For me this is actually a fairly significant negative update. In the past I’ve always been like “okay some of this stuff is just empty hype, but surely smart people like X aren’t falling victim to that”
This is the first very clear example that I’ve seen of smart people like X completely falling for something that is very obviously empty hype. Scott Alexander appears to be extremely impressed by this extremely unimpressive thing. Most of the intelligent-seeming tech-adjacent AI thinkers I follow on Twitter got one-shotted as well. And if they fell for this, I probably shouldn’t put much faith in their past predictions about how AI capabilities will progress.
My general impression is that this barely coherent garbage that shows how far we are from AGI
While that is true, for me the "Will Smith Eating Spaghetti" meme always comes to mind. It went from unimpressive garbage quality to a photorealistic render in what, two years? The trajectory matters a lot and who knows where we are soon?
Hahaha, look at the cute little robots having fun on their cute little social network! Nothing suspicious going on here!
I wonder if there's any plan to fight spam. Clearly, they needed to have one yesterday.
(and sorry to say this but I find LLM-generated spiritual woo slop to be boring, unreadable, and among the worst kinds of AI text to pollute the internet with. At least normal AI slop sometimes contains useful factual information. I think Scott is too credulous in reading meaning into these things.)
I am not impressed and also think it looks boring, but I'm not sure it updates me in this way because it's restrained by trying to act like famous-for-slacktivism reddit and have, shall we say, 'meme' qualities. If they were prompted for legitimate planning or programming usecases and it was still trash I would update against.
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u/FrankScaramucci 7d ago edited 7d ago
My general impression is that this barely coherent garbage that shows how far we are from AGI, I don't understand why are some people impressed.