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I get where he's coming from as a tech person... I'm old enough to remember chatting to ELIZA and Alicebot. The current state of AI is impressive to me, as well as "worrying" and "destroying the planet" and "being rammed down our throats" and all the other bad stuff.
It's wildly tone deaf of him to say it in the middle of a backlash, though. 😬
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> The current state of AI is impressive to me
Really? Seriously? It's just a fake, every bit as much as ELIZA was -- just with a vastly bigger set of responses it generates on the fly from a vast database of stolen material.
Yes but it's surprisingly convincing given how it actually works. It's more impressive than useful, and it's a huge waste of energy.
As a software engineer who’s recently been using the latest advanced models in my workflow, I think that’s where it is most useful. It’s generally great for more tedious and mundane tasks like writing documentation, or building small functions with explicit inputs and outputs. And while that’s not crazy impressive, that previously was taking up a much larger part of my time, leaving me more time to focus on bigger picture stuff.
That being said, it’s definitely wildly overvalued, and being shoved into everything, often where it makes no sense and is just a glorified chatbot.
It's often wrong too.
This is the part that drives me nuts. It is definitely useful and I've started using it alongside "googling" for answers to specific questions.
But it is not infallible and it's confidently incorrect often enough that I often have to check elsewhere to verify.
Ya, AI as a tool has it's place. I'm currently working on documentation to meet some security compliance frameworks (I work in cybersecurity). Said documentation is going to be made to look pretty and get a check in the box from the auditors. It will then be stored in a SharePoint library to be promptly lost and ignored until the next time we need to hand it over to the auditors. It's paperwork for the sake of paperwork. And I'm going to have AI spit out most of it and just pepper in the important details and iron out the AI hallucinations. Even with the work of fixing the AI's work, it will still take less time than making up all the bullshit on my own. This is what AI is good for. If I actually care about the results, and certainly if I care about accuracy, AI won't be leaned on all that much.
The technology actually it pretty amazing, when you stop and think about it. But, it also often a solution in search of a problem.
Agreed, the natural language input and output are quite good. Everything else not so good.
Why though? It's literally designed to be convincing.
So was Eliza.
Indeed, and it ... worked, in fact still does, exactly as expected.