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Absolutely. It's still fascinating tech and very likely to have serious implications and huge use cases. Just drives me crazy to see tech breakthroughs being overhyped and over marketed based on that hype (frankly much like the whole "we'll be on Mars by X year nonsense).

One of the biggest reasons these misunderstandings are so frustrating is because you can't have reasonable discussion about the potential interesting applications of the tech. On some level copy writing may devolve into auto generating prompts for things like GPT with a few editors sanity checking the output (depending on level of quality), and I agree that a second opinion "check for tumors" use has a LOT of interesting applications (and several concerning ones such as over reliance on a model that will cause people who fall outside the bell curve to have even more trouble getting treatment).

All of this is a much more realistic real world use case RIGHT NOW, but instead we've got people fantasizing about how close we are to GAI and ignoring shortcomings to shoehorn it into their preferred solution.

Open AI ESPECIALLY reinforces this by being very selective with their results and they way they frame things. I became aware of this as a huge dota fan for over a decade when they did their games there. And while it was very very interesting and put up some impressive results, the framing of those results does NOT portray the reality.



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