I was a hobbyist front-end developer a few years back. Basically just doing front end web development stuff and self-learning. Ever since I have become extremely fascinated with AI and tech. As someone who isn’t really using AI in enterprise or professionally it seems very difficult to get a gauge on what exactly this tech was, is, and could become. I play around with ChatGPT, Grok and now Claude. Honestly, for what I use it for (news, stock market info, analysis of stocks, simple chatting) i’m very impressed. I have to double check or feed it correct data sometimes but usually it’s pretty solid. It can break down stocks and analyze them from a financial analysts perspective and tell me what different stats mean and then create graphs and visuals explaining different changes. I even tried testing it with a photo of myself and I was really surprised how it was able to answer questions about the things in the photo, identifying tattoos, my necklace and pendant, what was going on behind me, the material of my gloves and all kinds of different things. I hear so much negativity on Reddit. Some say it’s AI slop, can’t handle large code bases, is all hype, a bubble, never gonna replace a person, companies are just forcing it to make profit, so on and so forth. Then I see bulls all the way from computer scientists, highly credentialed people, highly accomplished and intelligent people saying it’s going to lead to AGI, replace humans, basically take over and transform the entire economy blah blah. Seems like it’s hard to find a real gauge of what this technology actually is. I mean, simply asking it questions about a visual image and being able to identify and answer questions on that image with 100% accuracy and awareness seems like that alone could be used to transform so many things. But idk. I’m not an expert. I’m just curious what people think, is this a bubble that is going to collapse? Or is this actually the transformative technological revolution that so many experts claim it is? I mean, companies are spending hundreds of billions if not trillions in the future and it’s hard to believe it’s all on just AI slop useless junk? submitted by /u/reddituserxxxxxxx7
Originally posted by u/reddituserxxxxxxx7 on r/ArtificialInteligence