Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the constant hype surrounding AI. During an appearance on podcaster Dwarkesh Patel's show this week, Nadella offered a reality check, arguing that OpenAI's long-established goal of establishing "artificial general intelligence," (AGI) an ill-defined term that roughly denotes the point at which an AI can best humans on an intellectual level, is nonsense. "Us self-claiming some AGI

“The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10 percent,” he added. “Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. When that happens, we’ll be fine as an industry.”

Needless to say, we haven’t seen anything like that yet. OpenAI’s top AI agent — the tech that people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman say is poised to upend the economy — still moves at a snail’s pace and requires constant supervision.

  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Thanks. So the underlying architecture that powers LLMs has application in things besides language generation like protein folding and DNA sequencing.

      • dovah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        You are correct that AlphaFold is not an LLM, but they are both possible because of the same breakthrough in deep learning, the transformer and so do share similar architecture components.

        • Calgetorix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          And all that would not have been possible without linear algebra and calculus, and so on and so forth… Come on, the work on transformers is clearly separable from deep learning.

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Image recognition models are also useful for astronomy. The largest black hole jet was discovered recently, and it was done, in part, by using an AI model to sift through vast amounts of data.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC1lssgsEGY

      This thing is so big, it travels between voids in the filaments of galactic super clusters and hits the next one over.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      It’s always important to double check the work of AI, but yea it excels at solving problems we’ve been using brute force on

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      AI is just what we call automation until marketing figures out a new way to sell the tech. LLMs are generative AI, hardly useful or valuable, but new and shiny and has a party trick that tickles the human brain in a way that makes people give their money to others. Machine learning and other forms of AI have been around for longer and most have value generating applications but aren’t as fun to demonstrate so they never got the traction LLMs have gathered.