Mastodawn

This looks like an interesting take on the whole “AI" (IMHO its not AI and its not leading directly to AGI).

I've only watched this preview but it looks like it covers things from many points of view. The creator of the film
The AI Documentary: Or How I Becamean APOCALOPTIMIST.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPbV3IRe4Y

I'm also feeling like an Apocaloptimist around LLMs and Agents. At work we are finding LLMs great for intelligent document processing, and its totally transforming how we do software.

I'm pretty convinced that LLM/Agents (I refuse to call it AI as it isn't other than by the definition of AI in the 1980’s: “Any software technique we don't fully understand or is really new is called “AI”. At one point mainframe Computer Time Sharing was considered "AI”.

Oh, and IMHO, this is all going to lead to the biggest economic bust in history, but then leave us with all the infrastructure and techniques.

#AIHype

THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters March 27

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sean Mar 13

@rberger LLMs are to AI what those dangerous one wheeled electric skateboards are to hoverboards. And yeah I remember when computer controlled opponents in games were all called “AI”, it’s a long abused term.

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Robert J. Berger

@ssoper AI has been a very long abused term. I’ve been thru the previous “AI” Booms and Winters (well not the one in the 1950s when LISP was created). I remember hanging out at the MIT AI Lab in 1980, programming on LISP Machines. The saying even back then was “AI is whatever we don’t quite understand yet”. At one point Time Sharing computers was considered AI.

I don’t consider what’s going on with LLMs and Agents “AI” or is going to lead right to AGI. It might be a component of what eventually could be AI, but it’s also just another set of (very powerful) tools and techniques available to developers to create software cheaper, faster, better. But we’re just learning how to do that without breaking everything in the process.

It’s the AI Hype and the political / economic churn that the TechBros and Billionaires are fermenting that’s the real problem. That is also triggering some of the worst aspects of this (Over building data centers full of equipment that will probably be obsolete before they complete building them. IMHO algorithms and silicon will emerge quite rapidly that dramatically reduces the power consumption. Probably from China who is very incentivized and capable of routing around NVIDIA or the LLM companies.

Anyway I look forward to watching that movie sometime and see what their conclusions are..