Like say, treating a program that shows you the next most likely word to follow the previous one on the internet like it is capable of understanding or repeating a sentence beyond this is the most likely string of words to follow the given input on the internet. Boy it sure is a good thing no one would ever do something so brainless as that in the current wave of hype.
It’s also definitely becuse autocompletes have made massive progress recently, and not just because we’ve fed simpler and simpler transformers more and more data to the point we’ve run out of new text on the internet to feed them. We definitely shouldn’t expect that the field as a whole should be valued what it was say back in 2018, when there were about the same number of practical uses and the foucus was on better programs instead of just throwing more training data at it and calling that progress that will continue to grow rapidly even though the amount of said data is very much finite.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Which is exactly what’s happening.
echodot@feddit.uk 6 months ago
The fact that it is useful technology though means they’ll always have a fullback. It’s not going to go way like bitcoin I guarantee it.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Bitcoin went away? It’s at like $67k today.
But sure there’s lots of data processing that’s extremely useful. That’s been the case for a long time. But anybody talking about “intelligence” is a con.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
GameStop also went up. It doesn’t mean GameStop is a good company that’s valuable to own, it just means that dumb people will buy things without value if they think they can eventually pass the bag to someone else.