Technology

I'm an old fart - I got my degree in CS in 1985, and I've been paying attention to the predictions and advancements in AI for a very long time. I have at least as much issue with the way people think and talk about it as the author, but probably less of an issue with it being called AI. Remember that for decades, the informal working definition of AI was "A computer doing anything that usually requires a human." So for ages, they said we'd have AI if a computer could read a page of printed text out loud in English. That seemed almost unattainable when it was first talked about, but now it's so trivial that no one would consider it AI.

People have tried to make definitions that are crisper than that, but few if any of those definitions requires anything we'd call "thinking." The frustrating thing is that the general public talks all the time about AI as if it's conscious . Even when we're talking about its flaws, we use words like "hallucinating," which is something only thinking beings can do.

To me, LLMs are the worst things because to so many people they seem like the are (or could be) thinking entities. They respond to questions in a lifelike manner and can construct (extrapolate?) somewhat novel responses. But they're also the least useful to us as a society. I'm much more interested in the Machine Learning applications for distilling gobs of data to develop new medicines or identify critical items in images that humans don't have the mental bandwidth for. But LLMs get all the press.

That seems like something that could be fixed pretty easily, as opposed to the AI stuff that's fundamentally flawed. You could even see it register the input, it just failed to actually pick up the call.

The neural wristband they demonstrated was actually extremely impressive and I can see a lot of different practical usecases for such a device.

Honestly I don't get excited about any new tech outside of FOSS spaces. Tech used to be made to make your life better and now it's almost exclusively used to exploit you.

Why they clapping, and laughing. Fuck Zuck doesn't test these things before hand? All those billionaires of dollars and it makes a fool of himself. What fucking moron. Well like Ron White said, Can't fix stupid.

How the fuck this dumbass get so rich?

Who doesn’t had an instance where the WiFi messed up a chatbot making it to ignore the instructions.

ChatGPT is a unstable connection away to become full Skynet, that’s why I only use it with the PC wired to the router.

lol, this reminded me of the MS surface parody. "Instead of using one of today's more popular compact devices to get directions to where you're going, why not use a device the size of a small car to do the same job?"

https://youtu.be/CZrr7AZ9nCY

Don't forget about "the Metaverse". You know, the thing he spent tens of billions of dollars on, renamed the company after, then promptly abandoned to chase AI grifting.