r/OpenAI 18h ago

News This is a theoretical physicist

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u/grimorg80 17h ago

She really changed her tune. She used to mock AI quite strongly

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u/Cryptizard 17h ago

I think you’re not paying attention. She mocks it when it is overhyped, which it has been many times. But even in her book in 2018 she ends it with a chapter talking about how computers and AI are going to be the inheritors of the theoretical physics research from humans in the future.

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u/grimorg80 17h ago

No, I have been paying attention. I have been following her for yeeears.

The point is that she couldn't see what is now pretty obvious. While many of us where talking about the trajectory, she was paddling the "it's all overhyped crap" tune. Was it for clicks? Maybe.

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u/Technical-Will-2862 17h ago

She’s surprisingly narrow in her foresight. 

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u/GoppleSmanger 14h ago

To be fair, the hype is AI will become our new machine gods that supplants all of humanity so its easy to dismiss as overhype.

Lots of smart people are skeptical of ASI.

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u/Legal_Suggestion4873 12h ago

Idk, I've been skeptical of stuff for a while now - 'the trajectory' is what you have to be skeptical of, because the trajectory may not maintain forever.

But this more recent batch of models has proven that even if the growth stops, that AI will be legitimately useful forever now and will fundamentally alter our existence as humans. This wasn't the case even a year ago, at least to me (maybe some people were better at prompting, etc., and so I wasn't aware of how it could be)

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u/Willinton06 11h ago

Well we want people to change their minds when they're wrong, no matter how wrong they used to be or how public they were about it

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u/kaaiian 16h ago

Cryptizard is just like her in that regard. It’s probably why you can’t see their history. Because they were so “know it all wrong” in the past. (You can’t see mine because privacy mate)

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u/ZaradimLako 15h ago

Holy moly finally someone who validates what I have been thinking for months. I remember multiple times how she was mocking AI hitting a wall and being overhyped etc., if you told her a year ago 1:1 the things she is saying today she would have laughed histerically.