I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype
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I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype
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#2> In technology, AI is currently the new big hype. Before AI, it was "The Cloud", which unfortunately has still not settled, but are now also being interwoven with AI.
I envy being able to write a statement like this without mentioning The Blockchain.
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#3It just wouldn’t be a solid rant against Big Tech hype cycles like AI and spellcheckers without using the word sheeple.
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#4How delightfully contrarian.
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#5There's three types of people w.r.t hype: smart people who resist hype, smart people who want to profit off of it, and dumb people who like it.
The first type of person already agrees with you. The second type knows but doesn't care. The third isn't going to read this article.
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#7Sure there's plenty of hype. But its justified to some extent at least. LLMs are one of the biggest advances in technology in human history. In computing the big ones are:
* creation of computers
* personal computers
* the Internet and world wide web
* LLMs
So the hype is at some level entirely warranted - its a revolutionary technology with real impact. As opposed to for example the hype around crypto or NFTs or blockchain or garbage like that.
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#8Rather, let's look for things in tech that never hyped but are very useful.
If hype is bad, then there must be something good, and unhyped to such high proportions. Something unhypable.
Otherwise it's all crap, isn't it? It can't be like that.
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#9find the only 10% is real part interesting. I'm starting to note two distinct camps emerge I think? Transformer architectures are just search (/bad search) vs they are the first commercial grade compression of language into real vectors. The trap I think is it's somewhat subtle in how they discuss things?
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#10There's three types of people w.r.t hype: smart people who resist hype, smart people who want to profit off of it, and dumb people who like it. The first type of person already agrees with you. The second type knows but doesn't care. The third isn't going to read this article.
Fourth type: smart people who like hype because hype is fun and having fun is good.