AGI... naw. I tend not to believe the current hype

I'm underwhelmed by the responses from Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly when it comes to image generation. A recent experiment with ChatGPT's meme generation capabilities was a frustrating experience...

AGI... naw. I tend not to believe the current hype
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Before "Prompt Engineering" was a thing, you could simply "tell" another human what you were trying to say (because often that’s the best I can do is TRY) and more often than not, they’d get you. But with LLMs, far from it. I honestly haven’t been impressed with their responses as a whole—partially because I have a deeper understanding of how they work under the hood. There’s no magic or smoke and mirrors to hide their limitations when parsing through billions of word patterns; they simply don’t deliver what I (or anyone else) needs. And when it comes to images, this is especially true—something I’ve realized as the motivation for this post.

While working on promoting DaD on social media (social media, yuck, I know), and trying to get ChatGPT to generate a slightly altered meme… the results were worse than expected.

The meme came from this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/adhdmeme/comments/1ic3z6i/planned_phone_call_perfect/

And here were the results from ChatGPT before I decided to give up:

Prompting ChatGPT to update a meme

Could my prompts have been engineered better? Probably, but that’s not really worth the effort for someone like me (who knows what they’re trying to achieve in the first place). What I’ll say is this: Any human being can read my "prompts" and understand what I wanted. Furthermore, any artist could easily generate a fitting meme.

I’m not convinced by the current hype surrounding AI and AGI. It’s time to separate fact from fiction and take a closer look at these technologies’ limitations. And particularly with this news about Deepseek, it seems clear that as per usual, big tech and all associated parties, are involved in a cash grab pure and simple. Fueled by easy trading (gambling) by the masses of young and dumb or just plain ignorant. SMH. The rich keep winning and the poor losing. But I digress... back to the point...

AI === Big Tech Hype (for now)