Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

Post by jiggawatts » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 8:55 PM UTC

crmd wrote: post #290

tomalaci wrote: post #186

You know what AI profiles I want more of? Clueless grandma/grandpa that accepts scammer calls and waste their time. Such as UK's O2 Daisy: https://news.virginmediao2.co.uk/o2-unveils-daisy-the-ai-gra...

There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval. In other words we have a bona fide AI arm…

Post by chis » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 9:03 PM UTC

autoconfig wrote: post #309

jedberg wrote: post #259

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Having worked at a similarly gargantuan and dysfunctional company, I can tell you exactly how this went down. Someone had this idea for AI profiles. They speced the product and took it to engineering. The engineers had a good laugh at how preposterous it is, but then remembered that they get paid a ton of money to do what they're told, and will get promos and bonuses for launching regardless of the outcome. It all st…

That is not at all how things work at Meta. The impact of the things you deliver as an engineer has a direct effect on your performance review. For better or for worse, that also means that engineers have a ton of leverage on deciding what to work on. It's highly unlikely that the engineers working on this were laughing at it while doing so. Don't assume that you can simply pattern match because you've been at anothe…

Post by superq » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 9:04 PM UTC

jiggawatts wrote: post #322

crmd wrote: post #290

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There is another real-world version of this in the US healthcare system, where doctor offices are using domain-specific LLMs to craft multi-page medical approval requests for procedures that cover every known loophole insurer’s use to deny, which are then being reviewed by ML-powered algorithms at the insurance company looking for any way to deny and delay the claim approval. In other words we have a bona fide AI arm…

It’s so bizarre to me that this uniquely US phenomenon of for-profit-middlemen inserted into the healthcare system has resulted in an adverserial relationship between the sick person and the “healthcare provider”. I put that air quotes because insurance companies don’t actually provide health care. They provide insurance. That’s a financial product, not a medical one.

Post by NeutralCrane » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 9:06 PM UTC

mupuff1234 wrote: post #109

rsynnott wrote: post #88

Do they not have anyone sensible left in the room? Like, you’d expect that at some point someone would have said ‘these are comically terrible, we cannot allow them to see the light of day’.

I can't fathom how anyone thought this was a sensible thing. It's so bad I have to wonder if there's a different angle here, maybe they think that releasing something so terribly bad will make it easier when they release something less comically bad? Idk.

Post by kristiandupont » Sat, Jan 04, 2025, 9:08 PM UTC

MrMcCall wrote: post #289

CamperBob2 wrote: post #199

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How did ELIZA do on the Advent of Code?

It hallucinated less, that's for sure, because we know exactly how it works, though I doubt any of the AoC's challenges were suitable for its 1980s logic (that's when I typed in a magazine's C64 version). "There's lies, damned lies, and statistics." --Unknown