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AI is a horse (2024)

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Re: AI is a horse (2024)

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Post by automatic6131 »

latexr wrote: post #10
oliwary wrote: post #8

"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets you to the thing." My favorite quote from the excellent show halt and catch fire. Maybe applicable to AI too?

Something like that used to be Apple’s driving force under Steve Jobs (definitely no longer under Tim Cook). https://youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o&t=1m54s > You’ve go to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it.

> You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it.

If those LLM addicts could read, they'd be very upset!

Re: AI is a horse (2024)

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Post by direwolf20 »

latexr wrote: post #10
oliwary wrote: post #8

"Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets you to the thing." My favorite quote from the excellent show halt and catch fire. Maybe applicable to AI too?

Something like that used to be Apple’s driving force under Steve Jobs (definitely no longer under Tim Cook). https://youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o&t=1m54s > You’ve go to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it.

That works when you are starting a new company from scratch to solve a problem. When you're established and your boffins discover a new thing, of course you find places to use it. It's the expression problem with business: when you add a new customer experience you intersect it with all existing technology, and when you add a new technology you intersect it with all existing customer experience.

Re: AI is a horse (2024)

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Post by direwolf20 »

smitty1e wrote: post #4

"I've been through the desert On AI with no name It felt good to be out of the rAIn In the desert, you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain"

you forgot to write pAIn and it reminded me of this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nt9mRDa0nrc

Re: AI is a horse (2024)

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Post by brador »

If an AI aims at the thing we call it hallucinations, when humans do it we call the delusion goal setting.

Either way it is an imagined end point that has no bearing in known reality.

Re: AI is a horse (2024)

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Post by hkt »

automatic6131 wrote: post #11
latexr wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something like that used to be Apple’s driving force under Steve Jobs (definitely no longer under Tim Cook). https://youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o&t=1m54s > You’ve go to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it.

> You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it. If those LLM addicts could read, they'd be very upset!

ChatGPT, tell me how I should feel about this!

Re: AI is a horse (2024)

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Post by [deleted] »

hkt wrote: post #19
automatic6131 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to try to sell it. If those LLM addicts could read, they'd be very upset!

ChatGPT, tell me how I should feel about this!

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