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We're Living Through the AI Utopia and Can't See It

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> When one of Google's own engineers went public saying LaMDA was disturbingly capable, he was dismissed as confused and then fired.

Blake Lemoine claimed that it was sentient. That's quite a stretch from "disturbingly capable"

https://nitter.net/i/article/2073375047939395671

'Use this or get left behind, except not really'; much utopic, wow

The reason it's free is not because they want you to have it for free. It's heavily subsidized limited trial period. The limits are still generous enough to be useful, but that might change when the need for profit gets bigger.

Is this available on a non-broken platform?

Twitter site just says „oops something went wrong“. And nitter doesn’t load anything either

Unless the title is sarcasm, I highly doubt the article is worth reading

I know your comment wasn't. What do you feel you're bringing to the conversation? Are HN readers going to see your comment and say “Good thing this anonymous rando spoke up or I would have wasted my time!”

I'd argue what little I'm bringing to the conversation is still more substantial than anything in the article, which seems downright delusional to me.

https://nitter.net/i/article/2073375047939395671

Replace 'x' with 'X'cancel in the url.

I feel this, and simultaneously something strange with it

This is something incredible that has developed and I feel like I am creating less software with it than before AI, not sure why, and although I know these tools are available 24/7 (besides rate limits) I still find myself going to them less than I would think as relates to their usefulness

I think that may be because of personal reasons but also because the bottleneck here might be motivation or something: what should I even create? I can complete a backlog of things I haven't gotten to, but still... what next?

There's also something of a lack of people using AI according to some old chart (probably more people using it now, but how intelligently?) - it's still maybe a tool a lot of us don't know how to use. It's maybe like a superpower dropped at our feet but without a manual on what to do with the superpower (even though you can ask the superpower what to do with the superpower and for tools to learn to use the superpower).

Anyway, it's been strangely not what we expected at all so far

Da, comrade, the utopia will be achieved whether the unwashed masses want it or not.

We need a moratorium on prometheus and prometheus-related metaphors, references, and general self-aggrandizing hobgoblinery. It was worn to the bone by 2015.

Everyone knows this is all bullshit, right?

Borderline delusional.

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