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>>davidb+(OP)
Ilya booted him https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294

>>johnwh+Uc1
Jeremy Howard called ngmi on OpenAI during the Vanishing Gradients podcast yesterday, and Ilya has probably been thinking the same: LLM is a dead-end and not the path to AGI.

https://twitter.com/HamelHusain/status/1725655686913392933

>>dwd+zL1
Did we ever think LLMs were a path to AGI...? AGI is friggin hard, I don't know why folks keep getting fooled whenever a bot writes a coherent sentence.

>>erhaet+1O1
It's mostly a thing among the youngs I feel. Anybody old enough to remember the same 'OMG its going to change the world' cycles around AI every two or three decades knows better. The field is not actually advancing. It still wrestles with the same fundamental problems they were doing in the early 60s. The only change is external, where computer power gains and data set size increases allow brute forcing problems.

>>Rugged+9P1
> The field is not actually advancing.

Uh, what do you mean by this? Are you trying to draw a fundamental science vs engineering distinction here?

Because today's LLMs definitely have capabilities we previously didn't have.

>>concor+T42
They don't have 'artificial intelligence' capabilities (and never will).

But it is an interesting technology.

>>oska+372
They can be the core part of a system that can do a junior dev's job.

Are you defining "artificial intelligence" is some unusual way?

>>concor+y72
If by “junior dev”, you mean “a dev at a level so low they will be let go if not promoted”, then I agree.

I’ve watched my coworkers try to make use of LLMs at work, and it has convinced me the LLM’s contributions are well below the bar where their output is a net benefit to the team.

>>hedora+Lb2
It works pretty well in my C++ code. Context: modern C++ with few footguns, inside functions with pretty-self-explanatory names.

I don't really get the "low bar for contributions" argument because GH Copilot's contributions are too small-sized for there to even be any bar. It writes the obvious and tedious loops and other boilerplate so I can focus on what the code should actually do.