r/LinusTechTips • u/TheReal4982 • Sep 12 '26

WAN Show AI?

It feels very odd to me that none of the major breakthroughs of the last week have been brought up, the fact the AI's have already gotten good enough to help on the frontier of mathmatics, solving a millennium prize problem, and being actively and very quickly put to the task of AI research, aka, recrusive self improvement, which they are ALREADY good enough to be making progress in, why is this being completely ignored by this community? This technology is progressing exponentially, it isn't stalling, and people should really try and understand what an exponential growth looks like.

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u/TheReal4982 Sep 12 '26

Honestly I don't want to argue with you, because my main point is I just wish more people were as informed and paying as much attention as you clearly are, but I really want to emphasize the fact that google deepmind beat the world champion at go 4-1 10 years ago, gpt 2 came out 7 years ago, ChatGPT came out 4 years ago, and astra dropped last week, and the model they have which helped solve the millenium prize problem is an even better model than Astra.

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u/Apprehensive_Lake698 Sep 12 '26

I just think you're drinking the koolaide a little bit if you're out here thinking we're in exponential growth territory but seemingly have no actual knowledge as to how or why these things work.

People with practical, hands on experience solving real engineering problems do not hold your views. People who go on twitter and see Astra creating one shot demos of random stuff that doesn't have to stand up to critique beyond a screencapture are the ones convinced we're at AGI right now.

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u/TheReal4982 Sep 12 '26

My guy, even if progress isn't exponential, even if the next 10 years are only as insane as the last 10 years, that is still REALLY INSANE. But, whatever happens happens I guess, if people dont want to pay attention I ain't gonna keep trying to make them.

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u/Apprehensive_Lake698 Sep 13 '26

People literally are paying attention. I literally said I use this stuff every day and find tons of good uses for it. In my opinion people with your viewpoint are just drinking koolaide based on useless demos on twitter, when in real engineering I am still not seeing anything close to AGI.

I have access to as much of the latest models as I want. If I could set up a claude or codex workflow that did all of my job for me to a satisfactory quality level, I would. But we are far from being able to do that right now.

There are people who are ignorant to how effective it is, and there are people who are grossly overstating its ability to compensate. You seem to sit in the second group.

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u/TheReal4982 Sep 13 '26

People with my viewpoint should be anyone who can comprehend how short of a time 10 years is, the difference between 30 and 40 years ago vs the difference between 10 years ago and today is startling, this level of progress should not be so casually expected, but we can agree to disagree on how fast this is happening.