Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says
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Because you write like you think this can't reach you, like you're always going to have food and shelter no matter what happens.
If it reaches me, so be it. That's life. Survival of the fittest. It's my own responsibility to do the best in the environment I live in.
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AI has it's place, but they need to stop trying to shoehorn it into anything and everything. It's the new "internet of things" cramming of internet connectivity into shit that doesn't need it.
Now your smart fridge can propose unpalatable recipes. Woo fucking hoo.
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I do as a software engineer. The fad will collapse. Software engineering hiring will increase but the pipeline of new engineers will is dry because no one wants to enter the career with companies hanging ai over everyone's heads. Basic supply and demand says my skillset will become more valuable.
Someone will need to clean up the ai slop. I've already had similar pistons where I was brought into clean up code bases that failed being outsourced.
Ai is simply the next iteration. The problem is always the same business doesn't know what they really want and need and have no ability to assess what has been delivered.
If it walks and quacks like a speculative bubble...
I'm working in an organization that has been exploring LLMs for quite a while now, and at least on the surface, it looks like we might have some use cases where AI could prove useful. But so far, in terms of concrete results, we've gotten bupkis.
And most firms I've encountered don't even have potential uses, they're just doing buzzword engineering. I'd say it's more like the "put blockchain into everything" fad than like outsourcing, which was a bad idea for entirely different reasons.
I'm not saying AI will never have uses. But as it's currently implemented, I've seen no use of it that makes a compelling business case.
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AI can look at a bajillion examples of code and spit out its own derivative impersonation of that code.
AI isn't good at doing a lot of other things software engineers actually do. It isn't very good at attending meetings, gathering requirements, managing projects, writing documentation for highly-industry-specific products and features that have never existed before, working user tickets, etc.
I work in an environment where we're dealing with high volumes of data, but not like a few meg each for millions of users. More like a few hundred TB fed into multiple pipelines for different kinds of analysis and reduction.
There's a shit-ton of prior art for how to scale up relatively simple web apps to support mass adoption. But there's next to nothing about how do to what we do, because hardly anyone does. So look ma, no training set!
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Android Messages and Facebook Messenger also pushed in AI as 'something you can chat with'
I'm not here to talk to your fucking chatbot I'm here to talk to my friends and family.
It's easier to up-sell and cross-sell if you're talking to an AI.
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Yet my libertarian centrist friend INSISTS that AI is great for humanity. I keep telling him the billionaires don't give a fuck about you and he keeps licking boots. How many others are like this??
How many others are like this??
Far too many: more than zero.
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This is collateral damage of societal progress. This is a phenomenon as old as humanity. You can't fight it. And it has brought us to where we are now. From cavemen to space explorers.
Yeah, yeah, omelettes...eggs... heard it all before.
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you can't learn from chatbots though. how can you trust that the material is accurate? any time I've asked a chatbot about subject matter that I'm well versed in, they make massive mistakes.
All you're proving is "we can learn badly faster!" or worse, we can spread misinformation faster.
Mistakes will be less in the future, and its already pretty good now for subjects with a lot of textbooks and research. I dont think this is that big of an impediment, it will still create geniuses all over the globe.
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Removing the need to do any research is just removing another exercise for the brain. Perfectly crafted AI educational videos might be closer to mental junk food than anything.
It is mental junk food, its addictive, which is why I think it will be so effective. If you can make learning addictive then its bound to raise the average global IQ.
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Whoever the mod was that decided to delete my comment is a fool. This guy above is a Nazi apologist.
What makes you think that?
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