I unironically believe that most of the AI hype comes from the fact that people grossly overestimate how hard language synthesis actually is. Like… this is a thing that babies can do. Language is so easy that we learn to understand it passively, just by listening. Something like 50% of the world’s population speaks more than one language. Hell, there are even dozens of animal species that have rudimentary language… and yet this is supposed to be the most valuable technology ever created? Something we’ve all been doing for free without even thinking about it for tens of thousands of years?
I guess it’s no surprise that the biggest AI boosters are the people who most love to hear themselves talk. Of course they would think that language is the pinnacle of intelligence…
I unironically believe that most of the AI hype comes from the fact that people grossly overestimate how hard language synthesis actually is. Like… this is a thing that babies can do. Language is so easy that we learn to understand it passively, just by listening. Something like 50% of the world’s population speaks more than one language. Hell, there are even dozens of animal species that have rudimentary language… and yet this is supposed to be the most valuable technology ever created? Something we’ve all been doing for free without even thinking about it for tens of thousands of years?
I guess it’s no surprise that the biggest AI boosters are the people who most love to hear themselves talk. Of course they would think that language is the pinnacle of intelligence…