I just imagine the world in which the industry defined by deterministic nature and facts has the bravery to call spade a spade. LLM's have a function. Machine learning also. But calling LLM's Intelligence and pushing the hype to overdrive?
I am a simple man. In 2022 I glanced trough Attention is all you need and forgot about it. A lot of people made money. A lot of people believed that the end of programmers and designers is absolute. Some people on the stage announced The death of coding. Others bravely explored the future in which people are not needed for creative work.
Aside of the anger that this public stupidity produced in me, I always knew that this day will come.
Maybe next time someone will have the balls not to call a text-generator's with inherent hallucination Intelligence? Who knows. Miracles can happen.:)
I am already on traditional phone and my iPhone is used only for banking apps in adequate scenario.
Moved my company away from macOS to ARCH.
Personally I don't have to wait to see the results of an systemic marketing and pr over product people approach.
Just read today Tim internal memo on The Verge.
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There was much to celebrate, from our remarkable new product line-up to our values driven work around climate change, racial equity, and privacy.