In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
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Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#2This doesn't seem to be about improvement nor about algorithms. It's about bolting AI on top of everything (because that's the style at the time) for the sake of being able to tell that it has AI.
From marketing pov it kind of makes sense. If I think about it, if there are two otherwise equal toilet brushes, I will pick the one that has AI too.
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#3Yes, indeed. This push for "AI has to do everything" is dumb. It seems to be the new buzzword and koolaid that has to be attached to every context just because.
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#4Claiming that AI is not useful is absurd and oxymoronic. If you cant figure out how to use it, you are locked in a paradigm that is becoming obsolete.
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#5Claiming that AI is not useful is absurd and oxymoronic. If you cant figure out how to use it, you are locked in a paradigm that is becoming obsolete.
The post doesn't claim that AI is useless. It just makes the point that sometimes there are much simpler (faster, cheaper) solutions that are just as effective if not more so.
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#6Claiming that AI is not useful is absurd and oxymoronic. If you cant figure out how to use it, you are locked in a paradigm that is becoming obsolete.
The post doesn't claim that AI is useless. It just makes the point that sometimes there are much simpler (faster, cheaper) solutions that are just as effective if not more so.
Those are often the solutions that AI is particularly well-suited to employing.
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#7Claiming that AI is not useful is absurd and oxymoronic. If you cant figure out how to use it, you are locked in a paradigm that is becoming obsolete.
I honestly have no clue what people expect ai to "obsolete". The world doesn't work like that.
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The post doesn't claim that AI is useless. It just makes the point that sometimes there are much simpler (faster, cheaper) solutions that are just as effective if not more so.
Those are often the solutions that AI is particularly well-suited to employing.
Could you provide an example?
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#9This is about selling solutions vs solving problems.
There's an excellent quote about this common phenomenon from Lant Pritchett (Prof @ Harvard Kennedy School) that has stuck with me for years, and helped improve how I begin a working relationship with my clients:
"A lot of the time when we first interact with people and ask them to come up with problems that they want to solve they often name a solution because they have a preset idea of the solution and hence they never really have thought through to the problem to which this that was a solution"
Here is a great quick explanation of this from him and how he addresses it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--ewJatFeZU
Re: In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The post doesn't claim that AI is useless. It just makes the point that sometimes there are much simpler (faster, cheaper) solutions that are just as effective if not more so.
Those are often the solutions that AI is particularly well-suited to employing.
Sure these are often things AI is capable of doing. However, if using AI provides a worse product, building it takes longer and costs more, and the product is error prone, slower, and or more expensive to use then AI is simply a poor solution. The only argument has nothing to do with the product it’s about padding a resume etc.