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Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?

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Re: Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?

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Chat is perhaps the cheapest implementation you could ever build. It's a linear interaction, easy to test, and arguably the easiest to encode/decode (with a fixed set of inputs too). As an added bonus, it has a familiar, well-understood interface.

It is now but it hasn't always been easy to make a computer chat naturally like a human without using canned responses. Chess positions are a much easier interface to implement because it's a closed set and very structured (grid position + piece). But humans don't speak in chess moves so it would be difficult for us to speak to an AI that does.

Re: Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?

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Uhm… The boom in AI with LLMs wouldn’t have happened without about a decade of major focus on images (both generative models and DNN models that blew traditional image processing out of the water), and planning/optimization type problems (alpha go, chess, etc.). Seems incorrect to claim that chat starts every cycle.

Re: Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

A better answer: natural language is the programming language everyone knows.

> A better answer: natural language is the programming language everyone knows. And when you get into frustrating misunderstanding of details you end up using a programming language anyway. Natural languages are to ambiguous to be useful for specific things. We humans can resolve the ambiguities in our minds, or think we do, based on context. I think the anthropomorphization argument hits closer to home. I feel guilt…

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Re: Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?

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Not an actual pattern AI cycle in 2012 started with alexnet AI cycle in 2019 started with Stable Difffusion

Depends what you mean by 'cycle', I suppose. The current hype-cycle _really_ started with ChatGPT; that was the point where people started getting super-excited and declaring that it would replace all human work by next Thursday.

Re: Why Does Every AI Cycle Start with Chat?

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Not an actual pattern AI cycle in 2012 started with alexnet AI cycle in 2019 started with Stable Difffusion

Depends what you mean by 'cycle', I suppose. The current hype-cycle _really_ started with ChatGPT; that was the point where people started getting super-excited and declaring that it would replace all human work by next Thursday.

What? Diffusion has directly led to industrial artists pushing back against Studios, etc., from utilizing GenAI in their work to displace artists

Yeah, sure a bunch of clowns are talking about how ChatGPT is gonna take over the world meanwhile diffusion is actually making impacts on artists

Again, ChatGPT did not start the hype cycle this time it landed fat in the middle of the GenAI cycle and accelerated it

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