Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Degenerative AI… The recent failures of "artificial intelligence" tech" video.

  1. "AI" is a meaningless buzzword. Pre-trained transformers and foundation models have legit useful profitable applications, but it's more because it's allowed capabilities that used to be reserved for supercomputing clusters to be commoditized to running in your garden-variety cloud, not because the models of today are "smarter" than they were five years ago.
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  2. I realize his delivery is deadpan, but if you're struggling to pick up on Jeff's sarcasm you're going to have a bad time here.
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  3. If a genie granted me one wish, it would be to re-brand every "Center for AI/ML" as a "Department of Large Matrices"
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  4. I'm more shocked by the second example—if I'm responsible for GenAI and I need to assess if it's safe to release in two queries, that's proompt no. 1.
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  5. Was it? I see people speculating that cropped / derivative versions were fake, but the original image has no admissions of hoax—and you'd think they would by now, since the story has been reported as true in a bunch of publications, including the New York Times. (to be clear, I'm not saying the Times wouldn't fall for a hoax, but usually when it does, the hoaxer steps up to take credit)
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  6. He did. And with absolute, unambiguous sincerety. (this is sarcasm)
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  7. Go watch Coffee's video—it's dumber than a Tamagotchi. All signs point to there being zero intelligence at rabbit, artificial or human.
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