• FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Those recent failures only come across as cracks for people who see AI as magic in the first place. What they’re really cracks in is people’s misperceptions about what AI can do.

    Recent AI advances are still amazing and world-changing. People have been spoiled by science fiction, though, and are disappointed that it’s not the person-in-a-robot-body kind of AI that they imagined they were being promised. Turns out we don’t need to jump straight to that level to still get dramatic changes to society and the economy out of it.

    I get strong “everything is amazing and nobody is happy” vibes from this sort of thing.

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      8 months ago

      Also interesting is that most people don’t understand the advances it makes possible so when they hear people saying it’s amazing and then try it of course they’re going to think it’s not lived upto hype.

      The big things are going to completely change things like how we use computers especially being able to describe how you want it to lay out ui and create custom tools on the fly.

      • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com
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        8 months ago

        Exactly, it’s the people who know that are amazed by the subtle intricacies of AI and the implications of it. It’s the people that don’t know saying, “I asked it to write a horror story about a killer clown, and it ended up sounding like Stephen King. What a rip off machine.”