AI needs to stop

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It has represented over 1000 people so far.

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I think there's specific industrial problems for which AI is indeed transformative.

Just one example that I'm aware of is the AI-accelerated nazca lines survey that revealed many more geoglyphs that we were not previously aware of.

However, this type of use case just isn't relevant to most people who's reliance on LLMs is "write an email to a client saying xyz" or "summarise this email that someone sent to me".

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Thanks for the kind words, have fun “leveraging machine learning techniques” to “figure out” how much detergent you need

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Probably, but voting isn't supposed to mean, "I agree with what this blurb says." It's supposed to mean, "I think this topic is worth discussing.."

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You forgot the phase immediately preceding AI: 3d prints.

I mean, in this decade, I've heard of car and airplanes being marketed as having 3d printed parts.

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You're fooling yourself if you really think everyone hates it.

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I think AI is a great tool if used properly. However, it should be a background tool. The second you advertise it to the end consumer, it's going to be dogshit.

If someone asks me to build a sort-function for their table, I'm not gonna write an email: "Yes and I actually used radix sort for the table contents which makes it extremely fast and performant!!!". I'm writing: "Done".

The end consumer doesn't give a shit how it works, as long as it works.

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Yes. Microsoft Recall were a great idea..

Sarcasm

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That's really neat, thanks for sharing that example.

In my field (biochemistry), there are also quite a few truly awesome use cases for LLMs and other machine learning stuff, but I have been dismayed by how the hype train on AI stuff has been working. Mainly, I just worry that the overhyped nonsense will drown out the legitimately useful stuff, and that the useful stuff may struggle to get coverage/funding once the hype has burnt everyone out.

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I love these technical discussions. Just kicking each other in the nuts over and over.

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the people who matter, love it.

read "shareholders"

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Yeah, it's a lot like piss in a river. I just drink around the piss.

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I suspect that this is "grumpy old man" type thinking, but my concern is the loss of fundamental skills.

As an example, like many other people I've spent the last few decades developing written communication skills, emailing clients regarding complex topics. Communication requires not only an understanding of the subject, but an understanding of the recipient's circumstances, and the likelihood of the thoughts and actions that may arise as a result.

Over the last year or so I've noticed my assistants using LLMs to draft emails with deleterious results. This use in many cases reduces my thinking feeling experienced and trained assistant to an automaton regurgitating words from publicly available references. The usual response to this concern is that my assistants are using the tool incorrectly, which is certainly the case, but my argument is that the use of the tool precludes the expenditure of the requisite time and effort to really learn.

Perhaps this is a kind of circular argument, like why do kids need to learn handwriting when nothing needs to be handwritten.

It does seem as though we're on a trajectory towards stupider professional services though, where my bot emails your bot who replies and after n iterations maybe they've figured it out.

ozoned

Containerize everything!

Crypto everything!

NFT everything!

Metaverse everything!

This too shall pass.

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I think most can agree that AI has some great use cases, but I also think most people dont want AI in their damn toaster.

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a rite of passage for your work to become so liked by others that they take your ideas,

ChatGPT is not a person.

People learn from the works they see [...] and that is what AI does as well.

ChatGPT is not a person.

It's actually really easy: we can say that chatgpt, which is not a person, is also not an artist, and thus cannot make art.

The mathematical trick of putting real images into a blender and then outputting a Legally Distinct one does not absolve the system of its source material.

but are instead weaving it into their process to the point it is not even clear AI was used at the end.

The only examples of AI in media that I like are ones that make it painfully obvious what they're doing.

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That's so fucking weird wtf. Do you work for Elon Musk or something lmao

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Oh yeah, I'm pretty worried about that from what I've seen in biochemistry undergraduate students. I was already concerned about how little structured support in writing science students receive, and I'm seeing a lot of over reliance on chatGPT.

With emails and the like, I find that I struggle with the pressure of a blank page/screen, so rewriting a mediocre draft is immensely helpful, but that strategy is only viable if you're prepared to go in and do some heavy editing. If it were a case of people honing their editing skills, then that might not be so bad, but I have been seeing lots of output that has the unmistakable chatGPT tone.

In short, I think it is definitely "grumpy old man" thinking, but that doesn't mean it's not valid (I say this as someone who is probably too young to be a grumpy old crone yet)

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when we're in the midst of another bull run.

Oh, that's nice. So, who's money are you rug pulling?

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Then they may as well say they did it "with computers."
Oh, but that's not sexy, is it.