Let’s be happy it doesn’t have access to nuclear weapons at the moment.
  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    AI summaries of larger bodies of text work pretty well so long as the source text itself is not slop.

    Predictive text entry is a handy time saver so long as a human stays in the driver’s seat.

    Neither of these justify current levels of hype.

    • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Go look at the models available on huggingface.

      There’s applications in Visual Question Answering, Video to Text, Depth Estimation, 3D recreation from a photo, Object detection, visual classification, Translation from language to language, Text to realistic speech, Robotics Reinforcement learning, Weather Forecasting, and those are just surface-level models.

      It absolutely justifies current levels of hype because the research done now will absolutely put millions out of jobs; and will be much cheaper than paying people to do it.

      The people saying it’s hype are the same people who said the internet was a fad. Did we have a bubble of bullshit? Absolutely. But there is valid reason for the hype, and we will filter out the useless stuff eventually. It’s already changed entire industries practically overnight.

      • chrash0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        the reactionary opinions are almost hilarious. they’re like “ha this AI is so dumb it can’t even do complex systems analysis! what a waste of time” when 5 years ago text generation was laughably unusable and AI generated images were all dog noses and birds.