I am not in the equally unserious camp that generative AI does not have the potential to drastically change the world. It clearly does. When I saw the early demos of GPT-2, while I was still at university, I was half-convinced that they were faked somehow. I remember being wrong about that, and that is why I'm no longer as confident that I know what's going on.

This pull quote feels like it’s antithetical to their entire argument and makes me feel like all they’re doing is whinging about the fact that people who don’t know what they’re talking about have loud voices. Which has always been true and has little to do with AI.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago

There's an earlier bit that complements that nicely:

"it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is highly transferable."

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