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AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over (fortune.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The telling lies part is not good, but I think the dream of AI is a servant (or slave) with unlimited potential that can solve, until now, unsolvable problems. Cure for cancer, sure that will be $10k a pill. Eternal life? Sure that will be 1 million dollars a years for all eternity. Robot army to protect you? Top of the list.
Question I have is, is the AI we see the same AI the teck bros see? Is there a public interface that is made to appear a little buffoonish so the masses can laugh it off, but the real interface is much much better?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Those things are being solved by other forms of AI, not LLMs. AlphaFold is about the most useful thing AI has done so far and it's not a chatbot.

    We get access to entertainment AI, but there could be different forms of AI in use in medical science that have nothing to do with image or text generation.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    AlphaFold's success seems to be largely linked to its use of attention-based architecture, similar to GPT, i.e. the architecture used by LLMs. Beyond that, they are both building on work in machine learning and statistics, so I don't think they are nearly as independent as you are making out.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, but LLM innovation now is not in more clever architectures, but rather larger and larger models with more training data.

    I don't hate the existence of LLMs but rather how they're being shoehorned everywhere and how much power is being spent for just a little bit better results.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I think the dream of AI is a servant (or slave) with unlimited potential that can solve, until now, unsolvable problems

    Yeah, that's the hype. The reality is that with current LLM tech, it's a slightly more capable text-prediction algorithm.

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