I have generally moved from bearish to bullish on the future of current AI technology, but the continued inaccuracy with basic facts all while the models significantly improve continues to give me significant pause.
As an example, creating recipes with Claude Opus based on flavor profiles and preferences feels magical, right up until the point at which it can't accurately convert between tablespoons and teaspoons. It's like the point in the movie where a character is acting nearly right but something is a bit off and then it turns out they're a zombie and going to try to eat your brain. This note taking example feels similar. It nearly works in some pretty impressive ways and then fails at the important details in a way that something able to do the things AI can allegedly do really shouldn't.
It's these failures that make me more and more convinced that while current generation AI can do some pretty cool things if you manage it right, we're not actually on the right track to achieve real intelligence. The persistence of these incredibly basic failure modes even as models advance makes it fairly obvious that continued advancement isn't going to actually address those problems.
As an example, creating recipes with Claude Opus based on flavor profiles and preferences feels magical, right up until the point at which it can't accurately convert between tablespoons and teaspoons. It's like the point in the movie where a character is acting nearly right but something is a bit off and then it turns out they're a zombie and going to try to eat your brain. This note taking example feels similar. It nearly works in some pretty impressive ways and then fails at the important details in a way that something able to do the things AI can allegedly do really shouldn't.
It's these failures that make me more and more convinced that while current generation AI can do some pretty cool things if you manage it right, we're not actually on the right track to achieve real intelligence. The persistence of these incredibly basic failure modes even as models advance makes it fairly obvious that continued advancement isn't going to actually address those problems.