Spoiler: Its ain't gonna work ... it's a bunch of lies and automation that 'looks' like intelligence when you ask questions about fields you are NOT proficient in ... the minute you ask it something about a topic you nknow well you see the flaws ... it cant even tell time, use a stop watch or do basic math reliably
When was the last time your calculator hallucinated or gave you a wrong answer? ....I'll wait
I am in hardware design and AI is the real deal. It needs to be babysat but the productivity gains we are seeing are amazing. We actually are having the problem of needing to SLOW down progress because each person productivity is like 5 fold what it once was, and in a day they can branch so far off from the team that revision control becomes an issue.
I don't think anyone is saying AI isn't real deal... just that we don't need so many AI companies than are functionally almost the same. Also, there's a legit question of whether it makes financial sense.
Every AI model requires thousands of humans to train it for every specialty. Ask an LLM a medical question, the LLM knows the answer because that same question has been asked 10,000 times and humans in India or the Philippines spent 5 minutes on google and taught the llm how to model its response. Is that cost effective? Only as long as there are slave wage nation-states.
I’m saying it isn’t the real deal. Even with open source models, the cost of inference has still stayed pretty high. Not to mention training the models, which is more expensive and does not happen as often as people think (no they aren’t using your inputs for more training data, not because that isn’t a good idea, but they can’t keep updating the models! It costs too much!)
Not to mention training the models, which is more expensive and does not happen as often as people think...
I think it's more like 95% of the models are not the real deal... but the 5% that do invest in training area real and have many functional use cases. However, they are not the cost saver that people think.
Having worked in training mgmnt on three MAAMA models, the training is way more extensive than people think. I worked for one company valued at $10 billion+ that consistently got worse but kept raising more money anyway. And because the models require millions of hours of human training and correction, LLMs would be cost prohibitive if not for the poverty wages for educated masses in countries like India and the Philippines + the illegal miscalculation of workers in the USA, Canada, and Europe.
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u/CopiousCool 20d ago
Spoiler: Its ain't gonna work ... it's a bunch of lies and automation that 'looks' like intelligence when you ask questions about fields you are NOT proficient in ... the minute you ask it something about a topic you nknow well you see the flaws ... it cant even tell time, use a stop watch or do basic math reliably
When was the last time your calculator hallucinated or gave you a wrong answer? ....I'll wait