Several OpenAI people said in 2023 that they were surprised by the acceptance of the public. Because they thought that LLMs were not so impressive.

The public has now caught up with that view. Familiarity breeds contempt, in this case justifiably so.

EDIT: It is interesting that in a submission about Sutskever essentially citing Sutskever is downvoted. You can do it here, but the whole of YouTube will still hate "AI".

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Jyaif 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

> in this case justifiably so

Oh please. What LLMs are doing now was complete and utter science fiction just 10 years ago (2015).

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bgwalter 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Why would the public care what was possible in 2015? They see the results from 2023-2025 and aren't impressed, just like Sutskever.

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deadbabe 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Not really.

Any fool could have anticipated the eventual result of transformer architecture if pursued to its maximum viable form.

What is impressive is the massive scale of data collection and compute resources rolled out, and the amount of money pouring into all this.

But 10 years ago, spammers were building simple little bots with markov chains to evade filters because their outputs sounded plausibly human enough. Not hard to see how a more advanced version of that could produce more useful outputs.

	▲	Workaccount2 25 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Any fool could have seen self driving cars coming in 2022. But that didn't happen. And still hasn't happened. But if it did happen, it would be easy to say "Any fool could have seen this coming in 2012 if they were paying attention to vision model improvements" Hindsight is 20/20.
	▲	free_bip 28 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I guess I'm worse than a fool then, because I thought it was totally impossible 10 years ago.