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OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI

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625 points lukebennett | 3 comments | 13 Nov 24 13:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jmward01 ◴[14 Nov 24 20:04 UTC] No.42140562[source]▶
Every negative headline I see about AI hitting a wall or being over-hyped makes me think of the early 2000's with that new thing the 'internet' (yes, I know the internet is a lot older than that). There is little doubt in my mind that ten years from now nearly every aspect of life will be deeply connected to AI just like the internet took over everything in the late 90's and early 2000's and is now deeply connected to everything now. I'd even hazard to say that AI could be more impactful.
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1. woopwoop ◴[15 Nov 24 01:26 UTC] No.42143108[source]▶
That's funny, because to me these headlines about how deep learning is over-hyped and hitting the wall remind me of headlines from ten years ago about how... deep learning is over-hyped and hitting the wall.
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2. echelon ◴[15 Nov 24 01:56 UTC] No.42143277[source]▶
That was before people could generate animation and music.
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3. qnleigh ◴[16 Nov 24 21:42 UTC] No.42159607[source]▶
And essays for homework assignments that would get a decent grade, art for the headings of blog posts, rewrites of an email to make it sound more professional, summaries of long documents, or just generally to create something that gives the semblance that you did a lot of work while actually having done very little work.

And yes of course hallucinations are a huge problem for most of these use cases, but they aren't stopping people from using them anyway. We have a new misinformation problem and it has no agenda. It's basically just white noise.

So my money is also on this changing the world dramatically, just not in the in uniformly positive way that the hype said it will.