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Sid Rao's avatar

You can’t be a skeptic without trying to also help. Being skeptical without helping is just being… cynical (and a boomer - OK Boomer). So I have been developing tooling to help. Here is my latest gadget:

https://github.com/srao-positron/camille

Thank you for reposting this!

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Leo C's avatar

As was the last post, catchy headlines with nuanced, reality-based analysis!

Having experienced this myself, I believe the enterprise “AI Committees” fail due to a poor understanding of AI being an driver of value as opposed to a tool that help people create value. Applications and patterns are vastly different depending on the use case, that it is difficult to come up with one coherent approach to these distinct problems. It’s as if one was forming a committee around using Excel: I can use it for financial modeling, edit CSVs, or a Super Mario Bros. game entirely written in VBA.

I also wonder if we should be talking about AI beyond pure text-token transformers. There is rapid advances in RL, CV in medical imaging and robotics, protein structure prediction, and teams working on world models.

The wave of investment and interest hyped up by scaled Transformers models might speed up other areas of AI research as well.

Even Sam Altman himself has said that there needs to be another breakthrough before achieving AGI - Scaling Laws and Agentic AI are simply not enough.

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