1y ago

AI will change the way we do everything. All jobs will be replaced.

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So this is weirder than it looks at a glance.
That is not an LLM-generated search result. That is a funny ha-ha mistake a LLM made that then some guy compiled in his blog about AI.
Google then did their usual content-stealing thing, which probably does involve some ML, but not in the viral ChatGPT way and made that card by quoting the blog quoting the LLM making the mistake. And then everybody quoted that because it's weird and funny and it replicates all the viral paranoia about this stuff.
- Is this how we beat the AI invasion? Data poisoning with memes and jokes?
  
  Yes.
  
  Lol "AI invasion"? If that's what this is you "lost" over a decade ago. LLMs are a massive leap in NLP technology, but AI backs everything already.
  
  John Connor was a shitposter all along.
- How many pieces of media are only remembered for how bad they were?
  
  what are the systoms of being pregarnt?

Hubspot AI chat bot told me to go three levels deep into a menu that doesn't exist, to click a button that doesn't exist to enable a service that doesn't exist to solve a problem I had.
My company pays a 5-figure yearly sum for this service 👍
- The way it was going, I thought you were going to solve a problem you didn't have. Would be fitting.
  
  maybe I should start asking it impossible questions
  "how do I stop contacts from enabling the email flange during the squeej phase of marketing?"
  edit: gottem lmao
- Sounds a lot like when I Google how to do something in Powerpoint.
- I got to review some AI customer service chats and never did I see it handle an issue from start to finish. It was pretty decent at setting the table for the human element. Unfortunately, the human element fails way too often but that’s for another team to solve, lol.

Is there a uBlock filter list for AI SEO websites? If not then I guess I should make one, it would make my life so much easier especially when looking for a product
- I desperately need this. It's gotten to the point where I don't even consider search results from 2023 anymore.
- Sign me right the fuck up
- just saw one referenced yesterday on lemmy, I think. can't find it now

For niche topics, search engine AI is less than worthless. It produces an unacceptably high proportion of misinformation.
- Especially with the built in biases that the companies that use it build in. Try searching for anything that can even tangentially be defined as a product for sale and that is ALL your results are going to show.
- The pronunciation of country names and their spelling is not niche.

This joke is really old now.
And yes, even if such mistakes are funny at first glance, it doesn't change the fact that the field of AI has developed incredibly in the last year. And this development actually has the potential to completely change our economy. And not only that.
No, I'm not fun at parties.
- I mean it's already impacted our economy, a lot of businesses have hemorrhaged money on it: https://siliconangle.com/2023/10/09/report-big-tech-firms-still-struggling-monetize-generative-ai-services/
  
  I wanna see what happens as the inevitable market crash comes!
  
  A lot more companies are making and saving quite a lot of money because of it
  People downplaying the value of AI are like people in 1993 talking about how the Internet is just a playground for nerds.
  
  Ah yes, the trend of every new technological development ever. Apparently investment is "hemorrhaged money" until it's profitable.
- Listen here, robot: Reminder that the Nothing forever hiccup just happened in February of this year. And struggles with POC facial recognition has been a source of discrimination still even now. You’re really trying to sell yourself as better than you are, AI. But you Can’t fool me.
- also, no one said the AI that is going to replace everyone's jobs and kill the economy because we don't have a society or economical system that can survive that amount of job losses inside of it was going to be good, or accurate.
  the goal of ai isn't to be good or accurate, it's to seem plausible.
  
  The history of chatbots for support purposes show us that jobs will be replaced not when they can be done as good, but good enough, and what "enough" means is going to be a race to the bottom kind of situation over time.
- Lemmy is the worst place to get your information on the field of AI or really tech in general lol. "Technology" is a bad word and the only upvoted posts are just false confirmation bias that tech corporations are in some sort if imaginary "death spiral".
  
  Dude for real. Even the "technology" community is just people shitting on everything from eVTOLs to AI, should be called c/luddites instead.
  Most of lemmy doesn't even understand how this shit works let alone has the knowledge to be an authority on it. There's constant "oh this is going to make the company go under, stupid AI can't possibly take our jobs!" Nonsense. Yet the cash keeps rolling in and AI becomes more and more integrated into every company.
  Hell our cloud engineering team is currently building an in house model to assist data entry level workers with accessing the necessary data they need to do their jobs, and my team has used it to set up automated SFTP backups of our network gear.
  It's not going anywhere, and whenever someone says it's useless because you can mislead it intentionally, or that it's just a gimmick cause they "can't see what it's good for," it's a safe bet they're just some gig economy worker who can't conceive of a world outside their bubble.

Kenya doesn't start with K. It actually starts with K. Completely different.

spelled with a "K" sound
I'm not even a linguist but reading this little snippet already makes me want to smash my head against a wall.

No matter how dumb AI is, it will be an improvement over a lot of people.
- You could say the same about can openers or shelves, though 🤷
  
  I'm not sure if you're praising or damning can openers
- It is learning it’s facts from these people. So no.
- And unlike humanity, AI will improve over time.
  
  You have to define improvement with AI.
  And given that AI doesn’t have observational awareness or ability to see it’s surroundings to compare fact from fiction so it takes direct input from users:it will adapt to what it is scraping.
  And if you think it’ll just improve without human interaction for such an objective to be ‘improved’, perhaps you’re one of those people who think becoming a racist bigot spewing hate online where this will get scraped up by AI as an adaptation is ‘an improvement’
  The nothing forever hiccup was a deep lesson on that.
- Man, if you wanted me to cry you could have told me my childhood dog died a second time.

It's always a race to the bottom to create the most content for the least amount of money and effort, isn't it? The problem is, Ai generated content is crap.
"Water can be hot or cold. You shouldn't drink too much of it. Water can be stored in containers so it won't spill. You can cook things in it."
- Damn I've just been waiting for it to rain and standing outside with my mouth open. This container thing is a game changer!

People are being banned off the internet for misinformation and being replaced by AI bots who spout... misinformation.

Please quote me what this character said in this public domain story
Chatgpt: (Quotes wrong character)
No, that is a different character
Chatgpt: (invents hybrid character)
Sends it a link to the public domain text
Chatgpt: I can't follow links
- It's like arguing with a MAGA

Of course there isn’t. And you know the word “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary, either.
- And you know the word “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary, either.
  Yeah it is... It's right here... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gullible
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gullible
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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- Of course it's on the ceiling.
  
  Oh, so it doe-- ahh, you stole my lungs
- Kenya believe it?

This is AI gaslighting .

Its fun when you ask it a question and you counter and it says "You're right".

Obviously it will never get better. Ha ha... Ha...
- It will, but stuff doesn't get better linearly forever. That's why everybody in the 50s thought we'd be living in Mars, have starships and flying cars by now. Also why a bunch of investors and nerds thought AI was the new social media at some point.
  Turns out most things get a lot better very fast and then a little better very slowly, and it's very, very hard to know when that line is going to flip ahead of time.
  
  I do want to point out that while our tech doesnt look as amazing in the same way as the 50's thought it'd be, its pretty amazing in its own ways. I'm writing this message to you on a glass obelisk physically connected to nothing, that enables me to talk to my adopted family on the literal opposite end of the planet with maybe a few seconds of delay (if that), who dont speak the same language as me, and its more than 100,000 times more powerful than the computers thay first got us to the moon, while being small enough to comfortably fit in my pocket
  
  The Jetson's was supposed to take place 100 years from when it was being made in the 1960s.
  Which means the following technologies beat their predictions by decades:
  Video calls
  Robot vacuums
  Tablet computing
  Smart watches
  Drones
  Pill cams
  Flat screen TVs
  Flying cars exist, they just aren't economically viable or practical given the cost, necessity to have a flight license, and aviation regulations regarding takeoff and landing.
  And we're still 40 years away from that show's imagined future.
  Your thesis focuses too much on the things here and there that were wrong, which typically related to expensive hardware cycles being assumed to be faster because the focus was only on the underlying technology being possible and not thinking through if it was practical (doors that slide into the ceiling is a classic example - the cost of retrofitting for that vs keeping doorknobs means the latter will be around for a very very long time).
  What we are discussing is the rate of change for centrally run software which has already hit milestones ahead of expert expectations several times over in the past few years and set the world record for fastest growing new product usage beating the previous record holder by over a 4x speedup.
  You're comparing apples to oranges.
  
  Captain obvious

Yet somehow we'll never get ubi or free healthcare.

Well, gotta say it's improving too fast to joke about it.

Yeah apparently you spell with sounds instead of letters now. IT'S THE FUTURE

Haha they will. Corpos won't care if their products and services are bad or worse through AI; they're de facto monopolists and using AI drives down cost tremendously.
What would they care this leads to a worse society as long as THEY benefit?

Hi,
This bug can easily be fixed by adding a few more dense layers and adding one specific correct input/output to the training set.
Thanks
GPT devs.

Here we have Bard, the Google AI attempting humour

It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this. Interlinked.

I mean, we are already living in a dumb world. Making it dumber won't change things much.

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, not countries!

Yeah op, it will. Just because ai is an idiot sometimes doesn't mean it won't vastly improve. Many jobs will be destroyed, denying it does everyone a disservice
- You are saying destroyed, as if the job itself is a service. Work is cost not value. You automate work so you can use your energy in more valuable ways (best case scenario having a good time and caring for eachother).
  The fruits of automation being distributed unfairly is another story. Inequality is a political reality, not a technical one.
  However luckily this problem will be shortlived probably since we end up like bugs compared to AI real fast...
  
  You are saying destroyed, as if the job itself is a service. Work is cost not value.
  That doesn’t apply to art, though. Artists enjoy their job and are grateful that they can earn a living by doing it, so the job is the service.
  This would not be a problem if we actually had an UBI-like system or the cost of basic living was near zero, but apparently we like getting rid of solutions before finding better ones.
  
  Maybe I'm just high.. but I'm confused about your point. I'm just referring to what capitalism has done over and over. Technology does destroy jobs... Yes it also creates them but can that continue forever?
- They said that about the internet 20 years ago. It created more jobs than there were before.
  
  It also got rid of a metric shit ton of them as well. Like all other economic automation it starts with manual labor being replaced by technical repair and deployment personnel. Then eventually that all becomes automated too.
  In the next 50 years you'll see a whole IT field develop around AI, then slowly it'll phase out low level IT workers and developers until the only people that are left are QA checking on the AI services to ensure functionality.
  
  Explain why buzzfeed shuttered their news division and said they will be focusing on AI.

Kagi filters are a gift from God. 🥹

It will :)

Been pronouncing it wrong my whole life.

Now let's compare a 1 year old machine learning model to a 1 year old human
- I would be pretty mad if my search result turned up a 1 year old human's babbling too. AI babbling doesn't get a pass either.
- I don't have access to software from the early 1970s to conduct the comparison. I can tell you at age 1 my kids could recognize some basic words, could walk a tiny bit, could recognize faces, and handle a spoon to self feed.
  AI learning models are 50 years or so old. That is how you should do the comparison.
- Neutral networks have been a thing 60+ years in the making.

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