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> If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right - Arthur C. Clarke Geoffrey Hinton is a 76 year old Turing Award* winner. What more do you want? *Corrected by kranner
> Geoffrey Hinton is a 76 year old Nobel Prize winner. Turing Award, not Nobel Prize
People talk about 'AI' as if stackoverflow didn't exist. Re-inventing the wheel is something that programmers don't do anymore. Most of the time, someone somewhere has solved the problem that you are solving. Programming earlier used to be about finding these solutions and repurposing them for your needs. Now it has changed to asking AI, the exact question and it being a better search engine. The gains to programming…
Except that you get mostly the wrong answers. And it's not too bad when it's obviously wrong or you already know the answer. It is bad and really bad when you're noob and trying to ask AI about stuff you don't know yet. How would you be able to discern a hallucination from statistics bias from truth?
It is inherent problem of LLMs and no amount of progress would be able to solve it.
And it's only gonna get worse, with human information rapidly being consumed and regurgitated in 100x more volume. In 10 years there will be no google, there won't be the need to find a written article. Instead, you will generate a new one in couple clicks. And we will treat as truth, because there might as well not be any.
I am approaching AI with caution. Shiny things don't generally excite me. Just this week I installed cursor, the AI-assisted VSCode-like IDE. I am working on a side project and decided to give it a try. I am blown away. I can describe the feature I want built, and it generates changes and additions that get me 90% there, within 15 or so seconds. I take those changes, and carefully review them, as if I was doing a cod…
> I can spend my time revieweing and correcting. Do you really like spending most of your time reviewing AI output? I certainly don’t, that’s soul-crushing.
That said, I'm deeply saddened by the fact that I won't be passing on a craft I spent two decades refining.
The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die. It's not so much that I think people have used AI, but that I know they have with a high degree of certainty, and this certainty is converging to 100%, simply because there is no way it will not. If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply…
What fascinates me about your comment is that you are expressing that you trusted what you read before. For me, LLMs don't change anything. I already questioned the information before and continue to do so. Why do you think that you could trust what you read before? Is it now harder for you to distinguish false information, and if so, why?
AI otoh can produce texts that are quite accurate globally with some totally random hallucinations here and there. It makes it quite harder to identify
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>But superhuman AI seems now only few years away Seems unreasonable. You are afraid because marketing gurus like Altman made you believe that a frog that can make bigger leap than before will be able to fly.
> If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right - Arthur C. Clarke Geoffrey Hinton is a 76 year old Turing Award* winner. What more do you want? *Corrected by kranner
I’m tired of farming - Someone in 5000 BC I’m tired of electricity - Someone in 1905 I’m tired of consumer apps - Someone in 2020 The revolution will happen regardless. If you participate you can shape it in the direction you believe in. AI is the most innovative thing to happen in software in a long time. And personally AI is FUN. It sparks joy to code using AI. I don’t need anyone else’s opinion I’m having a blast.…
I'm tired of 3d TV - Someone in 2013 (3D TV, after a big push by the industry in 2010, peaked in 2013, going into a rapid decline with the last hardware being produced in 2016). Sometimes, the hyped thing doesn't catch on, even when the industry really, really wants it to.
I’m tired of farming - Someone in 5000 BC I’m tired of electricity - Someone in 1905 I’m tired of consumer apps - Someone in 2020 The revolution will happen regardless. If you participate you can shape it in the direction you believe in. AI is the most innovative thing to happen in software in a long time. And personally AI is FUN. It sparks joy to code using AI. I don’t need anyone else’s opinion I’m having a blast.…
"I'm tired of the atomic bomb" - Someone in 1945. Oh wait, news flash, not all technological developments are good ones, and we should actually evaluate each one individually. AI is shit, and some people having fun with it does not balance against it's unusually efficacy in turning everything into shit. Choosing to do something because it's fun without regard to the greater consequences is the sort of irresponsibilit…
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It has been incredible to observe how subdued the populace has become with the proliferation of the internet.
Sure, whatever makes you feel smarter than the populace. Tell me now, how do I join the resistance ? Hiding in the sewers I assume. On ne te la fait pas à toi
The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die. It's not so much that I think people have used AI, but that I know they have with a high degree of certainty, and this certainty is converging to 100%, simply because there is no way it will not. If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply…
Even ignoring the AI, if you look at the movies and books that come out these days, their quality is significantly lower than 30-40 years ago (on an average). Maybe people's attention spans and taste is to blame, or maybe people just don't have the money/time/patience to consume quality work... I do not know.
One thing I know for sure - there is enough high quality material written before AI, before article spinners, before MFA sites etc. We would need multiple lifetimes to even scratch the surface of that body of work. We can ignore mostly everything that is published these days and we won't be missing much
I don't think there has ever been a single tech news that brought me joy in all my life. First I learned how to use computers, and then it has been downhill ever since.
Right now my greatest joy is in finding things that STILL exist rather than new things, because the things that still exist are generally better than anything new.