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I don't want anything your AI generates

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Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by madrox »

echelon wrote: post #7
BriggyDwiggs42 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buddy a few months is a little bit optimistic

You haven't seen what I've seen. :) There are a lot of groups running towards this goal and it's all going to land at once.

In my experience, "the first 80% is easy; the second 80% is hard." It's very easy to get caught up in the hype and think we're closer than we are because we can see the finish line. All this new generative work does a great job of giving compelling demos, but there's way more to do before it becomes compelling media.

Having been through a few of these things in the last 20 years, I'm going to trust my priors before believing AI is all that different.

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Post by spost »

echelon wrote: post #2

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> Modern Luddites can go back to churning their own butter.

The history of the Luddites is actually interestingly parallel to what we're seeing with generative AI these days. The book "Blood in the Machine" talks about this in some detail - there's an interview with the author at https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/01/why-you-should-be-a-l... that is worth reading, and Time has a piece on the book as well: https://time.com/6317437/luddites-ai-blood-in-the-machine-me...

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by ziddoap »

echelon wrote: post #7
BriggyDwiggs42 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buddy a few months is a little bit optimistic

You haven't seen what I've seen. :) There are a lot of groups running towards this goal and it's all going to land at once.

>You haven't seen what I've seen. :)

I rolled my eyes so hard I could almost see my brain.

If you have something pointing towards your claim being true, everyone here would be incredibly interested in seeing it.

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Post by echelon »

nooron wrote: post #8
echelon wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You haven't seen what I've seen. :) There are a lot of groups running towards this goal and it's all going to land at once.

What have you seen? I am really interested as a writer.

Email or Discord me and I'll show you.

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Post by BirAdam »

jdewerd wrote: post #9
BriggyDwiggs42 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buddy a few months is a little bit optimistic

Yeah, but a few years is no longer unthinkable and it will definitely not take a few decades.

Don’t be so sure. AI enthusiasm has existed before with major breakthroughs, and when things didn’t go as well as the hype suggested, it led to AI winter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by RolandFlicket »

My boss “writes” policies etc using ChatGPT. They’re generic, overly wordy and say nothing of original thought. I don’t read them and don’t care. When he sends me a link to them in MS Teams I always click the first auto suggested response Teams like “Looks great!” Machine v machine.

Re: I don't want anything your AI generates

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Post by hospitalJail »

>I can't trust the answers it provides or the text it generates. It's not a replacement for search, it simply makes search worse.

Why is an AI noob upvoted? When the author makes low tech skill claims, I wonder why this made it to the front page.

The person missed the AI train, they decided instead of adapting, they would just Boo it.

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