Moon when John Lennon was killed"

What I don't understand is this: when the AI doesn't have >95% confidence it it's answer, why doesn't it just Google like the rest of us? /s

Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#75

It doesn't help (especially Bing AI) is so restricted, politically correct, moralist, conformist.

Who would have thought that a machine would fail to bend it's computations to human sensitivites. Like someone who doesn't pick up on social queues that has to have all of their responses translated by someone who is overly-compliant. No corporation can afford to turn AI loose.

I get your point and I do agree but I don't think this kind of derogatory sarcasm is necessary to convey it.

Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#76
post #28

This article paints an overly negative picture. It's fairly obvious that AI is only going to improve from where it's at today, and the hyperbolic language about no one caring makes me less inclined to believe that the author is attempting to paint an honest picture. I derive immense value out of Gpt4 as an aid for coding, a search engine replacement that accepts open ended questions, a writing aid, etc. I know someon…

It’s suffering from extreme overhype pushed by OpenAI. They wanted people to think the human-led world was over and they were first to market on creating the new overlords. This soured them on a lot of tech people and ensured whatever they built could never live up. Still a great product and I use a chatbot everyday for work, but it’s just that a chatbot.

> extreme overhype

It's hard to gauge hype except retrospectively. We will know in 4-6 years if it was over hyped.

Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#77

The author clearly has an axe to grind, this is a pretty low quality article. He cites declining usage numbers of ChatGPT without any mention of school holiday, and he seems to be limited to considering ChatGPT as the only AI up for discussion. The stagnation of bing search is interesting to be sure, but that’s a far cry from damning these models to a passing fad.

Really? "school holiday"? If the primary use of ChatGPT is to help students cheat on assignments, yes, that would explain the dropoff. But if it is a world-changing tool that every company needs to sign on to, such an effect would be trivial.

Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#78
post #59

It really looks like ChatGPT suffered from some form of "initial over hype syndrome". I'm not underestimating it, actually I think the application of transformers to do what ChatGPT is capable of doing is something really impressive, novel and caught the world by surprise. I'm sure we'll find many equally impressively good applications for it. But people eventually found its limitations. And did it quite fast. People…

This is my experience. I was initially sceptical, then wowed, then stopped using it entirely when I found out how utterly wrong it was about something it really should have been able to do well. I gave it a programming problem I was having a hard time with, and it came up with the same incorrect answer I had. I explained which part of the answer was wrong, and why. It's response was to apologise, acknowledge that par…

Was this 3.5 or 4? 3.5 kinda sucks for anything tricky.

Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#79
post #59

It really looks like ChatGPT suffered from some form of "initial over hype syndrome". I'm not underestimating it, actually I think the application of transformers to do what ChatGPT is capable of doing is something really impressive, novel and caught the world by surprise. I'm sure we'll find many equally impressively good applications for it. But people eventually found its limitations. And did it quite fast. People…

This is my experience. I was initially sceptical, then wowed, then stopped using it entirely when I found out how utterly wrong it was about something it really should have been able to do well. I gave it a programming problem I was having a hard time with, and it came up with the same incorrect answer I had. I explained which part of the answer was wrong, and why. It's response was to apologise, acknowledge that par…

> I was initially sceptical, then wowed, then stopped using it entirely...

Similar as well in my case.

I think that my problem is that the core of its answers are extremely confident, and it's personally hard for me to switch into the "doubt"-mode when I read such a confident reply.

I still use it, but very very rarely, and only when I'm desperate to get at least some hints (and I'm therefore psychologically ready to doublecheck all infos contained in the answer).

Re: AI demand is already shrinking

#80
"The only areas where AI delivers the goods are spamming, scamming & shamming."

I don't know why such hyperbolic statements are being made. I still find chatGPT useful for example when I want to find something that I can only vaguely describe (TV show from my childhood) or when I need simple help (write function in excel).

Also I don't like AI and LLMs are used synonymously. AI is useful in medicine, agriculture, chemistry...

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