alt Hacker NewsEvery single day now, for close to 4 years, ever since ChatGPT 3.5 was released - there's been people dismissing AI progress. Every step of the way.
It is entirely possible that one day progress just stops or slows down, but with current evidence, I don't find that too likely - at least not in the near future. The sheer amount of resources being put into this (AI) race is mind-boggling.
So while past performance does not guarantee future results, I'm just going to kick back, and assume that many of the current issues will be fixed with future models.
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YeGoblynQueenne • today at 12:52 PM
OP is not dismissing AI progress, they're saying there's been no progress in writing better.
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scuppernong • today at 12:42 PM
Doesn't address my point at all and I did not dismiss AI progress.
The progress is clearly not uniform though, it’s shaped by how amenable things are to collecting data and verifying computation. I think writing clear and cogent prose is harder to quantify than formally verifiable logic, and this is why progress in coherent communication has been slower than raw problem solving ability
Maybe this is just a matter of what model developers choose to invest training resources in, but I don’t think it’s inevitable unless clarity is made a higher priority