Is AI's hype cycle leading us into a trough of disillusionment? Dive into the reality behind GPT-5's launch and its impact on the tech world.

Is AI’s hype cycle leading us into a trough of disillusionment? Dive into the reality behind GPT-5’s launch and its impact on the tech world.

A recent MIT report on AI in business found that 95 percent of all generative-AI deployments in business settings generated “zero return.”

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I feel like LLMs didn’t hit a deadend so much as people started trying to use them in completely inappropriate applications.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I think it’s a mixture of that and the fact that when OpenAI saw that throwing more data drastically improved the models, they thought they would continue to see jumps like that.

      However, we now know that bad benchmarks were misleading how steep the improvements were, and much like with autonomous vehicles, solving 90% of the problem is still a farcry away from 100%.