Martin Modrák
Brutal, but IMHO quite likely correct:
"Sam Altman desperately needs you to believe that generative AI will be essential, inevitable and intractable, because if you don't, you'll suddenly realize that trillions of dollars of market capitalization and revenue are being blown on something remarkably mediocre." 1/2
https://www.wheresyoured.at/peakai/
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Have We Reached Peak AI?

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a 10-minute-long interview with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with journalist Joanna Stern asking a series of thoughtful yet straightforward questions that Murati failed to satisfactorily answer. When asked about what data was used to train Sora, OpenAI's app for generating video with AI,

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Show threadMartin ModrákMar 20, 2024
"If you focus on the present — what OpenAI's technology can do today, and will likely do for some time — you see in terrifying clarity that generative AI isn't a society-altering technology, but another form of efficiency-driving cloud computing software that benefits a relatively small niche of people." 2/2
Show thread0ddj0bbAug 12, 2024
@modrak_m hard disagree on small niche of people.
Show threadRaleigh StraightMar 21, 2024

@modrak_m Meanwhile, NVIDIA has figured it out: during a gold rush, the money's in selling prospecting gear.

If none of this pans out, they have a huge pile of cash and some incredibly powerful parallel processing technology that they can easily apply to whatever they want.

Show threadMalteMar 21, 2024
@modrak_m Is there are story about the trillion dollar funding? I almost can't believe they would amass so much money. If climate change had the same kind of fundraisers ...
Show threadThe ServitorMar 21, 2024

@modrak_m

Way too pessimistic, IMO. Perhaps not as it relates to the hype in business when it comes to adopting it and cramming it in to everything. The hype factor is through the roof. But wrong about both the utility of the underlying technology and the future potential. Just because it doesn't do what the marketing says (what does?) doesn't mean it isn't extremely useful in its lane.

Show threadNotAlexNoyle 🌻Mar 21, 2024
@modrak_m mediocre? The first time I used Dalle 2 was the most impressed I have been by a technological development in my entire life. Imagination manifest. Literal magic.
Show threadTHIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVEDMar 21, 2024
@modrak_m I disagree. There's plenty of there there. Just not the there some people think. We are at the very beginning of this deep technical trend.