AsuhoChinami t1_j5rhmf7 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:21 AM

I get tired of the 'nothing's ever worth being excited about' attitude in general when it comes to anything and everything tech-related. Every article about anything related to medicine or tech always has to end with the obligatory paragraph that goes "but we're still in the early days... scientists say it will be years if not decades before this is worth being happy or excited about..." Fuck off, just let us be happy for once in our miserable-ass lives and let us have our uplifting bit of news to temporarily relieve our desire to blow our brains out with a shotgun for about 30 minutes.

roland333 t1_j5t2xna wrote on January 25, 2023 at 11:03 AM

|temporarily relieve our desire to blow our heads off with a shotgun

Well that escalated quickly

TheAnonFeels t1_j5uuw4y wrote on January 25, 2023 at 6:55 PM

Definitely when someone dumps on the whole thing and completely misses the concept, definitely escalates the elevation of that shotgun.

littlebluedot42 t1_j5slssm wrote on January 25, 2023 at 7:10 AM

Come to think of it, the absolutely unprecedented number of people worldwide on a prescription of anti-depressants might have something to do with a decent chunk of that demographic. Emotional blunting, and all that. I hear it's beginning to show signs of long-term effects, if I understand correctly. Yay.

AsuhoChinami t1_j5swgoq wrote on January 25, 2023 at 9:34 AM

Been on them since 2011. Didn't blunt my emotions, just gave me an emotional range beyond just negative ones.

littlebluedot42 t1_j5tpfuc wrote on January 25, 2023 at 2:33 PM

"Emotional blunting" is a frequent side-effect of many, if not most, antidepressants. I'm genuinely glad to hear it's not one of your personal challenges on your road to lasting happiness, neighbor. 🤗🌻

fjaoaoaoao t1_j5tyc8c wrote on January 25, 2023 at 3:33 PM

Sometimes depressing thoughts have come from people spouting excitement though - excited by the tech while depressed by the potential changes.

So i wouldn’t say all of those who are having a more tempered reaction means they are depressed or not trying to be uplifting -> could be they are trying to be rational.

littlebluedot42 t1_j5ubpcx wrote on January 25, 2023 at 4:58 PM

To be fair, I didn't say all, and clinical depression is leagues different than a feeling of depression, to be very clear, and at no point did I say anything at all regarding your second sentence. Please reread.

vivehelpme t1_j5tds9a wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:01 PM

>I get tired of the 'nothing's ever worth being excited about' attitude in general when it comes to anything and everything tech-related.

The varying degree of excitement come from how introduced you've been to the tech precusors. A matter of perspective if you will.

If you never heard of a language model before and try chatGPT you'll probably be quite impressed.

On the other hand if you read the transformers paper in 2017 and tried every single transformers architecture language model implementation since then you're kind of served up a slightly improved version with a slick engineered presentation, sure it's an impressive package but you've seen iterations build towards it and might even have seen some model that does a better job in certain domains.

Which is from where you get headlines like

>ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative,' and 'nothing revolutionary', says Meta's chief AI scientist