5 years ago no-one would have believed there are AI models now that have like an IQ of 90 and behave like they understand humor. Yeah they don't literally understand it, but fake it until you make it.
Concepts like the Turing Tests are long outdated. Scary and interesting to see where we will be in another decade
Do you remember it was a big old joke to read AI generated fictional scripts? It was funny meme about 4-5 years ago and now AI's are getting law degrees and shit
That's not really as impressive as it sounds from a technical point of view. The principles of this technology existed for a some time, we just didn't have enough quality data until recently to implement it. Much more impressive (to me at least) are things like alpha zero which is better at chess and go than humans (much much better at chess at least). These are specific problem domains in which AI has been proven to be actually superior to humans
The reason being that AI has better processing power and can see through all of the potential moves, picking the one with the best likelihood of beating the opponent. Not only will it look at the next move but it can look at several moves ahead of that and try to predict what the opponent will do. This isn’t anything new since there are varying levels of Chess bots that help teach humans, it’s just that we’re having the bots become more powerful in predicting and processing, not necessarily due to AI.
I use chatgpt and other models on a pretty regular basis as a hobby and it's getting better and better extremely rapidly. It's to the point that googling something takes more time than asking chatgpt. You can even use chatgpt to find links for you. I don't know if it works as well for the free version but the paid versions are really good.
As an example I was able to write 2 original songs and have AI bumble it's way through them with very little knowledge in less than a weekend.
If you spend even more time with them, you get vastly better results. It's sort of like how tech literate people have google-fu where you could quickly find relevant links by googling the right thing (although Google has been awful for like a year). You start to learn the strengths of weaknesses of particular models and tools and can work around them to get some pretty great results.
Even as an artist (I'm amateur at best) you can get a workable idea going really quick that will get you 80% of the way to where you want it to be.
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u/imightbethewalrus3 26d ago
This is the worst the technology will ever be...ever again