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The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) "Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet."

I propose a fourth: AI is now as good as it's going to get, and that's neither as good nor as bad as its fans and haters think, and you're still not going to get an A on your report.

You see, now that people have been using AI for everything and anything, they're beginning to realize that its results, while fast and sometimes useful, tend to be mediocre.

My take is LLMs can speed up some work, like paraphrasing, but all the time that gets saved is diverted to verifying the output.

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 8 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

My take:

Great for helping with coding tasks (especially the boring grunt work) - with proper context and training! You have to put in the work to get better, more relevant results
Pretty useless for everything else. I’ve tested it out for everyday tasks and it didn’t offer enough for me to really lean into.

[–] AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I've only tried a handful of times, but I've never been able to get an LLM to do a grunt refactoring task that didn't require me to rewrite all the output again anyway.

[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

And you can do a lot of that with good IDEs.

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