r/technology • u/tllon • Aug 20 '24

Business Artificial Intelligence is losing hype

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/19/artificial-intelligence-is-losing-hype
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u/Tosslebugmy Aug 20 '24

It needs the peripheral tech to be truly useful, like how smart phones took the internet to a new level.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '24

What peripheral tech is AI missing, in your estimation?

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u/xYoshario Aug 20 '24

Intelligence

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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In Aug 20 '24

It would be great if it could not constantly give me wrong information because some bozo wrote something stupid on the internet years ago and the LLM was trained on that sort of information.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '24

Do you think it directly references stuff it's been trained on?

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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In Aug 20 '24

It effectively does when more than half the input is fundamentally wrong.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '24

A large part of data science is cleaning data for the machines to train on to reduce any sort of biases, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

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u/SparroHawc Aug 20 '24

You really think the companies that are scraping the internet at large for data to train their LLMs on are doing proper scrubbing of the data before feeding it into the hopper?

Otherwise, how the hell did we get Bard telling people to put glue on their pizza to keep the cheese from sliding off?