The fact that so many are skeptical or state that it us a deal breaker is wild to me. I use AI as an assistant for so many tasks and forecasts. Learn it now or be left behind.
I’m not against it but I’m not particularly interested at this point. I haven’t come up with any reason to use it other than generating a few silly images. The AI stuff at the top of Google searches is hit or miss. Right now I think a lot of it is marketing because no company wants to be the one without AI.
My biggest concern is how much power/water AI usage is consuming. Also it annoys me when people use it as a replacement for actual research. It’s just predictive text, it doesn’t “know” or “understand” anything.
@Jamileigh17 Correct. “AI” has been around since before I was born. It should have been called “simulated intelligence” because it can give the appearance of thinking. “Artificial” things can often substitute (sometimes poorly) for the real stuff - like artificial vanilla and sweeteners for orchid pods and sugar cane. AI just carries out programming written by humans. It cannot (and may never be able to) substitute for human thinking. There are areas where it is useful, but those are limited. And the data centers running chatbots and digital currencies use masses of clean water and electricity. Communities that welcomed what they thought were “clean computer” businesses now deeply regret it. NIMBY.
Hopefully it’s just a bubble that bursts soon. It’s a scourge that doesn’t even make money, it’s theft, and its just awful for the environment.
Also it’s not even AI, that’s just a buzzword to make it seem futuristic.
@Nebulium As the results it generates become more recursively reinforced until it’s worse than a brown-nosed yes-drone that merely acts as a spin doctor to justify the user’s preferred intent, the entire model will fall apart under the failures it will inevitably induce. That’s because it fundamentally is not actually “intelligent”. We are so far away from an actual artificial intelligence that we don’t really know what one looks like. I doubt that we’ll find one in my lifetime, for all that those in power will increasingly seek to have their opinions validated by AI confirmation bias. We’ve just scaled up the scope of the age-old “it came from a computer therefore it’s accurate” misconception error, and set ourselves up for the most massive structural collapse in history.
I look forward to lining up the reality-insensitive MBAs at the wall when the day comes.
I think it’s fantastic for some purposes and terrible for others. I think there definitely need to be restrictions on its use, but I don’t think it’s happening fast enough.
@Kyeh Amen to the need for restrictions on its use; at the very least, “I just did what the AI said I should” needs to become as inadmissible as “I was just following orders” when assessing responsibility and culpability for fuckups.
@Kyeh@werehatrack They are starting to use it for visit notes from doctor apts. Research indicates it is usually fine for something simple but with more complex cases it messes up. I think some doctors will let AI to its thing and never go back to fix it. Scary thought.
To me, “AI-powered” means it likely goes out to the cloud to figure things out, offer “help,” etc. which means user privacy is probably comprised. That’s enough to make me not want to buy the thing.
I consider it marketing wankery.
@cengland0 “wankery”
my thoughts on AI
AI is fun and useful but not everything needs AI.
AI - is going to be a game changer - After 10 years AI will be driving of the things
The fact that so many are skeptical or state that it us a deal breaker is wild to me. I use AI as an assistant for so many tasks and forecasts. Learn it now or be left behind.
@user88510772 I just want a helper monkey
https://imgur.com/a/cMf8e9x
I’m not against it but I’m not particularly interested at this point. I haven’t come up with any reason to use it other than generating a few silly images. The AI stuff at the top of Google searches is hit or miss. Right now I think a lot of it is marketing because no company wants to be the one without AI.
My biggest concern is how much power/water AI usage is consuming. Also it annoys me when people use it as a replacement for actual research. It’s just predictive text, it doesn’t “know” or “understand” anything.
@Jamileigh17 Correct. “AI” has been around since before I was born. It should have been called “simulated intelligence” because it can give the appearance of thinking. “Artificial” things can often substitute (sometimes poorly) for the real stuff - like artificial vanilla and sweeteners for orchid pods and sugar cane. AI just carries out programming written by humans. It cannot (and may never be able to) substitute for human thinking. There are areas where it is useful, but those are limited. And the data centers running chatbots and digital currencies use masses of clean water and electricity. Communities that welcomed what they thought were “clean computer” businesses now deeply regret it. NIMBY.
Hopefully it’s just a bubble that bursts soon. It’s a scourge that doesn’t even make money, it’s theft, and its just awful for the environment.
Also it’s not even AI, that’s just a buzzword to make it seem futuristic.
@Nebulium As the results it generates become more recursively reinforced until it’s worse than a brown-nosed yes-drone that merely acts as a spin doctor to justify the user’s preferred intent, the entire model will fall apart under the failures it will inevitably induce. That’s because it fundamentally is not actually “intelligent”. We are so far away from an actual artificial intelligence that we don’t really know what one looks like. I doubt that we’ll find one in my lifetime, for all that those in power will increasingly seek to have their opinions validated by AI confirmation bias. We’ve just scaled up the scope of the age-old “it came from a computer therefore it’s accurate” misconception error, and set ourselves up for the most massive structural collapse in history.
I look forward to lining up the reality-insensitive MBAs at the wall when the day comes.
I think it’s fantastic for some purposes and terrible for others. I think there definitely need to be restrictions on its use, but I don’t think it’s happening fast enough.
@Kyeh Amen to the need for restrictions on its use; at the very least, “I just did what the AI said I should” needs to become as inadmissible as “I was just following orders” when assessing responsibility and culpability for fuckups.
@Kyeh @werehatrack They are starting to use it for visit notes from doctor apts. Research indicates it is usually fine for something simple but with more complex cases it messes up. I think some doctors will let AI to its thing and never go back to fix it. Scary thought.
To me, “AI-powered” means it likely goes out to the cloud to figure things out, offer “help,” etc. which means user privacy is probably comprised. That’s enough to make me not want to buy the thing.