Re:AI Is Smoke and Mirrors
by skybrian on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:44PM
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The hype is the part where you start talking about the future. We have little idea what will be in GPT-5. OpenAI hasn't announced anything. Sam Altman does hype it up sometimes, in very vague terms.
> future models are world-changing
Possibly, but talking about what you imagine the future will be in the present tense is hype. That's not the future, it's speculation about one scenario. There are others.
There's been a lot of progress making models that aren't quite as good as GPT-4, or are maybe comparable. Why is that? Have we hit a wall? I don't know, but that's a scenario, too.
> future models are world-changing
Possibly, but talking about what you imagine the future will be in the present tense is hype. That's not the future, it's speculation about one scenario. There are others.
There's been a lot of progress making models that aren't quite as good as GPT-4, or are maybe comparable. Why is that? Have we hit a wall? I don't know, but that's a scenario, too.