My main reservation with AI tools for generating code isn't so much an issue with the technology, but rather and issue with us. People keep forgetting that they're not actually intelligent and assume that everything it gives them is correct, when in fact they're quite often wrong in very subtle ways.
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#12Zero. The world is now
That was 3 hours ago. The world is now the same place at a different time, or the same time at a different place.
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#13TOFTS
Too old for this shit.
(yes, that's a personal problem and doesn't relate to the merit of the technology)
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#14It creates a level of feature dependency on another company that makes me uncomfortable. It shouldn't because we already depend on products like HubSpot, Plausible, Pendo, and AWS. This feels different though; AI is far more integrated, like a serious drug addiction.
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#15I prefer HI (human intelligence)
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#16Consumer GPUs made matrix multiplications orders of magnitudes cheaper and the resulting new wave of AIs are unlocking new cognitive capabilities by just throwing money to the problem, in a way that scales to billions of dollars. This is different than how things were before. Now the capabilities are pretty much just limited by how many AI acceleration chips can be made at TSMC and Samsung or wherever, and by how many billions of dollars of capital can be spent to buy them. Also using these tools isn't any kind of choice, it would be like early humans wondering what reservations or criticism we have regarding the use of speech or writing.
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#17Well, judging by the abysmal quality of the "AI art" coming out, the limitation on creativity is clearly not technological. The limitation is the lack of creativity coming from these artists. As such, the predictions that AI will "replace all artists" is obviously way overblown. At best, it will be a helpful tool, along the lines of Photoshop or After Effects.
As someone who has no artistic ability I am genuinely impressed with the art coming out of it.
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#18Nobody mentioned crime. It will increase crime, a lot. Healthcare is another area that’s going to get hit hard but not getting enough focus.
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#19My main reservation with AI tools for generating code isn't so much an issue with the technology, but rather and issue with us. People keep forgetting that they're not actually intelligent and assume that everything it gives them is correct, when in fact they're quite often wrong in very subtle ways.
This exactly.
I know human nature, and that is what is concerning about AI.
Right now, most people have lived in a world where LLMs didn't exist. They know not to trust them as an oracle of truth. They know they are flawed and have counter-examples to back up any claim that responses are incorrect. They will second-guess the results, and may consider that the results could biased based on a flawed or limited data set.
If LLMs stick around, this situation may be different. As technology matures, it gets incorporated into living and thoughts of its users. Distrust transitions into trust given exposure and time. People forget the basis (and of the limitations inherent to) the underpinnings of the tech they use all the time.
That's what terrifies me: a world where people stop actively thinking and delegate decision-making to a language model built from flawed data. It's just so convenient to delegate. Not questioning is so much easier than questioning.
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#20Well, judging by the abysmal quality of the "AI art" coming out, the limitation on creativity is clearly not technological. The limitation is the lack of creativity coming from these artists. As such, the predictions that AI will "replace all artists" is obviously way overblown. At best, it will be a helpful tool, along the lines of Photoshop or After Effects.
As someone who has no artistic ability I am genuinely impressed with the art coming out of it.
For sure, it is impressive.
The leap from zero to any positive number is an infinite improvement, but there is a big difference between 2 and 2e6.