I disagree. The hype is wearing people down and making it think it's a waste of time but LLMs just came out a couple years back and even the trendline from the past decade (pre-LLMs) is up up up.

The amount of interest to explore this opportunity is worth it. The bubble is worth it. I don't think it's lost years, and even if it is, the technology is compelling enough to make the gamble worth it.

The fatigue of reading the same shit over and over again makes people forget that it's only a couple years. It also makes people forget how ground breaking and paradigm shifting this technology was. People are complaining about how stupid LLMs are when possibly just 5 years back no one could even predict that that such levels of intelligence in machinese was even possible.

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jay_kyburz 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm a massive AI skeptic, and I think the amount of money being spent is astonishing, but I really don't want to go back to searching the web the old way.

Asking Gemini _is_ just much better at finding you the answers you need, _and_ providing links for you to verify that information.

It will be a sad day when they start injecting ads, I really hope the foss alternatives catch up.

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Yhippa 2 days ago | parent [-]

I still don't trust the non-determinism of current LLMs. I feel like I can't trust the results unless they are very simple ones.

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ares623 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah. Everyone keeps comparing it to higher level languages.

But higher level languages were deterministic and reliable, allowing users to offload the cognitive load of the lower levels to the computer.

With LLMs you can’t fully offload the load, you need to keep a close eye on it which kind of defeats the purpose (IMO)

	▲	jay_kyburz 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's not really all that different from trusting some random post on stack overflow. You always needed to be a little skeptical. I'm asking the AI things that are easy to verify, and often ask it to provide web references. It's working well for me. I don't ask it about niche topics. I occasionally ask it about myself or my games and it's always funny. It's a good reminder how wrong the AIs can be.

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emp17344 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Of course fairly quick progress was made - a truly astounding amount of money was poured into this industry in a short timeframe. The thing is, now it’s clear that AI isn’t really valuable enough to justify investment on the same scale anymore.

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Yhippa 2 days ago | parent [-]

It feels like after people were still flush with cash at the end of the pandemic, reality hit and as people were profit taking from the market, LLMs seemed to emerge from the æther as the next best thing to glom on to. So now the hive mind dumped all their money into that and we are riding an incredible bubble.

So cheap gaming hardware in the future (similar to when telecoms over invested in transcontinental undersea fiber-optic cables)? What's the hangover gonna look like after this? What's the next grift?

	▲	ares623 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Quantum computing?

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chisleu 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

/agree

We are in the infancy of LLM technology.