I'm sorry but as an MLE this is not a remotely useful article, and does not belong on the front page.
It's comparing a fine-tuned CNN to general purpose models on a tiny dataset.
It's comparing a fine-tuned CNN to general purpose models on a tiny dataset.
I don't think we should need to be reminded that frontier models aren't particularly good at most tasks. Just like we shouldn't need to be reminded that a hammer is not particularly good for driving a screw, or writing an essay.
It's an admission of magical thinking about a tool that's made out of the same material of every other digital tool since the invention of computing.
It's at the forebrain of every executive in America that LLMs imbued with RLHF are on the cusp of replacing every job they can imagine, from robot chauffeurs to carpenters to surgeons. But as this paper suggests, the integration of generally capable vision systems with basic tool handling that will be needed to replace the specific skills essential to most human jobs -- especially using only today's frontier models -- still takes us unforeseeably and undeniably far into the realm of sheer fantasy.
I will not flag it because the post is fine, it's the voters who I believe are acting poorly.