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Comment by vasilipupkin

ML in general has been in production in many places/companies for a while now. Specifically GPt-4 is useful as a coding assistant and a reference tool. However, it's hard to know whether what it's telling you is accurate or fake and if you want to be thorough you need to double check it. So, it's already useful but in a limited way and it remains to be seen how much better it's likely to get in the near future.

But let's not confuse that in general with AI or Machine Learning which is already used heavily in lots of places.

the specific type of architecture that gpt-4 uses for next word prediction is not the only possible architecture and is not what's used for many real world tasks. There a lot of different problems being addressed by ML and next word prediction is just one of them, although quite important.

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