Ask HN: How real is the AI thing?
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Very similar post from last night with a couple comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34812656
Didn't notice that post, thank you!
It depends on where the tech is and what people do with it.
Transformers have only been around for like 5 years. and GPT 2 was around 2 years old. GPT3 is 6 months old.
stable diffusion can run on a GPU.
The question is where does it go from here. And nobody knows.
Transformers have only been around for like 5 years. and GPT 2 was around 2 years old. GPT3 is 6 months old.
stable diffusion can run on a GPU.
The question is where does it go from here. And nobody knows.
This sort of content is also implicating either implicitly or explicitly that if you don’t jump on that wagon (even as a user) you will miss out on great opportunities and basically be left out.
Lately there have been lots of breakthroughs in AI and there seems to be a booming interest in all of this hype, probably higher than ever.
Personally I am not that over-excited seeing ChatGPT interacting with almost every kind of topic, perhaps because I know these tools are built and polished by actual human beings and it is still error-prone and breakable. Not diminishing in any way the efforts from the creators, mind you.
If anything, these AI hype could be a signal of human dawn fall: once students start using these tools to write their essays, writers start publishing AI-generated books and getting paid for that, or scientists start publishing papers produced mostly by AIs, such tools will be the new normal and we may get dumber and dumber as a species because AI will do mostly everything for us. This is the most controversial point for me.
Is this AI boom for real? How much of a revolution is it?