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HelloGoodbyeFriend t1_j9ragu5 wrote

Would be amazed if anyone accurately predicted a LLM chatbot getting to 100m users 2 months after launch in 2022.

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blueSGL t1_j9rf2n4 wrote

Now come on, be fair. You know that's not the point I'm making at all.

It's people working in ML research being unable to accurately predict technological advancements, not user numbers.

You might find this section of an interview with Ajeya Cotra (of biological anchors for forecasting AI timelines fame)

Starts at 29.14 https://youtu.be/pJSFuFRc4eU?t=1754

Where she talks about how several benchmarks were past early last year that surveys of ML workers had a median of 2026.
Also she casts doubt on people that are working in the field but are not working on specifically forecasting AGI/TAI directly as a source for useful information.

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