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Comment by michael_nielsen | Hacker News Reader

LeCun at least knows a lot about AI. Most of the Q* stuff is coming from people who know almost nothing.

But his guesses match the consensus, so it doesn't add to the stuff he's criticizing.

Fair enough. I suppose the useful bit is that lots of ignorant people have gone nuts ("OMG this is AGI!") without any details. That's just hype. But, yes, to your point, there is also some substantive and interesting speculation from more knowledgeable people.

It sounds like you prefer something that's more sensational simply because it's more sensational

Honestly, he has some really good takes mixed with....really bad ones.

I ended up unfollowing him as the curmudgeony approach combined with some of the far out stuff was just a bit too much for me. Doesn't really improve discourse in the field.

Seems to be a common theme with stuff starting with Q...

Quiet, you. There's nothing wromg with quiche.

This is just speculation, but I wonder if the naming behind both Q related things is why they became so popular.

I could not imagine the same amount of searches and guesswork had they called it "P*" instead.

It seems like Q inherently has some mystery to it. Maybe in that is the least commonly used letter and it rarely is used separately from "Qu"

I've run ollama on my macbook, watched a couple videos on prompt engineering, tried out stable diffusion on my phone. I am even working on a startup that is basically a shiny website plus an OpenAI API wrapper on the backend. What do you mean I am not qualified to speculate on what Q* from OpenAI is and how it is transformational for society!!?? /s

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