alt Hacker News> The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.
I think he is being over dramatic. In the space of about four years, LLMs progressed from mediocre high school student to Ph.D. graduate in every field. That's impressive, but there is no evidence yet they can outperform or outsmart humans. Their biggest advantage for tasks such as proving theorems or long coding sessions is that they don't get tired.
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they dont need to be smarter than humans. They just need to be able to hack into vital infrastructure systems faster than we can repair them while also replicating wildly
> In the space of about four years, LLMs progressed from mediocre high school student to Ph.D. graduate in every field. That's impressive, but there is no evidence yet they can outperform or outsmart humans.
I mean, unless you see clear reasons for them to stop getting better _right now_, this is not very comforting.
I still have to correct Claude on very basic misconceptions whenever I get it to code shit.
Sometimes it gets wrong things that I had spelled out already.
It may be the Doomsday machine, but it is a very silly one. If it kills humans it will do so by mistake.
"You are completely right! Humans cannot breathe sulfur dioxide! My mistake, and I take complete responsibility"
> Ph.D. graduate in every field
I have yet to see this in my field. Maybe like a PhD student who bullshits their way through. LLMs still can't make correct decisions, only as useful as the person who uses them. To me, LLMs are only useful for making some mundane tasks faster.