AI was expected to grow like a child. Somehow blurting out things that would show some increasing understanding on a deep level but poor syntax.
In fact we get the exact opposite. AI is creating texts that are syntaxically correct and very decently articulated and pictures that are insanely good.
And these texts and images are created from a text prompt?! There is no way to interface with the model other than by freeform text. That is so weird to me.
Yet it doesn’t feel intelligent at all at first. You can’t ask it to draw “a chess game with a puzzle where white mates in 4 moves”.
Yet sometimes GPT makes very surprising inferences. And it starts to feel like there is something going on a deeper level.
DeepMind’s AlphaXxx models are more in line with how I expected things to go. Software that gets good at expert tasks that we as humans are too limited to handle.
Where it’s headed, we don’t know. But I bet it’s going to be difficult to tell the “intelligence” from the “varnish”