The first 40 months of the AI era

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72 points | by jpmitchell 4 hours ago

8 comments

  • aidos 27 minutes ago
    > To what degree did I expand scope because I knew I could do more using the AI?

    Someone at work recently termed this “Claude Creep”. It’s so easy to generate things push you towards going further but the reality is that’s you’re setting yourself up for more and more work to get them over the line.

    • ares623 26 minutes ago
      And just like that, a new term has been coined.
  • ivanjermakov 5 minutes ago
    > 40 months

    Not counting from 1971s DARPA? Sorry I'm allegric when LLMs being called AI like nothing existed before it.

  • H8crilA 24 minutes ago
    Do you regularly find text content that you know is AI written (but is not marked as such)? Because honestly I don't, and it must exist in decent quantity by now. Or perhaps it's still sparse?
    • insin 1 minute ago
      Literally every day from green accounts on Hacker News, and in many, many TFAs.
    • etherus 13 minutes ago
      Have a look here [1] and here [2] - I think they are good resources, but fallible in the long run. I think yes, I do, often confirmed by communication with people I know (i.e. i suspect they have used AI to make something -> I ask). This falls victim to confirmation bias, though. I suspect a nontrivial amount of writing I read is AI generated without me realising, and I'm wary also of falsely flagging AI-generated content that is actually from humans.

      [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AAI_or_not_quiz [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASigns_of_AI_writin...

    • htnthrow11220 14 minutes ago
      I see it all the time in basically every form of text communication. What makes you think you are not seeing it?
  • insin 4 minutes ago
    *LLM
  • sudo_man 42 minutes ago
    Bro but... you now are having a business is planned by a paid chatbot, they can shutdown anytime or make it more expensive, also it is imposiable to get something new, you are copying for somewhere else, maybe what claude is copying is having a copyrights on it, like a leaked code and etc, also your brain will slowly shutdown from thinking about 'business' so you will hevaly relays on claude in the future :)

    My friend is trying to do the same, the Docker stack he made for his SaaS is really amazing, it is following the standards from the ancient age.

    • fnord77 35 minutes ago
      > you now are having a business is planned by a paid chatbot, they can shutdown anytime or make it more expensive

      Local models are about 25 months behind the current SOTA. If that holds, businesses won't need the paid models for many things.

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