At some point in the future, we will have AI that is more generally useful than current LLMs. If and when we have truly general purpose AI, it could benefit humanity in countless ways

– You. Just now.

Nice goalpost move.

“In the future, “AI” will be a completely different technology”.

Lol, why do I even bother discussing things with techbros… Spare the “insults” part, you’re the one who started that.

Wow, I’m very impressed. Reads like billionaire’s wiki page.

Analogy absolutely works. The pig could not walk when it was born, now it can. Which means that next year it’ll fly.

Exactly the same type predictions are advertised for LLMs. It can’t count to 10, but a text predictor will be able to find cure for cancer.

If you’re as smart as you claim you are, you’d go read a few papers on the limitations of the technology as a whole. “It will get better” / “It’s in its infancy” is just pure bullshit. There will be optimizations and gains here and there. But the core technology is not capable of producing what is being promised.

Pig will not fly, I’m affraid, even though it might be able to make do a hop next year.

It seems that youre just a really dumb and uneducated person. I feel bad for you.

Now that we’ve got ad-hominems out of the way, let’s get back on the topic.

Damn, I really thought I explained the self-driving thing, but it just bounced off you, didn’t it. Reaping the effects of AI so soon, huh.

If we only ever evaluated technology on its present state of being, we wouldn’t have planes for instance. That’s not a really sound methodology. “It doesn’t work now. Therefore, it should be abandoned.” Like, what?

If you think that’s how design and engineering works, you’re either 12, or really into LLMs.

Look, I’ll put it really simply for you. I know that if I throw a ball forwards, it will land in front of me. I call predict it, and I can calculate it. It’s based on established laws of physics.

If people, who want to sell me a pig, tell me it’s going to fly next year after I buy it, based on the fact that it learned to walk, that is not a prediction based “on sound methodology”.

Enjoy your slop, it’s not going to get any better, and it’s going to get ALOT more expensive very soon. That’s a prediction, after evaluating current technology.

Wow, even a personal anecdote! That’s, like, irrefutable! (since you didn’t really understand what I’m saying, I’ll clarify - this was a Musk/Tesla reference)

Listen, next year I’m curing cancer and solving world hunger, thus making ““AI”” obsolete. Care to invest?

Until then, it’s best if we evaluate technology at its current standing. Which is garbage generator that requires way too much resources.

Sure you do. In your colony on Mars.
How fucking gullible can you get, jfc.

Full self driving next year.

“AI” is garbage generator, that consumes our resources to output mediocre slop. Case in point is your PFP.

It’s neither “trendy” nor “cool”, just common opinion, as more and more people get to try it and see how useless it actually is, for anything beyond average (often empirically wrong) output.

Objectively + smarter, huh.