Ask HN: Anybody else overwhelmed by the fast AI advances in recent weeks?

14 points·Freddie111··6 comments

Not happy with it-- more so the hype around it. I am sure there are really tangible gains in what we can now do and a lot of avenues opening up, but I can't help but feel like the hype train is making it out to be the end-all for everything.

Yeah it almost makes me want to have an internet break. Because of the FOMO effect as I work on humble programming tasks.

ChatGPT has been useful at work but it hasn’t made me 10x as fast. Maybe 5% and in the area of searching for information. Generating code is terrible: it creates plausible looking code with subtle bugs. Probably OK for API call examples though but nothing algorithmic.

That's probably because most people can't code algorithms in one shot either.

What if there was a text based debugger and you had it generate a bunch of test cases then had it iterate and try different version of the algorithms. from what I've seen it's not too bad at coming up with code changes based on errors and descriptions of the problem its running into.

this was pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dBq9sKTKTY

I was thinking the same thing. Because it is good at tweaking based on further responses. You can iterate using unit tests. Very interesting

I find it more depressing than anything. It's looking like short-term societal/economic shock and existential risk on the long term.

Nonproliferation is really hard to do with software.

Of course, it's also been nice having a semi-intelligent personal assistant and what sometimes amounts to better search.

I'm far from overwhelmed, but the topic is growing tiresome for me.

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