| ▲ | voidhorse 5 days ago | |
That linked comment was so eye-opening. It suddenly made sense to me why people who are presumably technical and thus shouldn't even be entertaining the notion that LLMs reason (and who should further realize that the use and choice of this term was pure marketing strategy) are giving it the time of day. When so many of the enthusiasts can't even get enough math under their belt to understand basic claims it's no wonder the industry is a complete circus right now. | ||
| ▲ | godelski 5 days ago | parent [-] | |
Let me introduce to you one of X's former staff members arguing that there is no such thing as deep knowledge or expertise[0] I would love to tell you that I don't meet many people working in AI that share this sentiment, but I'd be lying. And just for fun, here's a downvoted comment of mine, despite my follow-up comments that evidence my point being upvoted[1] (I got a bit pissed in that last one). The point here is that most people don't want to hear the truth. They are just glossing over things. But I think the two biggest things I've learned from the modern AI movement is: 1) gradient descent and scale are far more powerful than I though, 2) I now understand how used car salesmen are so effective on even people I once thought smart. People love their sycophants... I swear, we're going to make AGI not by making the AI smarter but by making the people dumber... | ||