175
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
(garymarcus.substack.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
175 points (98.3% liked)
Technology
4106 readers
322 users here now
Which posts fit here?
Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
Post guidelines
[Opinion] prefix
Opinion (op-ed) articles must use [Opinion] prefix before the title.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. Use original link
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
3. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Companion communities
!globalnews@lemmy.zip
!interestingshare@lemmy.zip
Icon attribution | Banner attribution
If someone is interested in moderating this community, message @brikox@lemmy.zip.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's a chatbot that can see and draw, but rich idiots keep pushing it as an oracle. As if "a chatbot that can see and draw" isn't impressive enough.
Three years ago, 'label a tandem bicycle' would've produced a tricycle covered in squiggles. Four years ago it was impossible. I don't mean 'really really hard.' I mean we had no fucking idea how to make that program. People have been trying since code came on punchcards.
LLMs can almost-sorta-kinda do it, despite being completely the wrong approach. It's shocking that 'guess the next word' works this well. I'm confused by the lack of experimentation in, just... asking a different question. Diffusion's doing miracles with 'estimate the noise.' Video generators can do photorealism faster and cheaper than an actual camera.
The problem is, rich idiots claim this makes it an actual camera. In that context, it's fair to point out when a video shows the Eiffel Tower in Berlin. It's deeply impressive that computers can do that, now. But we can't let it guide people's vacation plans.