alt Hacker NewsI don't think its as big of a deal as its made out to be. They are human after all and have overestimated the capabilities of LLMs. What's more important is that this signals product market fit.
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I seriously doubt their actual beliefs* have changed in the slightest. They just see which way the wind is blowing with public sentiment and are trying to do damage control.
*I doubt they HAVE actual beliefs. Their entire job is managing PR and convincing investors.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
No. This is a ridiculous take on the recklessness Altman and Amodei have stated. Both men flat out lied, kept lying and continue to lie about their numbers and capabilities. They have literally destroyed markets that aren't coming back anytime soon (consumer hardware). They should be held accountable, not let off the hook like "Oh well, they fucked our economy long term. Guess they're just human."
Literally fuck them and an oversimplification like this.
> They are human after all and have overestimated the capabilities of LLMs
They self-servingly overinflated the capabilities and now its coming to roost.
There are many humans without any skin in the game that accurately estimated the capabilities of LLMs.
It has nothing to do with "being human". This wasn't about finding "product market fit" either. It was about griftin' while the gettin' was good. That certainly is "human".
They are backpedaling because AI backlash is slowing down their data center builds.