Comment by brokegrammer
3 days ago
It's certainly a great thing that AI is improving (I use AI to write code daily myself), but I wouldn't be calling it impressive because it's essentially all about money and government backing.
At some point, the chickens are gonna come out.
I am still impressed by the fact we have found a way to feed data to matter and get human surpassing intelligence, that's a very unexpected advance
It’s not human surpassing intelligence though in my opinion. If we had the same constraints on that task then we would also come up with the idea of creating our own viewer and if, like the LLM, the knowledge to do so was embedded in our brain we would do it, it would just take longer because we can’t type as fast. So instead we would buy or compile a viewer since the problem is already solved.
IDK the models definitely do write qualitatively better prose (and better code) than the majority of people. If your definition of "human intelligence" is baseline performance of 0.2% of humanity it's certainly something else.
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> At some point, the chickens are gonna come out.
What does this mean ? AI will only get better and cheaper.
> essentially all about money and government backing
So is nuclear power, and once it came it didn't go away.
AI is cheap right now thanks to governments or VCs agreeing to lose money. I can use DeepSeek to code all day thanks to the CCP.
Nuclear power benefits everyone. Who does AI benefit apart from a few vibe coders and a small amount of knowledge workers?