Daniel JalkutAI is a technological inflection point. It's scary, but also exhilarating and fun to live through. Most of the world is as ignorant about AI as people were about personal computing in 1982. It's just breaking in to the mainstream, yet totally mysterious. IMHO, it's a good time to learn about AI.
Dismissal of AI technology today is akin to somebody in 1982 complaining that a Commodore-64 couldn't scan their photos. You need imagination to understand how different the future will be.
What's it to you?@danielpunkass My degree is in automation. I've read all the literature. Gradient descent is not pixie dust.
Large Language Models are calculators you need to negotiate with to approximate a correct answer. It is not a question of scale or resources. It is a question of state -- a thing they are, by design, not capable.
Unless you're discussing neuromorphic computing involving materials far beyond what technology can currently develop, there is no AI technology that resembles your argument.