In a way he’s right, but it depends! If you take even a common example like Chat GPT or the native object detection used in iPhone cameras, you’d see that there’s a lot of cool stuff already enabled by our current way of building these tools. The limitation right now, I think, is reacting to new information or scenarios which a model isn’t trained on, which is where all the current systems break. Humans do well in new scenarios based on their cognitive flexibility, and at least I am unaware of a good framework for instilling cognitive flexibility in machines.

I dunno about him; but genuinely I'm excited about AI. Blows my mind each passing day ;)

He is correct. It is mostly people cashing out on stuff that isn't there.

it is basically like how self improvement folks are using quantum

That makes sense. He's old enough and close enough thematically to have seen a few of these tech hype cycles.

"duh."

Nice replacement topic after the maintainer drama last week