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Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening

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Re: Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

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Re: Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening

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Post by david927 »

I watched the Google interview with Ilya yesterday and this came up. There's a large disconnect between the evals and the real-world performance, and he admitted that the evals are targeted.

There was a storm of hype the last couple weeks for Gemini 3 and everyone, correctly, rolled their eyes. Investors are demanding a return and it's not happening. They're just going to have to face reality at some point.

Re: Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening

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Post by gaius_baltar »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #3

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Thanks, I didn't know this trick! Perhaps soon we'll need to keep lists of per-site white-listed user agents...

Re: Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening

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Post by techblueberry »

david927 wrote: post #4

I watched the Google interview with Ilya yesterday and this came up. There's a large disconnect between the evals and the real-world performance, and he admitted that the evals are targeted. There was a storm of hype the last couple weeks for Gemini 3 and everyone, correctly, rolled their eyes. Investors are demanding a return and it's not happening. They're just going to have to face reality at some point.

I was wondering if AI was essentially the last hype cycle, that’s what it’s sort of been billed as, the tech that can do everything, but I guess robotics could be a next big thing to replace it, basically applied AI.

Re: Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening

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Post by htrp »

david927 wrote: post #4

I watched the Google interview with Ilya yesterday and this came up. There's a large disconnect between the evals and the real-world performance, and he admitted that the evals are targeted. There was a storm of hype the last couple weeks for Gemini 3 and everyone, correctly, rolled their eyes. Investors are demanding a return and it's not happening. They're just going to have to face reality at some point.

> Google interview?

did he do something other than that podcast?

Re: Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening

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Post by otterdude »

david927 wrote: post #4

I watched the Google interview with Ilya yesterday and this came up. There's a large disconnect between the evals and the real-world performance, and he admitted that the evals are targeted. There was a storm of hype the last couple weeks for Gemini 3 and everyone, correctly, rolled their eyes. Investors are demanding a return and it's not happening. They're just going to have to face reality at some point.

did you forget up is down and down is up?

Re: Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening

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Post by bsenftner »

techblueberry wrote: post #6
david927 wrote: post #4

I watched the Google interview with Ilya yesterday and this came up. There's a large disconnect between the evals and the real-world performance, and he admitted that the evals are targeted. There was a storm of hype the last couple weeks for Gemini 3 and everyone, correctly, rolled their eyes. Investors are demanding a return and it's not happening. They're just going to have to face reality at some point.

I was wondering if AI was essentially the last hype cycle, that’s what it’s sort of been billed as, the tech that can do everything, but I guess robotics could be a next big thing to replace it, basically applied AI.

The scheduled hype cycles have AI+genetics turning each form of life into a programmable platform after robotics.
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