alt Hacker NewsI am simply stunned at the negativity.
Yes, there is hype.
But if you actually filter it out, instead of (over) reacting to it in either direction, progress has been phenomenal and the fact there is visible progress in many areas, including LLMs, in the order of months demonstrates no walls.
Visible progress doesn’t mean astounding progress. But any tech that is improving year to year is moving at a good speed.
Huge apparent leaps in recent years seem to have spoiled some people. Or perhaps desensitized them. Or perhaps, created frustration that big leaps don’t happen every week.
I can’t fathom anyone not using models for 1000 things. But we all operate differently, and have different kinds of lives, work and problems. So I take claims that individuals are not getting much from models at face value.
But that some people are not finding the value isn’t an argument that those of us getting value, increasing value isn’t real.
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We're getting improvements coming out month by month. No reasonable person would look at a technology improving at this frequency and write a blog post about how we've hit the ceiling.
There was value in leaded gas and asbestos insulation too, nobody denies that.
You're blind to all the negative side effects, AI generated slop ads, engagement traps, political propaganda, scams, &c. The amount of pollution is incredible, search engines are dead, blogs are dead, YouTube is dead, social medias are dead, it's virtually impossible to find non slop content, the ratio is probably already 50:1 by now
And these are only the most visible things, I know a few companies losing hundreds of hours every month replying to support tickets that are fully llm generated an more often than not don't make any sense. Another big topic is education.
I have pretty negative feelings about all this stuff and how the future will be but also have to admit it's crazy how good it is at so many things I would have considered safe a few years ago before chatgpt.
There are a couple really disingenuous bloggers out there who have big audiences themselves and are "experts" for others audiences who really push hard this narrative that AI is a joke and will never progress by where it is today, it is actually completely useless and just a scam. This is comforting for those of us that worry more than are excited about AI so some eat it up while barely trying it for themselves
Yeah after reading the intro lines I noped out of this garbage blog (?). Maybe it's their SEO strategy to write the flat-out untrue incendiary stuff like "the technology is essentially a failure" - If that's the case, I don't have time for this.
Maybe they actually think this way, then, I certainly have time for this.
what I have time for? virtual bonding with fello HN ppl :)
Yeah, totally agreed - there is still far too little negativity in comparison to what is going on.