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0 pointsBarrin923y ago0 comments

>We are literally arguing semantics if this is AGI

It isn't and nobody with any experience in the field believes this. This is the Alexa / IBM Watson syndrome all over again, people are obsessed with natural language because it's relatable and it grabs the attention of laypeople.

Protein folding is a major scientific breakthrough with big implications in biology. People pay attention to ChatGPT because it recites the constitution in pirate English.

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ramraj073y ago

This is like all other rocket companies undermining what spacex is doing as not a big deal. You can keep arguing semantics while they keep putting actual satellites and people into orbit every month.

I use chatGPT every day to solve real problems as if it’s my assistant, and most people with actual intelligence I know do as well. People with “experience in the field”, in my opinion can often get a case of sour grapes that they internalize and project with their seeming expertise and go blind to persist some sense of calm to avoid reality.

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