I'm sick of it. This has happened so many times in my memory. Some AI company announces that they did something fascinating, and it turns out it is all just hype and slope in the end. I still believe that LLMs are a dead end. Most people here are basically like "I've no idea what's going on, but I'm so happy and LLMs are so cool". To think that doing enough linear algebra would solve all your problems just feels wrong. I guess I'll simply wait until someone interprets the results and explains what's actually going on.
If you scroll around on this thread, you'll see mathematicians discussing how they worked on one of these probably for a quarter century. Others arguing whether another is the biggest number theoretic breakthrough in 100 years or 200 years. It looks like they have made substantial progress on 4 Millennium Problems now. Unless it turns out that almost all of these results are wrong, what would it even mean for LLMs to be a dead end now? This is a historical day for mathematics and it will not be forgotten.
This day is a Wednsday in the new AI era, it's meaningless, that's kinda the problem. It's very sad, I think we'll be gone as a species in 5 years tops.
But Bill stopped being involved in Microsoft’s day to day business over a decade ago. And he’s making valid arguments that don’t require us to trust him. Do you not think labor disruption, cyberattacks, and mass surveillance are big risks from powerful AI?
