Part of the problem in AI is the lack of useful benchmarks that show progress is being made in skill areas where AI will truly be useful and transformational. I mean, who cares if a LLM can pass a bar exam or real estate license test?
> Part of the problem in AI is the lack of useful benchmarks that show progress is being made in skill areas where AI will truly be useful and transformational.
There also needs to be discussion if the transformations AI can make possible are actually for the common good. They'll certainly be good for a small minority (e.g. certain billionaires), but its hype-men seem to be lazily gesturing to utopian sci-fi and lazy and oversimple economic thinking to justify it [1].
But it's probably hopeless, since SV is a technopoly and has too much influence.
[1] Like assuming there will always be work for all people in the face of automation, that people will be better off if goods get cheaper as their economic prospects dim, etc.
