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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 15 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

AI fans are people who literally cannot tell good from bad. They cannot see the defects that are obvious to everyone else. They do not believe there is such a thing as quality, they think it's a scam. When you claim you can tell good from bad, they think you're lying.

[–] diz@awful.systems 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They're also very gleeful about finally having one upped the experts with one weird trick.

Up until AI they were the people who were inept and late at adopting new technology, and now they get to feel that they're ahead (because this time the new half-assed technology was pushed onto them and they didn't figure out they needed to opt out).

[–] HedyL@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago

Up until AI they were the people who were inept and late at adopting new technology, and now they get to feel that they’re ahead

Exactly. It is also a new technology that requires far fewer skills to use than previous new technologies. The skills are needed to critically scrutinize the output - which in this case leads to less lazy people being more reluctant to accept the technology.

On top of this, AI fans are being talked into believing that their prompting as such is a special “skill”.

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago

They string words together based on the probability of one word following another.
They are heavily promoted by people that don't know what they're doing.
They're wrong 70% of the time but promote everything they say as truth.
Average people have a hard time telling when they're wrong.

In other words, AIs are BS automated BS artists... being promoted breathlessly by BS artists.

[–] HedyL@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago

That's why I find the narrative that we should resist working with LLMs because we would then train them and enable them to replace us problematic. That would require LLMs to be capable of doing so. I don't believe in this (except in very limited domains such as professional spam). This type of AI is problematic because its abilities are completely oversold (and because it robs us of our time, wastes a lot of power and pollutes the entire internet with slop), not because it is "smart" in any meaningful way.