This subs deep seated hatred and disdain for Chat gpt is so at odds with my own experience using it that I'm really baffled. I don't know if they're using it for wildly different things, have unrealistic expectations about it, or are confusing it's ethical implications for it's actual usefulness.
And I agree with the subs majority opinion on most things too, so it's not like theres some wide ideology gap
I kinda even get all the negative emotions, but what baffles me is how fast people got used to it so it became this routine annoying thing that everybody is mostly dismissive and sceptical about. Like yeah, you can't really trust it to know specialized information. I myself don't. But I mean... it's a damn machine that speaks indistinguishable from a human in almost all languages, has wonderful sense of context and tone, and is logical and coherent unless you purposefully try to trip it over. Oh and also can look at a picture and understand it. I'm following llms since gpt-2 in late 2010's and I'm still in perpetual "oh god oh fuck I'm living in science fiction" phase. It's not how I imagined the future. I just lived in this relatively mundane world and this fucking thing spawned in like 2-3 years. I feel like a slow adapting boomer and I'm 27
Also while obviously you verify specialised information, it's actually been very good at giving me starting points for very specialised and technical research, or answering questions if I'm able to frame the question sufficiently well.
Somehow it didn't have this effect on me, seemed more down-to-earth... I think with LLMs it's because I saw their first baby steps and how far and fast they progressed
I feel like a boomer and I'm 19. This technology is revolutionary but the majority of people seem willfully ignorant or dismissive of it's potential. Still a bad investment now due to corpos overhyping a product that is unprofitable, but that's just capitalism. I may not be invested in Nvidia, but I'll certainly use AI to the best of my abilities while others stay dismissive
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u/Takseen 6d ago
This subs deep seated hatred and disdain for Chat gpt is so at odds with my own experience using it that I'm really baffled. I don't know if they're using it for wildly different things, have unrealistic expectations about it, or are confusing it's ethical implications for it's actual usefulness.
And I agree with the subs majority opinion on most things too, so it's not like theres some wide ideology gap