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I guess I kinda get why people hate AI

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Re: I guess I kinda get why people hate AI

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Post by mjr00 »

> Microsoft’s AI CEO is saying AI is going to take everybody’s job. And Sam Altman is saying that AI will wipe out entire categories of jobs. ANd Matt Shumer is saying that AI is currently like Covid in January 2020—as in, “kind of under the radar, but about to kill millions of people”.

> I legitimately feel like I am going insane when I hear AI technologists talk about the technology. They’re supposed to market it. But they’re instead saying that it is going to leave me a poor, jobless wretch, a member of the “permanent underclass,” as the meme on Twitter goes.

They are marketing it. The target customer isn't the user paying $20 for ChatGPT Pro, though; the customers are investors and CEOs, and their marketing is "AI is so powerful and destructive that if you don't invest in AI, you will be left behind." FOMO at its finest.

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Post by dgxyz »

I hate LLMs because you can solve any problem that LLMs can solve in a much better way but people are too stupid, cheap or lazy to put in the effort to do so and share it with everyone.

That and the whitewashing it allows on layoffs from failing or poorly planned businesses.

Human issues as always.

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Post by bananaflag »

> Being able to easily interact with banks, without waiting in a line that’s too long for the dum-dum you get at the end to be a real consolation, made people use banks more.

Actually, in my city, not the ATMs, but the apps which made it possible to do almost everything on the phone significantly reduced the number of banks in the last few years. I have to go very rarely to the bank, but, when I have to do, I see that another close one has closed and I have to go somewhere even farther.

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Post by throwjjj »

dgxyz wrote: post #4

I hate LLMs because you can solve any problem that LLMs can solve in a much better way but people are too stupid, cheap or lazy to put in the effort to do so and share it with everyone. That and the whitewashing it allows on layoffs from failing or poorly planned businesses. Human issues as always.

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Post by v3xro »

> If I can somehow hate a machine that has basically stopped me from having to write boring boilerplate code, of course others are going to hate it!

Poor author, never tried expressive high-level languages with metaprogramming facilities that do not result in boring and repetitive boilerplate.

Re: I guess I kinda get why people hate AI

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Post by nativeit »

The AI executives are marketing it—it’s just none of us are the target demographic. They are marketing it to executives and financiers, the people who construct the machinations to keep their industry churning, and those who begrudge the necessity of labor in all its forms.
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