This is the gap between "I'm 100x more productive now!" and "so what did you accomplish in the past month?"
@fchollet
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The Gap Between AI Dreams and Practical Reality
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Many people are in love with the idea of everything they think they could do with AI — not so much with the actual reality of using it.
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ChatGPT Code Generation Compared to Traditional Programming Tools
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They're literally describing the usual programming workflow (when using SO/etc as a code snippet reference). Why do people insist on saying "ChatGPT wrote this program" when this is not at all what's happening? Do they also say "my compiler wrote this" or "SO/Google wrote this"?
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2.5M Developers Use ML Technology in Major Services
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2.5M devs, aka 60-65% of the ML community — including most of the services you use everyday, like Twitter, YouTube, Snap, TikTok, Maps, etc.
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Language Acquisition in Toddlers: Goal-Driven Agents, Not Statistical Prediction
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In general, language acquisition is better understood from the lens of toddlers being agents trying to achieve goals in their environment. Using adult-level psychology concepts is not super relevant. Nor are children "statistical parrots" trying to predict the "next token"…
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Support for KerasNLP contributions and collaborative development
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Yes, definitely. Would be happy to support you with that as part of KerasNLP if you're interested in contributing this.
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Automation and Mass Unemployment: A Debunked Prediction from 2014
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I vividly remember the ~2014 one. 80% unemployment rates were supposed to be around the corner. If machines can beat people at Jeopardy, who's ever going to need a human doctor anymore? I wrote a post debunking the whole "automation causes mass unemployment" thesis at the time.
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Automation Panic: Historical Recurring Fear, Economic Reality Differs
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"You're fired!" — with the progress of automation, human labor is now outdated. Machines are replacing you. Such panics have been a regular occurrence since the early 20th century. Of course, in reality, that's not how the economy works. But it's a message with viral potential.
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Learning Lessons from IBM Watson Success and Failures
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I think there's a lot we can learn from IBM Watson, good and bad.
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IBM Watson and the 2014 AI Job Displacement Panic
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The first "AI is coming for you job" mass panic I experienced first-hand was in 2014 and was based on the same premise — that human doctors would soon be a thing of the past. It was triggered by the now-defunct IBM Watson.