The phony comforts of AI skepticism
It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous
It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous
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It's real and it's dangerous, but it's also fake and it sucks.
I honestly doubt I would ever pay for this shit. I'll use it fine but ive noticed actual serious problematic "hallucinations" that shocked the hell out of me to the point i think it has a hopeless signal/noise problem to the point it could never be serially accurate and trusted
I've had two useful applications of "AI".
One is using it to explain programming frameworks, libraries, and language features. In these cases it's sometimes wrong or outdated, but it's easy to test and check to make sure if it's right. Extremely valuable in this case! It basically just sums up what everybody already said, so it's easier and more on-point than doing a google search.
The other is writing prompts and getting it to make insane videos. In this case all I want is the hallucinations! It makes some stupid insane stuff. But the novelty wears off quick and I just don't care any more.
I will say the coding shit is good stuff ironically. But I would still have to run the code and make sure its sound. In terms of anythint citation-wise tho, its completely sus af
It has straight up made up damn citations that I could have come up with to escape interrogation during a panned 4th grade presentation to a skeptical audience
But I would still have to run the code and make sure its sound.
Oh I don't get it to write code for me. I just get it to explain stuff.
I've been using AI to troubleshoot/learn after switching from Windows -> Linux 1.5 years ago. It has given me very poor advice occasionally, but it has taught me a lot more valuable info. This is not dissimilar to my experience following tutorials on the internet...
I honestly doubt I would ever pay for this shit.
I understand your perspective. Personally, I think that there's a chicken/egg situation where free AI versions are a subpar representation that makes skeptics view AI as a whole as over-hyped. OTOH, the people who use the better models experience the benefits first hand, but are seen as AI zealots that are having the wool pulled over there eyes.