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Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’ (fortune.com)
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Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I reckon it’s somewhere in between. I really don’t think it’s going to be the revolution they pitched, or some feared. It’s also not going to be completely dismissed.

I was very excited when I started to play with various AI tools, then about two weeks in I realized how limited they are and how they need a lot of human input and editing to produce a good output. There’s a ton of hype and it’s had little impact on the regular persons life.

Biggest application of AI I’ve seen to date? Making presidents talk about weed, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I reckon it’s somewhere in between. I really don’t think it’s going to be the revolution they pitched, or some feared. It’s also not going to be completely dismissed.

Do you use it regularly or develop ML/ AI applications?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. I wrote my masters in engineering about MLAI (before chatgpt and YOLO became popular and viable), and am also currently working with multi-object detection and tracking using MLAI.

It's not gonna be like the invention of the modern computer, but it's probably gonna reach about the same level as Google, or the electronic typing machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use some image generation tools and LLMs.

I think it's a safe bet to estimate it will work out to be somewhere in the middle of the two extremes. I don't think AI/ML is going to be worthless, but I also don't think it's going to do all these terrible things people are afraid of. It will find its applications and be another tool we have.