> The point here is different: when the thing itself keeps changing, evidence from older versions naturally goes stale.
Yes, but the claims do not. When the hypemen were shouting that GPT-3 was near-AGI, it still turned out to be absolute shit. When the hypemen were claiming that GPT-3.5 was thousands of times better than GPT-3 and beating all highschool students, it turned out to be a massive exaggeration. When the hypemen claimed that GPT-4 was a groundbreaking innovation and going to replace every single programmer, it still wasn't any good.
Sure, AI is improving. Nobody is doubting that. But you can only claim to have a magical unicorn so many times before people stop believing that this time you might have something different than a horse with an ice cream cone glued to its head. I'm not going to waste a significant amount of my time evaluating Unicorn 5.0 when I already know I'll almost certainly end up disappointed.
Perhaps it'll be something impressive in a decade or two, but in the meantime the fact that Big Tech keeps trying to shove it down my throat even when it clearly isn't ready yet is a pretty good indicator to me that it is still primarily just a hype bubble.
Its funny how the hype-train is not responding to any real criticisms about the false predictions and carrying on with the false narrative of AI.
I agree it will probably be something in a decade, but right now, it has some interesting concepts but I do notice upon successive iterations of chat responses that its got a ways to go.
It remind me of Tesla car owners buying into the self-driving terminology. Yes the drive assistant technology has improved quite a bit since cruise control, but its a far cry from self-driving.
Yes, but the claims do not. When the hypemen were shouting that GPT-3 was near-AGI, it still turned out to be absolute shit. When the hypemen were claiming that GPT-3.5 was thousands of times better than GPT-3 and beating all highschool students, it turned out to be a massive exaggeration. When the hypemen claimed that GPT-4 was a groundbreaking innovation and going to replace every single programmer, it still wasn't any good.
Sure, AI is improving. Nobody is doubting that. But you can only claim to have a magical unicorn so many times before people stop believing that this time you might have something different than a horse with an ice cream cone glued to its head. I'm not going to waste a significant amount of my time evaluating Unicorn 5.0 when I already know I'll almost certainly end up disappointed.
Perhaps it'll be something impressive in a decade or two, but in the meantime the fact that Big Tech keeps trying to shove it down my throat even when it clearly isn't ready yet is a pretty good indicator to me that it is still primarily just a hype bubble.