BYU study: Why some people choose not to use artificial intelligence
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#2Sounds like the answer is FUD.
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#3I don’t use them, yet. Am open to it, but no longer trust most tech companies. Probably an open model in several years on a beefy yet affordable machine I’ve yet to purchase.
Also am at the peak of my game, and automated templates, snippets, and stackoverflow lookup a decade+ ago. I prefer reading a discussion of tradeoffs to approaches before picking one. It may take up to ten more minutes up front but save hours later.
So waiting for the dust to settle.
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#4> A photo illustration created by AI depicting someone skeptical of using AI.
> Photo by Nate Edwards/BYU Photo
So is it a photograph or AI generated?
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#5> While some people might worry about an AI apocalypse,
Wait, so if you’re worried about an ai apocalypse, you’re not using it. What does that solve?
> Steffen and Wells found that most non-users are more concerned with issues like trusting the results, missing the human touch or feeling unsure if GenAI is ethical to use.
Are the ethical users avoiding LLMs entirely? Or only for certain use cases?
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#6I don’t use them, yet. Am open to it, but no longer trust most tech companies. Probably an open model in several years on a beefy yet affordable machine I’ve yet to purchase. Also am at the peak of my game, and automated templates, snippets, and stackoverflow lookup a decade+ ago. I prefer reading a discussion of tradeoffs to approaches before picking one. It may take up to ten more minutes up front but save hours la…
There are several companies with proper privacy terms offering available models as pay per use to a fair price.
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#7I don’t use them, yet. Am open to it, but no longer trust most tech companies. Probably an open model in several years on a beefy yet affordable machine I’ve yet to purchase. Also am at the peak of my game, and automated templates, snippets, and stackoverflow lookup a decade+ ago. I prefer reading a discussion of tradeoffs to approaches before picking one. It may take up to ten more minutes up front but save hours la…
Work kind of guilt-tripped me into giving it a shot and my experience with Claude was such a time-waster that I’ve kinda been ignoring it and continuing to do my own thing.
Maybe other people are better at prompting or designing VSCode integrations but what I’ve experienced so far has been a mess. Utterly nonsensical design decisions, it doesn’t seem to understand basic linear algebra or the LAPACK API. (I tried adding the Fortran or C source to its context to no avail.) I asked it to rewrite a well-documented scalar function using AVX intrinsics and. . . woof. No good.
Hopefully the field either improves dramatically in a couple years or goes back into hibernation for the next AI winter.
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#8> While some people might worry about an AI apocalypse, Wait, so if you’re worried about an ai apocalypse, you’re not using it. What does that solve? > Steffen and Wells found that most non-users are more concerned with issues like trusting the results, missing the human touch or feeling unsure if GenAI is ethical to use. Are the ethical users avoiding LLMs entirely? Or only for certain use cases?
> Wait, so if you’re worried about an ai apocalypse, you’re not using it. What does that solve?
It solves acting according to one's principles and against what one perceives as harmful? I don't understand the question.
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#9I don’t use them, yet. Am open to it, but no longer trust most tech companies. Probably an open model in several years on a beefy yet affordable machine I’ve yet to purchase. Also am at the peak of my game, and automated templates, snippets, and stackoverflow lookup a decade+ ago. I prefer reading a discussion of tradeoffs to approaches before picking one. It may take up to ten more minutes up front but save hours la…
Work kind of guilt-tripped me into giving it a shot and my experience with Claude was such a time-waster that I’ve kinda been ignoring it and continuing to do my own thing. Maybe other people are better at prompting or designing VSCode integrations but what I’ve experienced so far has been a mess. Utterly nonsensical design decisions, it doesn’t seem to understand basic linear algebra or the LAPACK API. (I tried addi…
Same. I gave up after 30 minutes of correcting it when it kept suggesting code to use that was completely invalid.
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#10Im pretty close to not using it, mainly because I rage trying to explain something akin to a 6 year old while its smearing shit on the walls.
True engineering requires discipline, anything short of this philosophy is brain rot and you will pay the price in the long term