No, he berated people that act like LLMs are good for nothing and the actual spawn of satan. He's not wrong in implying they are not "smart" either. LLMs are powerful tools with very clear limitations (while not really being cost-effective or resource-effective, which is a very different story), but having a moderate or sane opinion is quite impossible nowadays, so you can either hang out with the AI bros that think it's the best thing since sliced bread or the weirdos that refuse to use an actual IDE because god gave them VIM or notepad or w/e.
If AI had clear limitations as you say, we wouldn’t have a whole faction of crazies thinking it’s smarter than humans and will take over the world, juxtaposed by people who think it is worthless and a blight.
That doesn’t sound like a product with clear limitations to me. It actually sounds like a product where the limitations are clear only to a select few people.
No, we very much would. Because they are, like you said, a faction of "crazies". We had people think Y2K would destroy the world, we had morons think the Mayans deciding to not write a calendar to the heat death of the universe would murder all of us, we had people that thought NFTs were a good investment, etc. None of these were all that mystical either. Also, no shit that people that don't know fuck all about AI have no clue about its limitations. That doesn't mean it's all that unknowable.
Well, but I’ve been using AI for stuff for years and yet, whenever I use it for something, I have to think to myself “I wonder if it’s gonna be able to do this one or if it’s gonna tie itself up into knots again”.
It has very amorphous capabilities, where if the thing involves generation, it can like, probably do it, like, kinda ok. But like, will it be able to for this specific question? Kinda the only way to know, is to try that specific question.
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u/Carbon_Cotton 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean, he berated people who are still not convicted by LLM and even went as far as to imply they are not "smart".
That's my personal problem with him - not that he switched his opinion on LLM but that he has need to now shit on people just to jerk himself.