I don't hate AI. That's pointless. I hate the people who use AI to ruin everything, which is the majority of AI users today.
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I think you're being too literal, they mean they hate having to use it or they hate being constantly exposed to its shitty output. Obviously pretty much nobody hates, like, Markov chains.
I reserve the hate (well, severe disdain and contempt, hate is personal in my book, haven't needed it for quite a while) for the C-Suites and owners, users get contempt if they're using it to think for them and a pass with some sympathy if they've found a way to use it as a tool while retaining executive function. LLMs and broader machine learning are fine, just a tool. You can use a wrench constructively or give someone a concussion, that's on you.
SamA is the exception, hate that market cornering fucker (and yes it's personal, I was going to go AM5 this year).
People around me use AI all the time to get answers to generalized topics. More and more they use it like a search engine / information augmentation system.
They are not technical people. They mostly know that the information needs to be double checked and might be wrong. But usually take it in face value if the importance is low.
Honestly this is about what they did before. They would search Google, click on the first blog, take it as the word of God, and claim to have "done their research".
I too use AI regularly for brainstorming, quickly summarizing massive text messages people send me, etc.
I don't love it or hate it. In some cases it saves a lot of time and is useful tool. In other cases it outputs trash that we cannot use for any serious case.
Just like a hammer or a shovel, it's a tool. Can be used the right way and it can be used the wrong way.
I think of an LLM as extraordinarily lossy compression. All the training data is essentially encoded in the model. You can get an approximation of the data back out again with the right input.
I don't think it's any less reliable that random blogs on the web, and I don't have to wear through SEO tripe either.
Do I love my 4-year-old? Yes
Would I let my precocious 4-year-old full of imagination write my business report? Fuck no. Are you stupid or what?
McKinsey isn't exactly stupid, its amorality run amok and a culture of cutthroats.
Some people I work with when they do an internet search they go straight to the ai info. Literally read out the first bit of what's there and take that as the truth.
I don't hate AI I like it for a lot to things. It is especially awesome at writing 1 off scripts/small projects or allowing me to test multiple different versions of a programming solution to see what one I like most. I use it to search the web and search my own knowledge database. Its an awesome tool. I get why people would hate it having it shoved down their throats all the time but that's not a problem I ever have to deal with cos almost everything I run is a full foss stack.