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Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by bsoles »

boolit wrote: post #52
Jensson wrote: post #41

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> I'd say I'm getting 10x more non technical business advice in multiple areas than I'm getting with the technical stuff. Probably in large part because you can't verify when its wrong since that isn't your area of expertise, so those advice looks better to you. You should assume your org will be the same quality as a program written by a non-technical person using an LLM if you do it that way.

This is a critical insight. Whenever I ask an LLM about a topic I’m knowledgeable about, I can detect that it spews a load of nonsense. Talking to people in other fields, e.g., history and literature, they say it’s the same for them. LLMs are only useful if you know the topic you’re asking questions about. Otherwise, they generate so much nonsense that you cannot verify, that trusting it becomes a liability.

This seems like a good example of Gell-Mann amnesia as it applies to LLMs instead of journalism.

People are falling into the same trap of accepting authoritative sounding advice as true in an area they are not experts in.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by raincole »

vessenes wrote: post #53
lettergram wrote: post #33

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> We'll have a core directable glued-together stack that can take instruction like "make me a shopify site to sell cute mini traffic cones that are oscar-the-grouch themed, but make sure they don't violate any copyright themes, make me 100 ads to sell them" by the end of 2024 lol I’d be VERY surprised if they can do that by the end of 2030. 1. You need relationships with manufacturers to do that 2. You need to valida…

I think you're very wrong about this timeline. 1. I've never sourced hardware, so I can't comment directly on manufacturers. I have done plenty of business in Asia, and, I have purchased from alibaba. One side of those alibaba transactions is definitely using AI translation already. I don't think manufacturers in Asia will care at all "who" is sourcing product from them. For speccing a car - sure, you're right that a…

> Trivially done by an AI; "Mr. Bossman do you want to validate this sample, or have me hire someone to do it?"

I honestly don't understant this sentence. If you hire someone to do it then it's not "trivially done by an AI", no?

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by tossandthrow »

anileated wrote: post #74
tossandthrow wrote: post #68

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Wow This is extremely rude and downright uncomfortable to read on a forum where people are supposed to be curious. Who tf do you think you are?

“Let me just use a glorified autocomplete instead of learning a subject domain or craft” seems like the opposite of hacker spirit and curiosity.

I would love to understand this better.

Why do you think it is anti-curiosity to use LLMs?

The original commenter did not say they used it for producing content, so and auto complete is not really precise, is it?

You could say that it is an advanced, stochastic knowledge-retrieval system. Does the workings of such merit your curiosity? Does the workings of compression algorithms merit your curiosity?

Or are you merely and ignorant person already left behind due to your own inability to be curious?

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by timnetworks »

mirsadm wrote: post #73
sebzim4500 wrote: post #57

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Depends what the topic is. IME it hallucines rarely when asked practical programming questions but basically constantly when asked math questions beyond basic calculus.

It constantly invents functions that don't exist.

Deal with it like Wolfram, implement those functions! It's picking up on something. :D

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by shmel »

thih9 wrote: post #69
aussieguy1234 wrote: post #37

Software engineer here trying to start a startup. The amount of business advice GPT-4 has given me is immeasurable. I'd say I'm getting 10x more non technical business advice in multiple areas than I'm getting with the technical stuff. Kind of like an AI CEO advising me on what to do next.

Can you give a specific example? I’m curious if it was useful because of the AI’s skills, or perhaps it was the conversation itself that helped, like in rubber duck debugging[1] or journaling. In any case, interested to hear more details. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

I find ChatGPT incredibly useful to learn the vocabulary of an unfamiliar area. Often basic information in the area I know very little about can be found easily once you know the right keywords. Even if ChatGPT gets something wrong, it does pattern matching well enough to tell me something like "yes, there is a well-known concept that matches your vague noob description, it is called X". It works well in CS where I have an intuition there must be a mathematical abstraction/algorithm that solves my problem, but I don't know the name. Once I learn the keywords, I sometimes find an open-source library for that or at least a high-level description of the algorithm.

It is also great at answering stupid questions. Sometimes I read a wikipedia article and don't understand enough to make sense of it. If I was in uni, I would have asked a prof: "Sorry, it is probably a very stupid question, but why X? and what is Y actually?" ChatGPT can give me ELI5 at pretty much anything and is faster than googling.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by hifromwork »

anileated wrote: post #74
tossandthrow wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow This is extremely rude and downright uncomfortable to read on a forum where people are supposed to be curious. Who tf do you think you are?

“Let me just use a glorified autocomplete instead of learning a subject domain or craft” seems like the opposite of hacker spirit and curiosity.

"Let's learn this new modern tool and how I can utilise it to fulfill my goals, while avoiding its shortcomings and flaws" sounds like the epitome of hacker spirit and curiosity. "Let's discredit this new technology as glorified autocomplete, and pretend it doesn't exist" is the opposite.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by anileated »

tossandthrow wrote: post #83
anileated wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Let me just use a glorified autocomplete instead of learning a subject domain or craft” seems like the opposite of hacker spirit and curiosity.

I would love to understand this better. Why do you think it is anti-curiosity to use LLMs? The original commenter did not say they used it for producing content, so and auto complete is not really precise, is it? You could say that it is an advanced, stochastic knowledge-retrieval system. Does the workings of such merit your curiosity? Does the workings of compression algorithms merit your curiosity? Or are you merel…

It sounded like the author is not trying to learn, say, how to run a business, but instead just proxies output of an unthinking tool. After the former, you come out with new knowledge and skill. After the latter, you come out none the wiser.

> Does the workings of such merit your curiosity?

Not really, if the workings of such are well-understood (like in case of LLMs).

> Or are you merely and ignorant person already left behind

You think you are mounting a personal attack that would make me feel humiliated, but you need to check who would be ignorant after what I outlined in the beginning of my comment.

Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by [deleted] »

aussieguy1234 wrote: post #37

Software engineer here trying to start a startup. The amount of business advice GPT-4 has given me is immeasurable. I'd say I'm getting 10x more non technical business advice in multiple areas than I'm getting with the technical stuff. Kind of like an AI CEO advising me on what to do next.

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Re: If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO

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Post by shmel »

anileated wrote: post #74
tossandthrow wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow This is extremely rude and downright uncomfortable to read on a forum where people are supposed to be curious. Who tf do you think you are?

“Let me just use a glorified autocomplete instead of learning a subject domain or craft” seems like the opposite of hacker spirit and curiosity.

Do you feel the same about using search engines to learn literally anything? What about youtube learning channels? What about the documentation? You know, hackers from the past could write amazing things in assembly using only an outdated book on a somewhat related subject (if any at all). We have invented internet to share knowledge as quickly as possible. ChatGPT is the next step.

What does a true Scotsman, sorry, hacker have to do? Go to a remote place and rediscover the entire human knowledge for 20 years?

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