Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go? Here’s Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, admitting to Reuters that they’ve plateaued: [Reuters] The…

I’m usually the one saying “AI is already as good as it’s gonna get, for a long while.”

This article, in contrast, is quotes from folks making the next AI generation - saying the same.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    391·
    3 days ago

    It’s pretty obvious that they will hit a ceiling.

    Quick buck is over. And now it’s time again for base research to create better approach.

    I really wish we had a really advanced AI with reasonable resource consumption within my lifetime. I don’t think it’s unreasonable as we have got really far in the last 30 years of computational technology.

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      153·
      3 days ago

      I really wish we had a really advanced AI with reasonable resource consumption within my lifetime.

      You only wish that for as long as it doesn’t happen. Have you looked at the world we live in? Such tools would be controlled by the same billionaire dipshits for their personal gain as all social media is being used already.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      The problem isn’t with the AI. It’s with how it’s being treated. It’s currently being sold as if it were general intelligence. Which it’s not. It should instead be treated like it’s a mindless tool. Something that is inert on its own. Useful for some things but only in a limited sense. Unfortunately the companies, who have spent millions of dollars developing these things, are trying to sell it as the “do-all” artificial intelligence that people have grown up seeing in sci-fi media. Which it 100% is not.

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Every company have always oversell their own products. This is not new.

        Coca Cola is also just a carbonated sweet drink and it’s being sold as happiness, socialization and the meaning of Christmas in a bottle.

        Companies oversell, it’s called marketing. It’s shit practice but it’s not nothing new.

        That does not make the technology worse (or better). Current AI technology has its uses. With a big problem in how resource hungry it is. But it’s fairly useful.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      We’ve come a long way in computing, but the computational power difference between a human brain and a computer is significant. LLMs were just a smart way to have computers learn pattern recognition. While important, it isn’t anything close to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is what the term AI usually means.

      • Homescool@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        Yeah.   AI may grind for a while but hardly anyone has put the current stuff to work, yet.   We will be feeling the benefits of what is released right now for a decade to come.   I am working on a very rudimentary application that will use ML at work and it won’t come out for 12 more months, and it hardly does anything but make the most obvious decisions 10m times faster than I can.   But it’s going to fundamentally change our labor model.

        There are regular folks applying amazing technologies that go way beyond content generation.

        The tech may grind but the application of that tech is barely getting its feet and should run hard for a decade.