Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
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Re: Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
#2Can't read the article. Does he mean it's a problem in search of a solution then? Or does he mean it's "the exact opposite of a solution, in search of a problem" (in other words, a problem in search of a problem)?
Re: Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
#3Can't read the article. Does he mean it's a problem in search of a solution then? Or does he mean it's "the exact opposite of a solution, in search of a problem" (in other words, a problem in search of a problem)?
I think what he's trying to say is it's capable of solving more problems than we think.
Re: Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
#4Can't read the article. Does he mean it's a problem in search of a solution then? Or does he mean it's "the exact opposite of a solution, in search of a problem" (in other words, a problem in search of a problem)?
Here's a link to the full quote on xitter.
"AI is the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem. It's the solution to far more problems than its developers even knew existed."
Re: Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
#5He seems to think that what we need (and want) is something to hand off to. We're tired. We don't want to do it any more -- for any value of "it". Actually we can't do it any more; we've reduced everything to performance, so it doesn't matter who carries the torch. AI may as well carry it; even if it drops it, it may do so amusingly, and what more could we ask?
Re: Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
#6It feels like we are well on our way toward the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner hype cycle for ChatGPT. It’s losing users daily. People are saying that it’s gotten worse since launch (don’t know if this is true but it’s what I’m hearing). As far as I know, it hasn’t revolutionized anything except spam generation.
Re: Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
#7It feels like we are well on our way toward the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner hype cycle for ChatGPT. It’s losing users daily. People are saying that it’s gotten worse since launch (don’t know if this is true but it’s what I’m hearing). As far as I know, it hasn’t revolutionized anything except spam generation.
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Re: Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
#8Marketers gonna market. Anybody remember all the "big data" hype?
ChatGPT and its ilk don't enable me to do something today that I couldn't do yesterday. Nor do they enable me to do something an order of magnitude faster than I could do yesterday.
Contrast this to when microprocessors hit. Suddenly, things like industrial control went from the size of multiple refrigerators to a PC board. When the price dropped (things like the 6502), engineers went absolutely bonkers building amazing things.
Re: Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
#9It feels like we are well on our way toward the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner hype cycle for ChatGPT. It’s losing users daily. People are saying that it’s gotten worse since launch (don’t know if this is true but it’s what I’m hearing). As far as I know, it hasn’t revolutionized anything except spam generation.
I wish people would just do some deeper investigation before forming opinions based on their biases. If you actually use it you know it's incredibly useful for learning, getting answers to general problems that 99% of the time work fine and it helps you understand those answers. The amount of times it's wrong or misleading is not significant enough to even be annoying during day to day use. Just talking about current practical usefulness here not even speculating about the future, just what it's useful for today.
Re: Paul Graham calls A.I. ‘the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem’
#10It feels like we are well on our way toward the Trough of Disillusionment in the Gartner hype cycle for ChatGPT. It’s losing users daily. People are saying that it’s gotten worse since launch (don’t know if this is true but it’s what I’m hearing). As far as I know, it hasn’t revolutionized anything except spam generation.
I wish people would just do some deeper investigation before forming opinions based on their biases. If you actually use it you know it's incredibly useful for learning, getting answers to general problems that 99% of the time work fine and it helps you understand those answers. The amount of times it's wrong or misleading is not significant enough to even be annoying during day to day use. Just talking about current…
> If you actually use it you know it's incredibly useful for learning, getting answers to general problems that 99% of the time work fine and helps you understand its answers. The amount of times it's wrong or misleading is not significant enough to even be annoying during day to day use. Just talking about current practical usefulness here not even speculating about the future, just want it's useful for today.
We used to just call that "a search engine". Remember that? Somebody would put up a website about their favorite pet topic and when the search engine unearthed it, that's what you got.
It was the ad-ification of search engines that killed that. So, AI allows us to go back to the Internet circa 2000? That's a big innovation? I mean, I'll take it, but that's a pretty low bar ...