Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated::undefined
Over half of tech industry workers have seen the “great demo -> overhyped bullshit” cycle before.
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Once we’re able to synergize the increased throughput of our knowledge capacity we’re likely to exceed shareholder expectation and increase returns company wide so employee defecation won’t be throttled by our ability to process sanity.
No SQL, block chain, crypto, metaverse, just to name a few recent examples.
AI is overhyped, but it is, so far, more useful than any of those other examples, though.
Every year sometimes.
It is overrated. At least when they look at AI as some sort of brain crutch that redeems them from learning stuff.
My boss now believes he can “program too” because he let’s ChatGPT write scripts for him that more often than not are poor bs.
He also enters chunks of our code into ChatGPT when we issue bugs or aren’t finished with everything in 5 minutes as some kind of “Gotcha moment”, ignoring that the solutions he than provides don’t work.
Too many people see LLMs as authorities they just aren’t…
Many areas of machine learning, particularly LLMs are making impressive progress but the usual ycombinator techbro types are over hyping things again. Same as every other bubble including the original Internet one and the crypto scams and half the bullshit companies they run that add fuck all value to the world.
The cult of bullshit around AI is a means to fleece investors. Seen the same bullshit too many times. Machine learning is going to have a huge impact on the world, same as the Internet did, but it isn’t going to happen overnight. The only certain thing that will happen in the short term is that wealth will be transferred from our pockets to theirs. Fuck them all.
I skip most AI/ChatGPT spam in social media with the same ruthlessness I skipped NFTs. It isn’t that ML doesn’t have huge potential but most publicity about it is clearly aimed at pumping up the market rather than being truly informative about the technology.
I work in AI, and I think AI is overrated.
It is currently overhyped and so much of it just seems to be copying the same 3 generative AI tools into as many places as possible. This won’t work out because it is expensive to run the AI models. I can’t believe nobody talks about this cost.
Where AI shines is when something new is done with it, or there is a significant improvement in some way to an existing model (more powerful or runs on lower end chips, for example).
Because it is?
Overrated? Compared to what AGI that does not exist yet? Overhyped though? Absolutely.
We went from very little AI content making its way to your eyeballs and ears, to it occurring daily if not during your very session here today. So many thumbnails and writeups have used AI that to say it is overrated it a bit absurd unless you were expecting it to be be AGI, then yes the AI today is overrated, but it does not matter as you are consuming it still.
Well, it depends on your bubble I guess. But personally I’d say it’s underrated and overrated at the same time, but mostly underrated.
It depends on your expectations and way of usage in your toolbox I’d say. It keeps surprising me weekly how fast progress is. But we get used to it perhaps.
id say its like the dotcom bubble.
yeah its incredible new & emerging tech,
but that doesnt mean it isnt overhyped.What’s the dotcom bubble?
The other half does not know how people rate things.
I have a doctorate in computer engineering, and yeah it’s overhyped to the moon.
I’m oversimplifying it and some one will ackchyually me but once you understand the core mechanics the magic is somewhat diminished. It’s linear algebra and matrices all the way down.
We got really good at parallelizing matrix operations and storing large matrices and the end result is essentially “AI”.
As a college student, I agree with the idea and statement of AI being overrated. It’ll definitely have its’ place in this world, but I definitely don’t foresee us being able to utilize it to the fullest before we end up in a nuclear hellhole.
I asked chatGPT to generate a list of 5 random words, and then tell me the fourth word from the bottom. It kept telling me the third. I corrected it, and it gave me the right word. I asked it again, and it made the same error. It does amazing things while failing comically at simple tasks. There is a lot of procedural code added to plug the leaks. Doesn’t mean it’s overrated, but when something is hyped hard enough as being able to replace human expertise, any crack in the system becomes ammunition for dismissal. I see it more as a revolutionary technology going through evolutionary growing pains. I think it’s actually underrated in its future potential and worrisome in the fact that its processing is essentially a black box that can’t be understood at the same level as traditional coding. You can’t debug it or trace the exact procedure that needs patching.
I believe I saw this kind of issues was because of the token system. Like if you tell him to find a word starting with a letter, he can’t really do it without hard coded workaround, because he doesn’t know about single letters, only about tokens which are parts of the sentence.
It’s definitly more complicated than that, but it doesn’t mean AI is bad, only that this current implementation can’t do theses kind of task.
The best use I’ve found for AI is getting it to write me covering letters for job applications. Even then I still need to make a few small adjustments. But it saves a bit of time and typing effort.
Other than that, I just have fun with it making stupid images and funny stories based on inside jokes.
That is a terrible graph. There’s no y axis, there’s no indication of what the scale is, and I don’t know how many people they asked or who these people were or what tech company they worked in.
Just over 23% believe it is rated fairly, while a quarter of respondents were presumably proponents of the tech as they said it was underrated. However, 51.6% of people said it was overrated.
That sentence is a fantastic demonstration of how bad this article is. The article says that a quarter say the technology is underrated, but it looks more like half to me. Not that it matters because, as I said the scale is useless. Also they are lumping 51.6% I don’t know how they came up with that number because again we don’t know what the total was, just that it was more than 1,500. You can’t calculate a percentage without knowing the total.
The graph has 11 options so were they rating it on a scale of between 1 and 11. What’s that?
