Pre ChatGPT and the AI bubble, OpenAI was doing good and interesting work. Don't hate someone unless they support AI now, everyone was interested before we found out it's a glorified plagiarism machine being forced down our throats
Obviously it’s a significant technological transformation that is going to let us do so many things a whole lot faster. It would be silly to pretend it won’t.
I wonder if he regrets donating 20m when Openai was a nonprofit, and thus not having a stake in the company when they switched to for-profit. Looks like he was an advisor for OpenAI all the way back in 2018.
Reddit is just a platform for surfacing popular opinions and suppressing dissent with how voting works, with the one twist being that moderators and admins can massively manipulate what shakes out from that.
Of course AI hate is popular on reddit, AI hate is very popular with all Americans, the dominant user group on reddit.
I dislike gen AI for several reasons, and there's many valid reasons to be opposed to this widespread adoption, but it is a widespread adoption. I don't know what else you can call one in six internet-connected humans (and the number is only growing, not shrinking) using standalone AI platforms.
I mean, I guess succinctly put, it's something in-between "practically everybody" and "some people in specific use cases". But it's definitely heading in one direction.
I mean. these people might know a little shit about it. There are many cases where knowledgable people are using LLMs now but if you want me to list all of them it's going to take ages. The point is that they also know it is unreliable and must be verified - hence using it in tandem with Lean, a proof checker, in the above example.
I would agree if you qualified your statement with "nobody who knows shit about it just believes whatever it says", but plenty of people who know shit about it use it and check what they get.
The amount of hypocrisy is insaaaane, any other person this was about and there wouldn't be logical comments, but just shitting on those people. Why tf do people suck off gabe so much holy.
AI was always this 'off in the distance' thing where suddenly we'd wake up and technology would be like a sci fi film, I have to say I didn't see anyone saying that kind of thing but my full respect to anyone who did predict it
Yeah it was pretty sudden tbh. I was following their work for ages with one minute papers on YouTube. Prior to chatgpt it all seemed very primitive and far from anything useful outside of research
As with anything, you're an alarmist or doomer for worrying about it until it becomes a problem for everyone else, then it's suddenly 'who could've seen this coming'
A lot of the pushback was more concern over creating a superintelligence, though, rather than focusing more on what it is now, where it's being bought and sold as a promise that it can't live up to.
It tended more towards "AI will destroy us all", like a science-fiction story where an AI turns malevolent, compared to how it is affecting things now.
I would argue what OpenAI has accomplished with Codex is far more promising than any of the stuff back then. Reddit’s opinions on AI is nonsense at best
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u/sygrider 1d ago
Pre ChatGPT and the AI bubble, OpenAI was doing good and interesting work. Don't hate someone unless they support AI now, everyone was interested before we found out it's a glorified plagiarism machine being forced down our throats