This video will change your mind about the AI hype

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0:00 - The Mind Virus
1:52 - OpenAI
3:27 - Why are companies investing in AI?
5:29 - AI is not profitable (yet)
6:31 - Hype is a Marketing Tool
10:21 - How fast will AI improve?
14:12 - How to make life decisions?

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[NeetCode]

A few more points I didn't mention in the video:

1. A day after i uploaded this video I saw tech bros on twitter saying "all you need is Claude" and you can code almost anything.. yet they couldn't even recreate a basic component on neetcode.io that I literally coded as a junior engineer. So once again, people are vastly overstating what AI can do. If only this hadn't happened in human history a million times before.
2. Amazon invested billions in Alexa, only for it to be obsoleted by LLMs. I worked in Alexa (for a brief time) and it's obvious it wasn't well run. Big tech doesn't always know what they're doing.
3. Amazon Go's "AI" turned out to be indian workers watching security cameras.
4. Nearly every advancement goes through hype cycles. Not just the dotcom bubble, even the railroads were overbuilt in the 1800s. "The Panic of 1893 was the largest economic depression in U.S. history at that time. It was the result of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing, which set off a series of bank failures."


Fwiw I literally use LLMs on a daily basis to automate my own tasks. Yes it helps somewhat, but I'm also very familiar with its limitations.

If you disagree with me you may very well me right. But at least give me your best argument :)

Sources:

[JiwaChhetri]

Bro just solved the "should i drop out of college" problem in O(1) time complexity

[vasanthkannan]

“They sure as hell aren’t gonna give that to the employees”

[richjohararar]

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" ... pure gold

[akashverma]

Celebrity CEO's job is marketing.

[hamzarashid]

When Devin first came out there was job opening for a developer on their official website.

[ddosan]

The 99% applies very hard to the software development part.

Dev codes, it fails, Dev fixes.

AI codes, it fails, Dev has to go through an entire codebase of generated code to fix …

If you push the idea to its paradox: In a world where AI produces most of the code, fewer and fewer Devs would be able to fix errors which would increase the cost of failures => failure rate goes down, failure cost goes up.

[epistemicompute]

As a ML Engineer, I hate the conversations we’re having around AI and ML and all the hype.

ML is a good tool for a subset of problems, but it’s not the endgame of CS. At work, we do our best to find a deterministic solution first before we use ML.

People think this tech should be used to think for them instead.

[Chronomatrix]

Many now claim AI is overrated and all that, but I'm pretty sure the hype was just a collective misunderstanding of what this 'AI' actually is. I think people expected 'AI' to suddenly change all paradigms; they were mislead by the media and youtubers and the explosion of 'AI apps' (which are mostly based on GPT API calls). The Distributed System example is a great one.

[liam]

I discussed this with my professor. We also talked about how they change from GPT three to GPT four involved doubling the amount of neurons in the neural network- this begs the question if you are doubling the amount of neurons, are you doubling the performance? It seems like there is not a doubling in performance. This means that there are probably very severely diminishing returns as hardware tries to catch up with the exponentially increasing computational demands of iterative neural network improvement.

[_mippi_]

"Fake it till you make" it the philosophy a lot of start up companies follow because its the only way to get financial support to gain the resources they need to propel themselves

This is commonly seen in the Bay Area at places such as Stanford, Berkeley, SF. .. etc

[adityachakravarty]

The ending with Carl Sagan punchline is 🤌🏾

[wangchengyan]

My dad and I are both software engineers and our recent conversations were mostly around AI because my dad's company started to replace part of the team that my dad's on with LLM, the anxiety that people have been having about AI is sometimes soul-crushing when it comes to your closed ones, so I had to keep constantly reminding myself that for those content creators/companies that are intentionally hyping LLM up, they make money out of doing that and most of them never cared about where the tech is bringing us. I am glad to see this vid.

[OnePlanetOneTribe]

ya i agree its happened before, with VR hype, I haven't touched my VR set in months

[gerardoricor]

While AI hype can be misleading, real advancements are undeniable. DeepMind's AlphaFold, for example, revolutionized biology by accurately predicting protein structures. As a software engineer, I use multi-agent systems to automate tasks efficiently. These tools show AI's practical benefits beyond exaggerated claims.

[RawrxDev]

It's been really hard to stay motivated with my school work as a CSE student, my life for the past ten years has been in shambles, and learning programming genuinely gave me happiness I have not felt since I was a child, I want to program for a living, I want to make software the people use on a daily basis, I dont want AI to do everything for me and/or completely replace me and programming becomes just a hobby with no chance of competing against AI systems.(I also hate AI for art, it kinda kills the whole purpose of it but thats a different story) I agree with all your points as I have been following Gary Marcus and Yann Lecun for a while now, but the chance we're wrong, and AI does invalidate all my hard work right now, creeps into my brain while trying to learn. I'm hoping either the bubble bursts or the tech just takes off, this middle area of not knowing is honestly killing me.

[DrPastah]

It's the No Man's Sky marketing strat lmao
Hype your crap then actually finish building and delivering it a decade later after the promised date.

[congeedaily]

I like how he allocates all his cycles to content. His room is still the same as when he started neetcode.

[johnappleseed]

Unrelated but I’ve just gotten my first SWE job, looking at apartments to move into, and you’ve inspired me to find something more humble haha. You must have some serious bags but still living simple, good stuff man

[ZenonLite]

16:24 Samir, you’re breaking the car!