Comment by xg15
17 hours ago
And there it is again, the "powerful alien tool" that was just "handed to us".
No decades of research and massive allocation of resources over the last few years as well as very intentional decision making by tech leadership to develop this specific technology.
Nope, it just mysteriously dropped from the sky one day.
The point is that all that research mostly doesn’t help in mastering the tool. Unlike traditional tools, it doesn’t come with an instruction manual. It’s like an alien tool just handed to us in exactly that sense.
Do you know who is the author ?
It’s written in the title of the post “Andrew Karpathy” he’s fairly well known in AI circles, he was head of autopilot at Tesla, and co-founded OpenAI. If you’re curious to learn more about him, the Wikipedia page has a short summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Karpathy
It is even worse coming from him.
Yes, and I'm disappointed he seems to have joined the AI mysticism crowd.