▲ | dr_dshiv 17 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The difference between hype and reality is productivity—LLMs are productively used by hundreds of millions of people. Block chain is useful primarily in the imagination. It’s just really not comparable. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | immibis 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> productively used This chart is extremely damning: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o... The industry consistently predicts people will do the task quicker with AI. The people who are doing the task predict they'll do it quicker if they can use AI. After doing the task with AI, they predict they did it quicker because they used AI. People who did it without AI predict they could have done it quicker with AI. But they actually measured how long it takes. It turns out, they do it slower if they use AI. This is damning. It's a dopamine machine. It makes you feel good, but with no reality behind it and no work to achieve it. It's no different in this regard from (some) hard drugs. A rat with a lever wired to the pleasure center in its brain keeps pressing that lever until it dies of starvation. (Yes, it's very surprising that you can create this effect without putting chemicals or electrodes in your brain. Social media achieved it first, though.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | OtomotO 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No, it's overinvestment. And I don't see how most people are divided in two groups or appear to be. Either it's total shit, or it's the holy cup of truth, here to solve all our problems. It's neither. It's a tool. Like a shovel, it's good at something. And like a shovel it's bad at other things. E.g. I wouldn't use a shovel to hammer in a nail. LLMs will NEVER become true AGI. But do they need to? No, or course not! My biggest problem with LLMs isn't the shit code they produce from time to time, as I am paid to resolve messes, it's the environmental impact of MINDLESSLY using one. But whatever. People like cults and anti-cults are cults too. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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