See, I’m a big emergent tech guy, so I know exactly what large language models and how they are in no way a step towards generative AI. This is barely ALI if we’re being honest. It’s a parlor trick. Chatbots are Furbies that can search the internet.
Though when Furbies solve simple mathematical equations, they’re always right.
Google Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan wanders off topic quite a bit here in his admission and apology (so maybe he does not quite “get it,”) but I am pleased that Google recognized the problem, and is not sweeping it under a rug, making accusations etc…
Other AI Chatbots (some of which have made even worse errors) should do this.
Fun Fact:
In 1908 over 2,000 US companies made autos (or auto parts)
By the 1930s (22 years later) depression, that number was 44.
By the 1970s (62 years later) the Big 3 dominated American auto.
“Large Language Models” like ChatGPT are one segment of AI. It’s the segment that most nearly mirrors Wikipedia or a google question, but with no source attribution.
OpenAI has ChatGPT
Microsoft has CoPilot
Google has Gemini
Twitter has Grok
Snapchat has MyAI
Perplexity, Lamba, Llama, Pecuna, Cohere, Falcon, Ernie, Orca, dozens more exist in the US market.
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Point is
While the LLMs with big backers have an obvious advantage,
we still don’t know which company’s LLM will be the biggest 10, 20 or 30 years from now.
Well, in the 1980s at the outset of home computing, industry leaders included IBM, Compaq, Texas Industries and WANG.
In the 2000s, at the advent of the Internet, top search engines included Yahoo,
Excite, WebCrawler, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves & Infoseek.
In the 1950s/60s at the birth of suburban shopping, Sears, JC Penny, Montgomery Ward and later Kmart were the biggest names.
An advantage in the beginning is important, but it is certainly not destiny.
From what little I have seen, I hope Open AI’s Chat GPT and Snapchat’s MyAI, fall flat on their faces and if “Go Woke Go Broke” means anything in this case, they probably will.
A part of me wonders if whites are being provoked into eventually making desired responses that the noble elites will be forced to deal with. The thing with Google AI is not woke stupidity or an honest mistake.