[CuriouslyC]

Even if the models aren't gargantuan, millions of people using AI applications is going to burn a lot of power.

[flextheruler]

I still haven’t seen a use case that will make AI adopted by the masses I think it’s still mostly hot air. It’s good for what it is for office jobs and higher education, but only for specific tasks and it has to be triple checked.

Just yesterday at work I asked it for a Powershell script to upload a local file to S3 and it hallucinated a method. The whole script is like 10 lines. How could it mess that up, but meanwhile it’s about to change the world and be mass adopted?

This is Claude 3 the best model for coding…

After using these models for awhile I think they’re really helpful to get off the ground in terms of coding and writing and to help review coding and writing, but that’s about all I’ve seen so far. It feels like we’re also getting diminishing returns with the current paradigm so we’ll see if I’ll be eating my hat next year, but I really don’t see mass adoption like a search engine.

[bongodongobob]

I use ChatGPT4 daily for powershell scripts. The only time it seems to hallucinate is when I'm forcing it to use 4.0 rather than 5.1 or 7.

[CuriouslyC]

I've had GPT4 produce quite a bit of useful code, and it's indispensable when working with new libraries or in new domains.

[parpfish]

Even if every dev in the world adopted an LLM copilot, that’s a teeny tiny sliver of “the masses”.

[CuriouslyC]

Except that LLMs are going to eat into everything white collar. Law, medicine, writing, common office tasks, etc. Beyond that, a function calling chat interface enables a class of application that couldn't exist without it.

[GaggiX]

Has AI not already been adopted by the masses?

[parpfish]

Absolutely not. I’d wager that a slim majority of Americans have heard of chatGPT, much less have used it, and even fewer have done something useful/productive with it.

Here are stats from 6 months ago, I doubt it’s changed significantly since then:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/28/most-amer...

[GaggiX]

>about four-in-ten adults under 30 have used it

That seems pretty massive honestly, that's way beyond what I would consider adopted by the masses.

[parpfish]

That’s four intern among those that have heard of it. So cut that in half to get the percentage of the population.

Or another way of thinking of it: among people that have heard of your free-to-use product, a majority haven’t bothered to try it.

[amelius]

This only makes their argument stronger.