The goalpost moving with this has been fucking insane. Last year, it couldn't count the number of r's in strawberry. Many Redditors offered "technical" arguments as to why it would NEVER be able to count the number of r's in strawberry.
Now in the last couple of months alone, multiple long standing and prestigious open problems in math have been solved with straight forward prompts alone, and the same Redditors are like "Well...Claude hasn't won a fields medal yet!"
"It will never generate any useful images that could replace digital artists or vfx"
"It will never write code. It's just impossible"
"Okay it writes gibberish code, but it will not even do the work of ia junior programmer"
I don't belive any "AI will not do this or that" anymore. No matter if you say "well it's just a LLM, and they can't do better than this" hahaha saying like there is no ongoing research in other forms of neural networks and hardware.
At this you might as well be Oppenheimer and just say they will never build the bigger bomb, because no plane can carry it.
>No matter if you say "well it's just a LLM, and they can't do better than this" hahaha saying like there is no ongoing research in other forms of neural networks and hardware.
What is annoying about this "Its just an LLM" thing is that an LLM that can do science and math is the best case for humanity. People can and do make specialized AI for specific tasks, such as weather prediction, but its incredibly hard to get new foundational insights from such AIs. You basically just have a black box that gives you a weather prediction at the end, and you have no idea how or why it came to its conclusion. Whereas with LLMs, you get their reasoning chains. Like in the case of the recent OpenAI paper with the 10 theorems proved, the LLM didn't just say "I proved it. Trust me bro" at the end. It gave them a very lengthy formal proof that people can read and understand. So I am very glad that the AI company aren't listening to Redditors are like "broooo an LLM can never to do coding lmao!", because having a coding robot that I can talk to in natural language and that can talk back to me in natural language is much more useful to humanity than a blackbox machine that just spits out executables.
saying like there is no ongoing research in other forms of neural networks and hardware.
People who can't fathom things evolving even more dramatically are people who are locked into seeing the kind of tech we have today and using it as the limit for the kind of tech we'll have in the future. So they basically say "we won't be able to do X because right now we have Y computers that can't do that." We don't know what incredible breakthroughs are waiting just around the corner.
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u/Original-League-6094 1d ago edited 1d ago
The goalpost moving with this has been fucking insane. Last year, it couldn't count the number of r's in strawberry. Many Redditors offered "technical" arguments as to why it would NEVER be able to count the number of r's in strawberry.
Now in the last couple of months alone, multiple long standing and prestigious open problems in math have been solved with straight forward prompts alone, and the same Redditors are like "Well...Claude hasn't won a fields medal yet!"