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Everybody's Weirded Out by AI–Except the People Who Foist It on Us

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Re: Everybody's Weirded Out by AI–Except the People Who Foist It on Us

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Post by socalgal2 »

reticulates wrote: post #7
sergiomattei wrote: post #2

> But would it have improved my comprehension? The research says no. I don’t know, I find myself doing things I would’ve never done before AI. I find myself doing more projects outside of work. I discover new problem domains and are less afraid of tackling the unknown. I code in languages I don’t know and start learning how they work. I can get anything explained to me, at any time, in a somewhat coherent manner, by…

> it’s definitely a revolution in access to information Did you mean: Google?

Google was the previous revolution. AI is the next. I get info from LLMs way better than I generally got from Google, at least for some large subset of things I used to try to get from Google.

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Post by ianm218 »

TRiG_Ireland wrote: post #8
Legend2440 wrote: post #5

Everyone? Speak for yourself. I'm not weirded out by it.

Really? Interacting with an LLM feels like stepping on a slug. It's just gross.

Do you mean like inadvertently interacting with an LLM like when you call a customer service line and you get AI?

I find it hard to imagine having a chatbot fix your broken SQL query or summarize some event be experienced as gross.

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Post by socalgal2 »

pstuart wrote: post #11

That was not a very insightful article. It's super easy, and in most cases, correct to hate on AI. But that ignores a couple key facts: * It's not going to go away and will only get more sophisticated whether we like it or not. * It has legitimate super powers that can enable people do things that would either be impossible or insanely expensive. I've been fascinated by tech my whole life and have watched various wav…

> It's super easy, and in most cases, incorrect to hate on AI.

There, fixed that for you.

I'm not saying the haters have zero point, but I find AI far more useful than not. I think so do most people. If I walk into any coffee shop and look over the at the screens of the people next to me, I see all asking AI questions and getting something positive from it. So I don't think "most cases" is correct.

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Post by arjie »

It's funny how this works. When Apple came out with the iPad Reddit absolutely hated it. No one would want it. It's a crappy product. Who even needs 4 iPhones glued together and so on and so forth. This all reads like that. It's just completely divorced from reality.

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Post by AngryData »

fzeroracer wrote: post #15
kenforthewin wrote: post #10

> A study by MIT found that students who use AI to write show far less brain activity than those who used classic Google searching (with AI off) or those who used neither. Other studies find that students who use AI retain far less of the information that ends up in their writing, possibly as a result of “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender.” I'm unconvinced that AI will make us all dumber. In the public p…

> What kinds of students gravitate towards cheating tools to complete their coursework? Typically speaking, the ones that run companies. > On the other hand, the opportunity for AI to act as a personal tutor, meeting you at your own skill and knowledge level, is limitless. To be especially contrarian here, people said the exact same thing about the internet. That it would let you connect with anyone and truly evolve…

Im not sure if the internet made anyone dumber. It is just early on the average idiot self selected out of internet usage and there wasn't as much corporate or advertising money it to be worth manipulating.

AI im not sure of because it generates so much slop and anyone not already deep into a topic or field are unlikely to be able to recognize what parts are useful and what parts are common misconceptions or hallucinations.

Search engines are certainly worse tho, the first 20 hits on certain topics these days are AI articles that lack the needed details in favor of verbose generalizations or have questionable figures that other slop makes difficult to verify.

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Post by [deleted] »

pstuart wrote: post #11

That was not a very insightful article. It's super easy, and in most cases, correct to hate on AI. But that ignores a couple key facts: * It's not going to go away and will only get more sophisticated whether we like it or not. * It has legitimate super powers that can enable people do things that would either be impossible or insanely expensive. I've been fascinated by tech my whole life and have watched various wav…

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Post by runarberg »

antonvs wrote: post #16
TRiG_Ireland wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? Interacting with an LLM feels like stepping on a slug. It's just gross.

It’s one of the most amazing technological achievements of the 21st century to date, if not the most amazing by far. But it’s still a machine executing a program. Your emotional reaction to it might be because you’re seeing it as something more than that.

mRNA vaccines takes the first place for sure, and by a wide margin. But also advancements in lithium ion batteries and solar cell technology. We also finally generated electricity with fusion power this century, traveled to Pluto and set up the James Webb Space telescope [albeit the latter two are engineering achievements].

I think using an absurd amount of power to train a neural network on stolen data which is then used to perform mundane tasks and performs significantly worse then if done manually. If anything LLMs is one of the least impressive, yet most annoying technological achievement this century.

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Post by AngryData »

arjie wrote: post #25

It's funny how this works. When Apple came out with the iPad Reddit absolutely hated it. No one would want it. It's a crappy product. Who even needs 4 iPhones glued together and so on and so forth. This all reads like that. It's just completely divorced from reality.

But I don't know anybody that uses iPads? To me it clearly out sold the market it is actually useful for.
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