I don’t think they were really trying, it was just an easy way to get funds no?
simple@lemm.ee 2 months ago
AI was a promise more than anything. When ChatGPT came out, all the AI companies and startups promised exponential improvements that will chaaangeee the woooooorrlllddd
Two years later it’s becoming insanely clear they hit a wall and there isn’t going to be much change unless someone makes a miraculous discovery. All of that money was dumped in to just make bigger models that are 0.1% better than the last one.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
bamboo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
There are millions of people devoting huge amounts of time and energy into improving AI capabilities, publishing paper after paper finding new ways to improve models, training, etc. Perhaps some companies are using AI hype to get free money but that doesn’t discredit the hard work of others.
henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Can’t believe you get downvoted for saying that. No worries though as they will all be proven wrong eventually.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are millions of people devoting huge amounts of time and energy into improving AI capabilities,
millions of students who bought into the marketing bullshit, you mean.
henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You should all see the story about the invention blue LEDs. No one believed that it could work except some japanese guy (Shuji Nakamura) who kept working on it despite his company telling him to stop working on it. No one believed it could ever be solved despite being so close.
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 months ago
I mean if you ignore all the papers that point out how dubious the gen AI benchmarks are, then it is very impressive.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There is a difference in not knowing how to do a thing and someone coming out doing the thing, and knowing how something works, knowing it’s by design limitations, and still hoping it may work out.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mwahahah. The people who are working on LLMs right now are the dumbasses and MBAs of the industry. If we ever get anything like an artificial general AI, it will come from a team of serious researchers / engineers who don’t give a shit about marketing.