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Comment by Hedepig | Hacker News Reader

Despite all the (legitimate) criticisms, I still don't understand how some people are not impressed by what has been achieved by OpenAI.

I agree, it's far from perfect, but as a tool it's certainly usable and useful, with quite fascinating emergent behaviour.

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I think it's quite amusing that despite being a "only" a language model that generates text by prediction, it's so good at it that it successfully tricks people into believing it's some kind of AGI that can figure out the "real" answer to anything and do any task and then when it inevitably "fails" a task, people say it's dumb.

But I do agree that for people who understand how it works, it's a bit weird not to be impressed that a language model has the ability to have such good understanding of things and such intriguing capabilities when it's fundamentally just predicting the next token.

I don't think that AGI is binary. It's a (very difficult to measure) scale, the tech that OpenAI produced has brought us further along that scale in my opinion.

I agree, it is something new and refreshing, I consult it frequently on random matters out of curiosity.

It appears it can pass faculty tests, but lets keep in mind you do not need a 100/100 accuracy for that, but in business apps like in fintech, you better deliver 100/100.

So far, it is concatenating google search results and displays that in readable manner.

Co-pilot comes up with better code so far.

I am curious to see where this is going, there must be a plan to monetize, this launch and media presence cannot be explained away differently.

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