| ▲ | ajkjk an hour ago |
| I think you're right, but I'd add that... if this wasn't obvious to you without being told, you should really question your worldview a bit. A lot of people think that chat.com is an AI called "chat". Most people don't know acronym "LLM". Most people don't know about the existence of companies called "OpenAI" or "Anthropic", or that they are worth a lot of money. Etc. |
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| ▲ | dd8601fn 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| The joke of it is that I see those same people (ones who haven’t heard “LLM” before, don’t know what a model is or even the vaguest idea how these work, etc) have very strong opinions on the state of AI, where it’s headed, and are willing to make projections with timelines. Bill Maher is one example. |
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| ▲ | abixb an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > you should really question your worldview a bit. Yeah, I still struggle with it. I have a diverse friend circle and sometimes I forget that most of them don't have the same information diet that I do (or don't even care about tech the way I do). Maybe I should be more like them and just chill? I don't know. |
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| ▲ | wredcoll an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | You don't have to "be like" anyone but yourself. You should, however, be aware of what you know and more importantly what you do not know. | | |
| ▲ | tough 23 minutes ago | parent [-] | | And be aware of unknown unknowns existance even if not specifics, helps uncover them | | |
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| ▲ | rr808 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Tech is a rather minor part of the world of knowledge. How many languages do you know? Do you know the styles of Renaissance painters? Slept with super-model? Ever seen an elephant stampede? Meditated by the Ganges? Read thousands of stories? Climbed a mountain so high you need Oxygen? Tech stuff is so boring. | | |
| ▲ | tough 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Slept with super-model What's the knowledge supposedly required to attain this on your mind? | | |
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| ▲ | ajkjk an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | well probably even your friends know a lot more than "most people". But walk into a random town and ask a random person and I'd wager they'll be about at what I described, on average. |
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| ▲ | ctkhn an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Even Shingy called chatgpt "chat" when he went on Ed Zitron's show. It was very weird to hear from a guy who has been around tech world for such a long time even if he's non technical. |
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| ▲ | King-Aaron 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm a pretty seasoned software dev, but I've also kept the frontier AI race at arms length from myself. I run Claude alongside my day to day workflow but don't really get overly concerned about the latest and greatest models, as I'm not leaning on it to do my job for me I suppose. In my mind I'm after a stable tool, not wanting to dabble in the bleeding edge. I did that back in the early days of web coding and have settled into a much more subdued kind of industry/life in that regard. | |
| ▲ | edgyquant 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Everyone calls it chat. I am technical and even I’ve come around to calling it that because that is what everyone, including very technical people, call the product. | |
| ▲ | sam345 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Even Shingy. Ia he really the standard for explaining tech to normies? Ouch. |
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| ▲ | fathermarz an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is very accurate. I teach seniors about how to use AI responsibly and they are always mind blown, and I keep it very high level. The amount of Chat”GTP” users there are out there that have no idea who the main vendors are. Most of them also think that Google is just a “search” company. |
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| ▲ | mathisfun123 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > OpenAI this is unnecessarily austere or whatever - people absolutely know what openai is because lots of "normies" now use chatgpt https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dRE41eYkui4 |
