So many top-level comments and replies here are so laughably wrong.
Pro tip: if you want technical info on research-related topics, don't ask HN. Tech bros can't handle telling themselves they don't know something, so everyone will give their "take" on the subject at hand.
>that basically means people that get attention from jumping on someone else's creative bandwagon.
That isn't what the term Andy means in the Twitch world. It's just a way to refer to the style of content that someone makes on Twitch. For example, a "React Andy" is someone who makes reactionary content, a "1k Andy" is someone that is stuck at 1k average viewership, a "Crypto Andy" is someone who is obsessed with crypto.
Almost everything stated here is simply wrong or misinformed.
>For example, I went to an AI talk about 5 years ago where the guy said that any of a dozen algorithms like K-Nearest Neighbor, K-Means Clustering, Simulated Annealing, Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, etc can all be adapted to any use case. They just have different strengths and weaknesses. At that time, all that really mattered was how the data was prepared.
How do you suppose KNN is going to generate photorealistic images? I don't understand the question here
>I guess fundamentally my question is, when will AGI start to become prevalent, rather than these special-purpose tools like GPT-3 and Dall-E 2?
Actual AGI research is basically non-existant, and GPT-3/Dall-E 2 are not AGI-level tools.
>Personally I give it less than 10 years of actual work, maybe less
Lol...
>I just mean that to me, Dall-E 2 is already orders of magnitude more complex than what's required to run a basic automaton to free humans from labor.
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