[anjc]

It seems that people can't grasp the exponential rate of developments here. They're stuck in the GPT2 LLM narrative. Even with the amazing Veo 3 videos this week, people are still nitpicking and seemingly unable to remember the state of the art 2 weeks ago, 6 months ago, 1 year ago, etc.

I don't mean to say that scores on evaluation metrics will remain exponential but rather the developments, uses, integrations will (e.g., web search in ChatGPT), and people can't conceive or keep track of this, and therefore discussions on the area are always behind the times.

For example, I think it's inevitable now that TV/movie production will not exist as we know it in a short time, except as niche work, like fine art in the age of digital. It's also inevitable that fully personalised media will be predominant. I think this is obvious, but yet people are zooming in on the background of essentially perfect videos to spot minor and irrelevant coherence aberrations.

Nitpicking will also inevitably become a niche hobby, like people who complain about the colour grading on a movie remaster, while the rest of the world just watches the movie and doesn't notice or care about the issues.

[nunez]

You are saying all of this like it's a good thing.

I don't want to live in a world where reality doesn't exist (which tools like Veo3 will absolutely be used to distort the truth), but we are speed running ourselves to that destination.

[anjc]

Yes I agree, I don't think that it's good at all. It's just fascinating to me that people are criticising current LLMs using information they heard about LLMs 3 years ago, when right in front of their eyes are sci-fi-like results from the field.

> I don't want to live in a world where reality doesn't exist

Perhaps the end result is that the world turns away from digital completely and goes back to reality :) We see already that some universities are going back to written and oral assessments, for example.