[birracerveza]

> Or they think that users would rather have a faster GPT-4 than a smarter but slower one.

And they are absolutely right.

GPT-4 is already much more than enough for 90% of tasks while maintaining a sane dose of human double-checking.

Making it faster enables real-time workflows, and better energy efficiency also gives them much more capability to serve more requests/users while lowering costs. And that knowledge likely carries over to GPT-5 or whatever.

[somnic]

My duckduckgo results are starting to have summaries that do not reflect the content of the associated site and contain plausible falsehoods, courtesy of bing, and the content-farming keyword-spamming AI generated SEO slop goes without saying at this point. It'd be very nice if these models weren't also polluting the resources that people use to try and verify things.

[jgalt212]

> GPT-4 is already much more than enough for 90% of tasks while maintaining a sane dose of human double-checking.

There's the rub. Does the cost of double checking a 90% solution best the cost of current methods?

[madamelic]

Yes. Absolutely.

Who cares if I have to scan through it when it can write 100 lines of rote boring code in 10 seconds when it would take me 5 minutes.

I can type fast but GPT can type thousands of words per minute. I can't compete with that.

[fidotron]

Debugging is way harder than getting it right first time though.

The fun thing with all this AI stuff is people are beginning to appreciate the nice thing about computers the whole time was their strict mechanical nature.

[gtirloni]

So as the article is suggesting, Gen AI has probably peaked.

[sebzim4500]

I don't understand how you got that from his comment

[gtirloni]

When you start focusing on increasing speed and trimming the rough edges, the technology is maturing. It can't be maturing AND making huge leaps expected of GPT-5.

[muyuu]

even if the tech didn't improve one iota in the next 10 years, the low hanging fruit that remains for the taking in application is just staggering right now