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I mean. This whole “article” is an opinion piece. Some of the opinions I even agreed with but there’s a lot of “I think” involved in a lot of the paragraphs written here.
That’s the case for all predictions on the future of AI. They are all just opinions, some more informed than others. The author does clearly cite some of the things that are informing their opinion in this case, so I’m not sure what your problem is there. I’m also not sure why you put article in quotation marks; this is clearly an article. Your comment seems like a lazy attempt to discredit the piece and shutdown discussion without bothering to respond to any of your real problems with it.
They probably just dislike Vox.
No, I’m not a fan of vox. But on the other hand this particular article might as well have been a random blog post. I don’t necessarily disagree that people calling Generative AI a bust are jumping the gun. And I kind of even agree that using these generative models in applications that solve problems is going to take time, I don’t necessarily agree that just because a bunch of users have fixated on the new shiny thing that it will have staying power or that it will achieve a level of usefulness that will translate to long term profitability.
But mostly I take exception to an article positing itself as factually starting every paragraph with “I think”.
But most I take exception to an article positing itself as factually
Where did it do that? The author writes in first person throughout, it is clearly an opinion piece.
Because this article is posited (with its title and the little blurb at the top about the author) to be about the safety of AI. The author doesn’t talk about what safety regulations there are. They don’t talk about what safety apparatus are being proposed or which ones have already been developed. There’s no conclusion here.
When you read a newspaper, generally there is a section for opinion pieces and editorials. There are several groups trying to push for clear and concise labeling of editorial, opinion pieces, and news pieces specifically because there’s so much misinformation going around.
But really. What is the point of posting an opinion piece to a community where we share tech news, when it’s not even valuable in its opinions? What is there to discuss here? That shareholders and consumers should view AI safety legislation or safety protocols differently because they affect those two parties differently? We already knew that.
How is it delayed and slow? We recently got an update to Llama 3, a new Mistral model and Flux for generating images. All of them are a big step forward and I regularly see how big advancements are being made. I can see with my own eyes how they’re getting more capable by the day…
So yeah, the bubble is probably going to burst. Because companies have pumped in lots of billions of dollars and inflated it to no end. That’s not sustainable. And I can see how your experience might be different if you limit yourself to using ChatGPT. Because people want a big surprise with version 5 for some time now. But that’s just hype. And has nothing to do with technology. Or competing products.
Yeah I keep seeing stories about how doomed AI companies are. Apparently if they don’t create AGI then it was all for nothing and it’s trash.
