alt Hacker News>Because I’ve been told that Fable can do anything
I hear some version of this anecdote constantly
yet despite using all these prompting tools since 2019 I have never once heard a lab or professional say “x model can do anything”
Can you provide me whatever specific source you heard for this?
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It’s hyperbolic and intended to generalize the sentiment I perceive from others.
Dario Amodei said in January that he expected software engineers to be replaced [0], so I suppose the quote should be extended to “can do anything… a software engineer can do”
And I think we can all agree that SWE is on the more complex end of all white collar jobs. So, my thinking is that if SWE can hypothetically be replaced, so can many other jobs. Hence, the claim the models can “do anything” intending to capture the majority of white collar work.
This, of course, is if you take their claim at face value - which I certainly do not.
[0] https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-ceo-says-softw...
>I have never once heard a lab or professional say “x model can do anything”
Yeah, they "merely" say that they're about to break the singularity in a couple of years, that it's too capable to be safe to release, that it's going to take 50% (or all, depening on the day and audience) of programmers out of work, that it's smarter than Nobel prize winners, that their programmers don't write anything themselves anymore, and things to that effect.