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People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying

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Re: People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying

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post #17

Interesting, two anti-AI articles were flagged in around 2-4 hours. Finding no supporting AI articles are flagged. Why?

flagged as what?

Is there somewhere HN tells you that? For me theres just a "[flagged]" next to the title.

Re: People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying

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post #20

Stross in Reddit, five days ago https://np.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1vbtdga/what_is_... >: >The current generative AI is just spicy autocomplete on steroids—doing phrase and paragraph level prediction rather than character/word level prediction. It doesn't "answer" questions, it just extrapolates the statistically most likely answer-shaped string based on its training set. My reply: >How do you explain the mu…

Very simple. Out of 9000 garbage assessment, you end up with one correct proof, which from what i read is not really human-readable/elegant as such.

This is to be expected out of a slop machine that has no notion of higher level concepts.

No one claimed autocomplete-on-steroids could not have any use. Some of us claim the cons (destruction of the planet, destruction of human though capabilities) infinitely outweigh the pros (you solved a useless mathematical problem or built yet another note-taking app, congratulations!)

Re: People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

flagged as what?

Is there somewhere HN tells you that? For me theres just a "[flagged]" next to the title.

I understand now. Flagged means inappropiate for Hacker News. Yeah, they always flag any article that is anti-AI - even if it is well reasoned
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