alt Hacker NewsYou're validly critiquing where it is now.
The hype people are excited because they're guessing where it's going.
This is notable because it's a milestone that was not previously possible: a driver that works, from someone who spent ~zero effort learning the hardware or driver programming themselves.
It's not production ready, but neither is the first working version of anything. Do you see any reason that progress will stop abruptly here?
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>> Do you see any reason that progress will stop abruptly here?
I do. When someone thinks they are building next generation super software for 20$ a month using AI, they conveniently forget someone else is paying the remaining 19,980$ for them for compute power and electricity.
People abstract upon new leaps in invention way too early though. Believing these leaps are becoming the standard. Look at cars, airplanes, phones, etc.
After we landed on the moon people were hyped for casual space living within 50 years.
The reality is it often takes much much longer as invention isn't isolated to itself. It requires integration into the real world and all the complexities it meets.
Even moreso, we may have ai models that can do anything perfectly but it will require so much compute that only the richest of the rich are able to use it and it effectively won't exist for most people.
> Do you see any reason progress will stop abruptly here?
Yeah, money and energy. And fundamental limitations of LLM's. I mean, I'm obviously guessing as well because I'm not an expert, but it's a view shared by some of the biggest experts in the field ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I just don't really buy the idea that we're going to have near-infinite linear or exponential progress until we reach AGI. Reality rarely works like that.
Not a huge fan of @sama, but he is quoted as saying: this is the worst these models will every be!
Puts all criticism in a new perspective.