• simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    812·
    2 months ago

    AI was a promise more than anything. When ChatGPT came out, all the AI companies and startups promised exponential improvements that will chaaangeee the woooooorrlllddd

    Two years later it’s becoming insanely clear they hit a wall and there isn’t going to be much change unless someone makes a miraculous discovery. All of that money was dumped in to just make bigger models that are 0.1% better than the last one. I’m honestly surprised the bubble hasn’t popped yet, it’s obvious we’re going nowhere with this.

    • bluGill@kbin.run
      30·
      2 months ago

      @simple@lemm.ee

      @technology@lemmy.world @tek@calckey.world

      ai has been doing that trick since the 1950s. There have been a lot of use coming out of ai, but it has never been called ai once successful and never lived up to the early hype. some in the know about all those previous ones were surprised by the hype and not surprised about where it has gone, while others pushed the hype.

      The details have changed but nothing else.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
        241·
        2 months ago

        Yeah the only innovation here is that OpenAI had the balls to use the entire internet as a training set. The underlying algorithms aren’t really new, and the limitations have been understood by data scientists, computer scientists, and mathematicians for a long time.

        • Frozengyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          2 months ago

          So now it just has to use every conversation that happens as a data set. They could use microphones from all over the world to listen and learn and understand better…

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        (Repeating myself due to being banned from my previous instance for offering to solve a problem with nukes)

        Bring back Lisp machines. I like what was called AI when they were being made.

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        74·
        2 months ago

        There are millions of people devoting huge amounts of time and energy into improving AI capabilities, publishing paper after paper finding new ways to improve models, training, etc. Perhaps some companies are using AI hype to get free money but that doesn’t discredit the hard work of others.

        • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          There are millions of people devoting huge amounts of time and energy into improving AI capabilities,

          millions of students who bought into the marketing bullshit, you mean.