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Re: I Am Tired of AI

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Post by immibis »

rasulkireev wrote: post #596
ookdatnog wrote: post #162

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Writing a text of decent quality used to constitute proof of work. This is now no longer the case, and we haven't adapted to this assumption becoming invalid. For example, when applying to a job, your cover letter used to count as proof of work. The contents are less important than the fact that you put some amount of effort in it, enough to prove that you care about this specific vacancy. Now this basic assumption h…

Great opportunity to get ahead of all the lazy people who use AI for a cover letter. Do a video! Sure, AI will be able to do that soon, but then we (not lazy people, who care) will come up with something even more personal!

I've seen people make custom circuit boards as business cards - from LED flashers up to USB hubs.

Re: I Am Tired of AI

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Post by DrillShopper »

goatlover wrote: post #599
DrillShopper wrote: post #509

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> Why do you say people have to do it? Gotta eat, yo

Somehow people made enough to eat before LLMs became all the rage a couple years ago. I suspect people are still making enough to eat without having to use LLMs.

The existence of LLMs in the market will push real wages down and then the people currently making a living we be faced with three main choices. Choice 1 - embrace the chaos and start using LLMs to help you work so you can churn out more cOnTeNt to survive. Choice 2 - don't embrace the chaos by starting to use LLMs and just work more hours of the day to match the output of the machine. Choice 3 - leave writing and either join another profession or start delivering for Uber.

Re: I Am Tired of AI

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Post by hbn »

cubefox wrote: post #782
hbn wrote: post #530

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When he said this was he imagining an "elderly but distinguished scientist" who is riding an insanely inflated bubble of hype and a bajillion dollars of VC backing that incentivize him to make these claims?

What are you talking about? How would Hinton be incentivized by money?

I'm talking about Altman.

Re: I Am Tired of AI

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Post by 8338550bff96 »

latexr wrote: post #784
8338550bff96 wrote: post #480

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Flying is a good analogy. Superman couldn't fly, but at some point when you can jump so far there isn't much of a difference

There is an enormous difference. Flying allows you to stop, change direction, make corrections, and target with a large degree of accuracy. Jumping leaves you at the mercy of your initial calculations. If you jumped in a way that you’ll land inside a volcano, all you can do in your last moments is watch and wait for your demise.

A volcano can't kill superman. Rebuttal rejected

Re: I Am Tired of AI

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Post by farts_mckensy »

goatlover wrote: post #602
farts_mckensy wrote: post #512

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>But what I had never noticed until now is that knowing that a human being was behind the written words (however flawed they can be, and hopefully are) is crucial for me. Everyone is going to have to get over that very soon, or they're going to start sounding like those old puritanical freaks who thought Elvis thrusting his hips around was the work of the devil.

Those two things don't sound at all similar. We don't have to get over wanting to communicate with humans online.

They don't sound similar because the former has been fully integrated into culture while the latter is still a strange, alien phenomenon.

Re: I Am Tired of AI

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Post by arendtio »

Toorkit wrote: post #14

Computers were supposed to be these amazing machines that are super precise. You tell it to do a thing, it does it. Nowadays, it seems we're happy with computers apparently going RNG mode on everything. 2+2 can now be 5, depending on the AI model in question, the day, and the temperature...

But isn't this a great thing? I mean, this piece has been missing (no, I am not kidding). Computers have always had a hard time coping with situations that weren't 100% predefined.

Now, we have technology capable of handling cases that were not predefined. Yes, it makes mistakes, as do humans, but the range of problems we can solve with technology has been tremendously broadened.

The problem is how we apply AI. Currently, we throw LLMs on everything they might be able to handle without understanding how or if they have the capabilities to handle such a task. And that is not the LLM's fault but a human fault. Consequently, we see poor results, and then we blame the AI for not being able to solve a problem it wasn't designed to solve.

Sounds stupid, doesn't it?

Re: I Am Tired of AI

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Post by marttt »

nils-m-holm wrote: post #560
low_tech_love wrote: post #539

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Amazing! Do you feel any pressure from your environment? And are you self-funded? I am also thinking about starting my first book.

What I write is pretty niche anyway (compilers, LISP, buddhism, advaita), so I do not think AI will cause much trouble. Google ranking small websites into oblivion, though, I do notice that!

I know your website by heart, so it is low-tech-bookmarked for life :), and I check in fairly often. Your work and general views are very inspiring.

Re: I Am Tired of AI

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Post by BehindBlueEyes »

dietr1ch wrote: post #163
roenxi wrote: post #129

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> While the professional looking text could have been already wrong, the likelihood was smaller... I don't criticise you for it, because that strategy is both rational and popular. But you never checked the accuracy of your information before so you have no way of telling if it has gotten more or less accurate with the advent of AI. You were testing for whether someone of high social intelligence wanted you to believ…

I guess the complaint is about losing this proxy to gain some assurance for little cost. We humans are great at figuring out the least amount of work that's good enough. Now we'll need to be fully diligent, which means more work, and also there'll be way more things to review.

My new cheap proxy to save mental cost: pay to search on kagi, sort results by tracker count. My hope is fewer trackers correlates with lower incentives to seo spam. This may change but seems to work decently for now.

Re: I Am Tired of AI

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Post by khafra »

kranner wrote: post #356
khafra wrote: post #339

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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

Reality has now corrected my error, which was amongst the funniest possible outcomes.
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