In a world where AirPods are ubiquitous, what value does such a niche product provide? Apple could easily add the same feature to something a huge number of people already own.
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#12why though
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#13Given the current idea of LLM's still struggle with confidently giving wrong information, all of these products are seriously misguided. (It doesn't help that "AI" has become such a blanket term in the last year or so that does "AI" mean "LLM" or more traditional purpose built AI).
It isn't clear to me that given the nature of LLM's can we actually solve this problem. It isn't thinking critically and never will without it being a different tech. (Someone correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like this is just a fundamental problem with this type of tech).
There have been very very few actual use cases of what we are now calling "AI" that actually seem to provide any real benefit. The only one that I find myself using on a daily basis is helping look through and summarize my personal notes. Something that the nature of an LLM is ver well suited for.
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#15Given the current idea of LLM's still struggle with confidently giving wrong information, all of these products are seriously misguided. (It doesn't help that "AI" has become such a blanket term in the last year or so that does "AI" mean "LLM" or more traditional purpose built AI). It isn't clear to me that given the nature of LLM's can we actually solve this problem. It isn't thinking critically and never will witho…
I agree. LLM almost-solve a traditional NLP task which text generation. Calling that intelligence gives the wrong idea about the tech application. That's no reasoning in generated text, what is amazing is that the output is linguistically correct.
Prolog, ontologies, computer vision, deep learning, classifiers, etc. all have been called AI despite being very different things and their inherent limitations. At this point AI is just a label thrown at the newest cool tech.
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#16The bubble is getting more irrational.. wonder when it will pop.
It will not pop, just be replaced by the next one. And pray the next one doesn't involve having lots of GPU farms too.
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#17Given the current idea of LLM's still struggle with confidently giving wrong information, all of these products are seriously misguided. (It doesn't help that "AI" has become such a blanket term in the last year or so that does "AI" mean "LLM" or more traditional purpose built AI). It isn't clear to me that given the nature of LLM's can we actually solve this problem. It isn't thinking critically and never will witho…
I agree. LLM almost-solve a traditional NLP task which text generation. Calling that intelligence gives the wrong idea about the tech application. That's no reasoning in generated text, what is amazing is that the output is linguistically correct. Prolog, ontologies, computer vision, deep learning, classifiers, etc. all have been called AI despite being very different things and their inherent limitations. At this po…
> what is amazing is that the output is linguistically correct.
Right, and I am not being critical of the technology to diminish this achievement. It is a great achievement.
But it feels like we have moved so far past it being "just" an "LLM" to already considering it a general purpose AI when it just simply isn't.
The problem is it fakes it enough, in enough situations, that a lot of people seem to come to the conclusion it is.
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#18When iPhone and Android phones incorporates local AI models, the 'AI Gadgets' junk hype fad will end in the same way flashlight apps go. 100%. Bookmark this and come back in 5 years. There are almost 2BN iPhones and Androids in existence and there is still room to innovate around mobile with AI. Why buy another gadget just for a single use case with AI when your phone already has the capability and power to run local…
Just like tablets became a secondary computational or recreational device for some, there may be another type of device that could find its way into our lives. I am optimistic about AR/MR glasses and AI pins as potential options. Perhaps a combination of the two could also be promising.