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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by MajorHavoc to c/[email protected]
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I'm usually the one saying "AI is already as good as it's gonna get, for a long while."

This article, in contrast, is quotes from folks making the next AI generation - saying the same.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Every company have always oversell their own products. This is not new.

Coca Cola is also just a carbonated sweet drink and it's being sold as happiness, socialization and the meaning of Christmas in a bottle.

Companies oversell, it's called marketing. It's shit practice but it's not nothing new.

That does not make the technology worse (or better). Current AI technology has its uses. With a big problem in how resource hungry it is. But it's fairly useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Your point is valid. Companies do use marketing to sell their products by using lots of outrageous claims. And my problem isn't really what the companies it's mostly with the people who are buying that bullshit.

P.S. your Coca-Cola example would have been better if you had reached back to their origins when they were sold as a tonic that cures just about everything. What they're being sold as right now is just a soda and all of the current marketing around it is just nostalgia bait which everybody uses for everything especially around Christmas time.