I continue to be surprised by the talk of general artifical intelligence when it comes to LLMs. At their core, they are text predictors, and they're often pretty good at that. But anything beyond that, they are decidely unimpressive.
I use Copilot on a daily basis, which uses GPT 4 in the backend. It's wrong so often that I only really use it for boilerplate autocomplete, which I still have to review. I've had colleagues brag about ChatGPT in terms of code it produces, but when I ask how long it took in terms of prompting, I'll get an answer of around a day, and that was even using fragments of my code to prompt it. But then I explain that it would take me probably less than an hour from scratch to do what it took them and ChatGPT a full day to do.
So I just don't understand the hype. I'm using Copilot and ChatGPT 4. What is everyone else using that gives them this idea that AGI is just around the corner? AI isn't even here. It's just advanced autocomplete. I can't understand where the disconnect is.
I use Copilot on a daily basis, which uses GPT 4 in the backend. It's wrong so often that I only really use it for boilerplate autocomplete, which I still have to review. I've had colleagues brag about ChatGPT in terms of code it produces, but when I ask how long it took in terms of prompting, I'll get an answer of around a day, and that was even using fragments of my code to prompt it. But then I explain that it would take me probably less than an hour from scratch to do what it took them and ChatGPT a full day to do.
So I just don't understand the hype. I'm using Copilot and ChatGPT 4. What is everyone else using that gives them this idea that AGI is just around the corner? AI isn't even here. It's just advanced autocomplete. I can't understand where the disconnect is.