I feel like I've been hearing someone say AI is going to change everything for years now and we've had some cool advancements like better language translations, voice emulation, image generation and enhancement, some barebones essay writing and better/quick search summarization but aside from that, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot that I am aware of.
Someone mentions how AI has made big advances in some industries for certain niche tasks. That's good but again not life changing.
Is AI actually going to change much or is it going to be as it already has. Rather incremental, fairly niche and nothing earth shattering?
If AI is truly going to be groundbreaking stuff that'll change everything what are some sorts of skills/knowledge that will be useful in knowing in the future to make use of the coming "AI age"?
I really feel like AI is just a giant scam to make techbros tons of money and give them more influnece in politics, tbh. I feel lke it's really being overstated.
I imagine it'll stay niche until they have a(n) LLM capable of parsing huge amounts of data accurately, at which point it'll become big brother and we'll all be fucked.
Until then it'll be kinda neat when used appropriately and annoying when used badly (probably more of the latter than the former). Like I think there's a skyrim mod that makes NPCs react appropriately and have dynamic dialogue. Stuff like that will be either great or insufferable depending on what game it ends up in.
Seems like that's what Grok is aiming for, and will likely succeed at what with Elon's investment in hardware. The key is to be able to "DO IT LIVE" and update the model as new information comes in. AI queries will be the new search engines.
For the low level stuff like in games, the Chinese are making strides in optimizing the models to run on slower hardware. You'll probably see LLMs incorporated into game engines without needing to call a central server soon. It won't just be used for conversations, but for everything and anything dynamic. (people have even used generative algorithms in minecraft)
Surprisingly, you don't actually need large LLM's to pull that off. Iirc, just need to make sure to fine-tune it or something with some pseudocode, and possibly interlinking it with stored data in something like json.
I can't remember a lot of the specifics right now, but it can and does very much work.