Mastodawn

i thing i’m struggling with is AI has crossed a threshold where it’s actually useful for work, gasp, but the discourse has been so poisoned by over-hype and fascism it’s hard to talk about

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filipa mv 1d ago

i would say the hype is about 12-18mo ahead of the tech; opus 4.6 is about as good as people said this stuff was a year ago

ie what ppl said was an urgent reality one year ago has actually finally arrived

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henry 1d ago

@phillmv another thing making it hard to talk about imo is that anyone who's successfully boycotted it for those past 12-18 months now has an extremely out-of-date perspective on its capabilities. so it adds up to three different alternate realities talking past each other quite a lot. like i still see people opposing it on the basis that it "doesn't work" when from where i'm sitting we have a _far_ worse problem that all the other problems still apply but that one less and less so

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filipa mv

@henry it’s still overhyped constantly. it’s a big struggle. hard to communicate that it’s still sloppy but useful