Besides novelty, the majority of AI I have used has just added extra steps to my work process instead of making it easier. Can we just stop already? It’s not a tool for literally everything and I’m tired of companies thinking it is.
Depends on your work, what you’re trying to do, and how you use it.
As a developer I run my own local version of Dolphin Mixtral 8x7B (LLM) and it’s great at speeding up my productivity. I’m not asking for it to do everything all at once but usually just small snippets here and there to see if there’s a better or more efficient way.
I, for one, am looking forward to hardware improvements that can help us run larger models, so news like this is very welcome.
But you are correct, a large number of companies misunderstand how to use this technology when they should really be treating it like someone at an intern level.
It’s great to give small and simple (especially repetitive) tasks, but you’ll still need to verify everything.
Unlike block chain, there is a solid chunk of new use cases to be conquered with AI. These might be very technical in nature, but for example, text suggestions on smartphones might already be done with AI, depending on your OS.
We already have text prediction that works more efficiently (from a power and computing point of view) by using things like trees.
There’s very few use-cases I’ve seen where AI is more efficient than an algorithm, and it’s mostly in areas where it does a bunch of tests/research/simulation inputs by throwing random shit at the wall that users wouldn’t normally try really fast.
AI is basically useless when you’re doing something that’s easily repeatable, because it’s easier to actually implement tools that use algorithms to do that kind of thing.
This always happens when something new and novel has “potential”. VC money has been funding loss-leaders for two decades and they wanna cash in on the next gold rush. Just like blockchain, expect to see this beaten to death and shoehorned into places it really has no real use. They’ll be a few really solid things that are found for it to do though, and it will excel in those places. Then we’ll all laugh about “remember when they thought LLMs were the next big thing? What a bubble that turned out to be, like pets.com all over again”
Besides novelty, the majority of AI I have used has just added extra steps to my work process instead of making it easier. Can we just stop already? It’s not a tool for literally everything and I’m tired of companies thinking it is.
Depends on your work, what you’re trying to do, and how you use it.
As a developer I run my own local version of Dolphin Mixtral 8x7B (LLM) and it’s great at speeding up my productivity. I’m not asking for it to do everything all at once but usually just small snippets here and there to see if there’s a better or more efficient way.
I, for one, am looking forward to hardware improvements that can help us run larger models, so news like this is very welcome.
But you are correct, a large number of companies misunderstand how to use this technology when they should really be treating it like someone at an intern level.
It’s great to give small and simple (especially repetitive) tasks, but you’ll still need to verify everything.
Hey, I might give Dolphin Mixyral a try. Do you know where I might install it?
Also, are you a web dev?
Just give it a couple of years for the hype/boom/bust cycle to complete, then it’ll settle down and people will start using the tech appropriately.
Yep, in the exact same was as blockchain: nowhere.
Unlike block chain, there is a solid chunk of new use cases to be conquered with AI. These might be very technical in nature, but for example, text suggestions on smartphones might already be done with AI, depending on your OS.
We already have text prediction that works more efficiently (from a power and computing point of view) by using things like trees.
There’s very few use-cases I’ve seen where AI is more efficient than an algorithm, and it’s mostly in areas where it does a bunch of tests/research/simulation inputs by throwing random shit at the wall that users wouldn’t normally try really fast.
AI is basically useless when you’re doing something that’s easily repeatable, because it’s easier to actually implement tools that use algorithms to do that kind of thing.
neural network tools seem really powerful for image filtering and video compression.
My brother in Christ, a LLM is a tree
That could explain why SwiftKey sucks now
Google and partners have been showing off some pretty cool use cases for Gemini, mostly related to GCP, at Next 24.
This always happens when something new and novel has “potential”. VC money has been funding loss-leaders for two decades and they wanna cash in on the next gold rush. Just like blockchain, expect to see this beaten to death and shoehorned into places it really has no real use. They’ll be a few really solid things that are found for it to do though, and it will excel in those places. Then we’ll all laugh about “remember when they thought LLMs were the next big thing? What a bubble that turned out to be, like pets.com all over again”