Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
They were pretty cool when they first blew up. Getting them to generate semi useful information wasn’t hard and anything hard factual they would usually avoid answering or defer.
They’ve legitimately gotten worse over time. As user volume has gone up necessitating faster, shallower model responses, and further training on Internet content has resulted in model degradation as it trains on its own output, the models gradually begin to break. They’ve also been pushed harder than they were meant to, to show “improvement” to investors demanding more accurate human like fact responses.
At this point it’s a race to the bottom on a poorly understood technology. Every money sucking corporation latched on to LLM’s like a piglet finding a teat, thinking it was going to be their golden goose to finally eliminate those stupid whiny expensive workers that always ask for annoying unprofitable things like “paid time off” and “healthcare”. In reality they’ve been sold a bill of goods by Sam Altman and the rest of the tech bros currently raking in a few extra hundred billion dollars.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Now it’s degrading even faster as AI scrapes from AI in a technological circle jerk.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, that’s what they said. I’m starting to think you came here with a particular agenda to push, and I don’t think that’s very polite.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The person who said AI is neither artificial nor intelligent was Kate Crawford. Every source I try to find is paywalled.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I found a non paywalled article where scientists from Oxford University state that feeding AI synthetic data from other AI models could lead to a collapse.
zdnet.com/…/beware-ai-model-collapse-how-training…
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ooh an article, thank you
Kintarian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Look it up. Also, they were pushing AI for web searches and I have not had good luck with that. However, I created a document with it yesterday and it came out really good. Someone said to try the creative side and so far, so good.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I know what model collapse is, it’s a fairly well-documented problem that we’re starting to run into. You’re not wrong, it’s just that the person you replied to was agreeing about this.
Nice! I’m glad you were able to find something useful to use it for.