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It will eventually, when people realize it's just a giant and complex statistical response machine. It's really just giving you the words and/or set of pixels back that are the usual response to the words you provided. If there was no training data, there would be no AI.
It's like a parrot, but more complex and requires nuclear power plants to generate enough power to keep it going.
A Parrot has actual intelligence
That's fair.
I apologize to the parrot community. Clearly parrots are better than what we currently call AI.
I have people on my team who use AI in their daily work, they describe it as like a "mirror" you can use to feed your ideas into and reshape or analyze in new ways. It doesn't have any reasoning or thinking capability outside of what you type into it.
I am really critical of generative AI being used as a substitute for actual work, that's where it tends to fail miserably. I cannot stand people who let AI do their writing or graphical projects for them, but I have no issue with people using it to help them complete a project with references, ideas and suggestions. Just don't let it do the work, because it is, by definition, an "averaging machine" so that everything it outputs is supremely... average.
I don't mind people using it for boiler plate stuff, and/or rough drafts to get a lot of the words typed out, so you can editorialize what's there.
When doing a lot of similar things, it can save a ton of time just having someone or something draw up a draft/starting point.
Any uses beyond this, are a non-starter for me when it comes to actual business use cases. The information that AI spits out in response to a query, is not, and should not be considered to be, complete in any way, shape, or form. It absolutely will need to be reviewed, edited, checked for accuracy and finalized by a human, before it is ready to be submitted for others to ingest. Zero AI content should be sent to anyone else until it has been reviewed and fully vetted by the person using AI to generate the content.
This has not been the goal to date. A lot of AI is trying to essentially eliminate entire segments of job markets, and bluntly, it's an insane mistake to think that, especially in its current form, that it could possibly do that, or even come close in any capacity.
It's at best a first-draft machine, but more likely it's a novelty that isn't worth the risk of using in production.
Using generative AI in it's current form for any kind of production-quality work is a massive mistake. Anyone can tell from miles away when your images or text have been generated, they always have a weird homogeneity that shaves off all the hard edges, both in writing and visuals. We all need to understand though, that it WILL take a new shape, that the progress is inevitable. The things we're annoyingly surrounded by right now are just the whispers of what the near future has in store.
I have been speaking out against the use of AI for "art" or writing for a while. I have screamed at users that they're in a bubble. I have shaken reality to singularity-bros and I've been called a boomer, a luddite and all the names in the book for trying to tell people they're being conned so that huge companies can milk them with slightly better and slightly better models for years and years.
But through this whole time, I have been following the industry and testing different models. We're so cooked. Our species cannot handle what's coming. It's a ways away still but it's going to totally upend our civilization and about the only thing that can stop it will be a complete societal collapse. Right now, I see either option as equally likely. I'm thinking a 10 - 15 year projection before things start getting really surreal/tragic.
Time will tell, if nothing else.
I think the tech has merit, but not nearly to the extent that companies are investing into it right now.
It's moving so fast that it's going to be hard to curb it when things start going wrong.
Here comes sky net? I guess?
I had it write a program to quickly make a Shopify csv to quickly expand my shop listings. I know how to program enough to fix and expand but not enough to sit around and want to bang these programs out.
I also have a photo script to add a bunch of things to thumbnails.