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Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Re: Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in

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Post by Larrikin »

pixl97 wrote: post #294
Larrikin wrote: post #264

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A plow enables you to till land you couldn't before with your bare hands. The phone let's you talk to someone you couldn't before when shouting can't. ChatGPT let's you... Please complete the sentence without an analogy

>A plow enables you to till land you couldn't before with your bare hands. It does not. You could still till the land with hand tools. You just get a lot more done. ChatGPT let's me program in languages I was not efficient in before. Anyway, I'm done with your technology purity contest, it has about zero basis in reality.

Why are you so mad? You're the only one in these comments dismissing arguments because you don't like them. Are you invested?

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Post by shepherdjerred »

Larrikin wrote: post #77
shepherdjerred wrote: post #57

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Are you really implying that generative AI doesn't enable things that were not previously possible?

It's actually a fair question. There are software projects I wouldn't have taken on without an LLM. Not because I couldn't make it. But because of the time needed to create it. I could have taken the time to do the math to figure out what the rewards structure is for my Wawa points and compare it to my car's fuel tank to discover I should strictly buy sandwiches and never gas. People have been making nude celebrity p…

Would it be fair to say a car or plane aren’t significant then, given we could always traverse by horse or boat?

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Post by pixl97 »

Larrikin wrote: post #301
pixl97 wrote: post #294

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>A plow enables you to till land you couldn't before with your bare hands. It does not. You could still till the land with hand tools. You just get a lot more done. ChatGPT let's me program in languages I was not efficient in before. Anyway, I'm done with your technology purity contest, it has about zero basis in reality.

Why are you so mad? You're the only one in these comments dismissing arguments because you don't like them. Are you invested?

No. I'm just stating that a huge portion of these comments have their own emotional investment and are confusing OUGHT/IS. On top of that their arguments aren't particularly sound, and if they were applied to any other technologies that we worship here in the church of HN would seem like an advanced form of hypocrisy.

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Post by lostmsu »

mrnaught wrote: post #136
seizethecheese wrote: post #5

> There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society The article is certainly interesting as yet another indicator of the backlash against AI, but I must say, “exists to scam the elderly” is totally absurd. I get that this is satire, but satire has to have some basis in…

>> enabled by the internet, does the internet exist for this purpose? Of course not. I think point article was trying to make: LLMs and new genAI tools helped the scammers scale their operations.

So did the Internet

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Post by mayhemducks »

MobiusHorizons wrote: post #181
donkey_brains wrote: post #154

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Today a manager at my work asked all his teams including mine “please write up a report on how many engineers from your teams we could replace with AI”. Surprisingly, the answer he got was “none, because that’s not how AI works”. Guess we’ll see if that registers…

I would love to have responded something like “only one: yours” But in all seriousness, ai does a pretty good job at impersonating VPs. It’s confidently wrong and full of hope for the future.

You're absolutely right!

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Post by collingreen »

mogsor wrote: post #282
sunaookami wrote: post #277

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It's true, making these things easier and faster and more accessible really doesn't matter

That's a bonkers take.

Am I misunderstanding you or are you somehow saying anything done in the past is fine to do more of?

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Post by johnnyanmac »

seizethecheese wrote: post #5

> There’s an extremely hurtful narrative going around that my product, a revolutionary new technology that exists to scam the elderly and make you distrust anything you see online, is harmful to society The article is certainly interesting as yet another indicator of the backlash against AI, but I must say, “exists to scam the elderly” is totally absurd. I get that this is satire, but satire has to have some basis in…

>I get that this is satire, but satire has to have some basis in truth.

The Trump administration is using AI generated imagery to advance his narrative, and it seems like it's a thing that mostly the elderly would fall for. So yes, there is some truth to it.

In general, the elderly will always be more vulnerable to technological exploitation.

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Post by myhf »

jacquesm wrote: post #7
GolfPopper wrote: post #4

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You forgot... "by stealing from artists and writers at scale".

You forgot about 'open source contributors' and 'musicians'.

and don't forget "subtle backdoors disguised as regular example code"

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Post by prewett »

jacquesm wrote: post #108
echelon wrote: post #53

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As a rule real creativity blossoms under constraints, not under abundance.

But new media also lets creativity blossom. The printing press eventually enabled novels through cost reduction. Prussian blue pigment is a large part of ukyio-e's attraction; it got used a lot because it was new and was a better blue. The Gothic arch's improved strength compared to the circular arch enabled cathedrals with huge windows. Concrete enabled all sorts of fluid architecture; Soviet bus stations, for instance [1].

[1] https://www.russiabeyond.com/arts/327147-10-best-soviet-bus-...

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Post by vrighter »

mogsor wrote: post #283
pixl97 wrote: post #112

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Here's the thing with AI, especially as it becomes more AGI like, it will encompass all human behaviors. This will lead to the bad behaviors becoming especially noticeable since bad actors quickly realized this is a force multiplication factor for them. This is something everyone needs to think about when discussing AI safety. Even ANI applications carry a lot of potential societal risks and they may not be immediate…

AI doesn't encompass any "human behaviours", the humans controlling it do. Grok doesn't generate nude pictures of women because it wants to, it does it because people tell it to and it has (or had) no instructions to the contrary

If it can generate porn, it can do so because it was explicitly trained on porn. Therefore the system was designed to generate porn. It can't just materialize a naked body without having seen millions of them. they do not work that way.
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