I agree and as a non-software engineer, all that matters to me right now is how much can these models replace software engineering.
If a language model can't solve problems in a programming language then we are just fooling ourselves in less defined domains of "thought".
Software engineering is where the rubber meets the road in terms of intelligence and economics when viewing our society as a complex system. Software engineering salaries are above average exactly because most average people are not going to be software engineers.
From that point of view the progress is not impressive at all. The current models are really not that much better than chatGPT4 in April 2023.
AI art is a better example though. There is zero progress being made now. It is only impressive at the most surface level for someone not involved in art and who can't see how incredibly limited the AI art models are. We have already moved on to video though to make the same half baked, useless models that are only good to make marketing videos for press releases about progress and one off social media posts about how much progress is being made.
If a language model can't solve problems in a programming language then we are just fooling ourselves in less defined domains of "thought".
Software engineering is where the rubber meets the road in terms of intelligence and economics when viewing our society as a complex system. Software engineering salaries are above average exactly because most average people are not going to be software engineers.
From that point of view the progress is not impressive at all. The current models are really not that much better than chatGPT4 in April 2023.
AI art is a better example though. There is zero progress being made now. It is only impressive at the most surface level for someone not involved in art and who can't see how incredibly limited the AI art models are. We have already moved on to video though to make the same half baked, useless models that are only good to make marketing videos for press releases about progress and one off social media posts about how much progress is being made.