Original Reddit post

I’ve always been a skeptic of AI and for the last few years I was not able to understand what’s going on in this field. But ever since I’ve been using the AI tools, recently I’ve had this realization. I’ll try to explain my thoughts in as simpler manner as possible. In my city there used to be this so called miracle man. He used to have a huge following wherever he went. He used to pull gold chains out of thin air and hand it to his followers as a display. People called it and believed it as “Magic”. As soon as the word was associated with his actions his popularity grew. People kept saying he could levitate, he could cure deseases etc etc. All this without anyone witnessing these levitations and curing of diseases. I believe all this came to be cuz people believed what he did to be magic. Now, around few years ago few people built these large language models based on neural networks that primarily specialized in recognizing patterns by referring to the context it holds, from it’s training data. At some point, the context it holds became so large that it started mimicing human conversations. People called it “AI”. People said AI can fully drive a car, AI can do all the white collar jobs. AI can do anything a human can do!! Technically people aren’t wrong. An AI can do all those things, but the question that I have is did that miracle man really do any magic? submitted by /u/bufferingrahr

Originally posted by u/bufferingrahr on r/ArtificialInteligence