Comment by namaria
21 days ago
Frankly the "this didn't exist before" and extend-the-line "it will keep getting better" is not only bad reasoning, it's getting tired.
Yeah transformers doing NLP well is pretty impressive. No, it is not worth burning hundreds of billions of dollars on GPU data centers. And please, stop the hype. Non-technical decision makers are really spoiling everything with magical thinking about "artificial intelligence". We still have to learn domains and engineer products. There is no silver bullet.
I don't know whom you're replying to, but it doesn't seem to be to my comment. It feels like you skimmed my comment and then replied to a straw man.
> To me, "AI is the letdown" is the letdown. The sheer lack of imagination and wonder you must have to see what are almost virtual people, something that was _unthinkable_ five years ago, and to say it's a letdown, I will never understand.
> jaw-droppingly amazing
Did I imagine you said these things?
It is worth burning hundreds of billions, because users are demanding it and getting value from it.
Grok has already overloaded their 200k GPU cluster and is struggling to keep up with the demand.