Comment by JacobAsmuth
2 hours ago
All those stupid Bell Labs researchers not inventing Uber or Tinder. How come they didn't just build the obviously popular and profitable businesses that became possible once they invented the internet?
2 hours ago
All those stupid Bell Labs researchers not inventing Uber or Tinder. How come they didn't just build the obviously popular and profitable businesses that became possible once they invented the internet?
Compare that to Xerox, for example. Pretty early on, they had visions to replacing / enhancing largely "common" use cases (basically, everything that required printing a letter or sending an mail) [1]
I don't know if, at the time, people where doubting that it would be useful. (Practical ? Affordable ? Other legitimate questions.)
But here, the contrast between the promises ("it will cure cancer and solve climate change") and the demo ("it can cost you money on stuff you never asked to buy") is a bit telling.
But I agree that you can't expect the enablers to think of all the uses cases and applications.
Still, just so I know: what ARC-xyz score means the LLM has cured climate poney cancer, exactly ?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTOtty7ZVcA