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One little thing AI can't do is probably the reason why I also use AI with caution. I use it for all the bullshit emails and communication I have to keep doing just to stay employed. But there's this one little trick it can't do. Sure it can summarize a resume or a book or give me the equation to calculated the size of Pythagora'ss triangular dick. But the one little thing it really can't do is thinking. AI can't think and come up with original content. It can only mimic and regurgitate old ideas and thoughts, not new ones.
Many people can't come up wit new ideas either 😜
Very true if not real reality at its finest.
I may not have a lot of respect for some of my co-workers, and frankly a lump of lard would be an improvement, bit even the most useless human can out think an AI when it comes to anything slightly out of the box.
My nephew got in a bit of trouble at school a while ago because he answered a question "write a sentence containing the word 'why"." With "Why?" You can ask an AI dozen times the same thing and it will always just do the obvious thing, it'll never be original. He's six and he can outthink an AI.
You took my joke too literally
You can ask it to synthesis information. More specially you can ask it to compare the data and ask to give examples of other things that share the same attributes as the other 2. Also, if I’m painting I sometimes ask about color, but I just got a color wheel.
One guy is like "Friday is forced AI 'training' day" (as if one must 'train' to write prompts. Using natural language rather than a unique language or syntax and trusting the computer to make a comprehensible and accurate output is the whole point), and then he has the gall to claim "turns out people hate learning!"
Writing prompts is definitely a thing users must learn to do properly, to get the right results.
But anyways, any company that fires people in favor of AI is only digging their own grave anyways. I personally believe AI (of which LLM is only a small part) can definitely serve as an automation tool that can increase output. Great companies will use this tech to give their employees more time to work on things that are meaningful to the company, that the AI cannot do. For instance, a company could free up some time of highly skilled engineers to help a couple hours a week on the most complicated service desk issues to increase customer satisfaction. Or the LLM can create more time for sales to have meetings with customers, instead of doing admin they already hate, etc... Use it to grow, not to shrink.
Besides, if your company can be completely run by AI anyways, then congratulations, you just reached the end goal of open sourcing your company. Because why the heck won't anyone be able to replicate that quickly?
Besides, if your company can be completely run by AI anyways, then congratulations, you just reached the end goal of open sourcing your company. Because why the heck won't anyone be able to replicate that quickly?
Yeah that's the thing these tech bros never seem to understand. It's obviously not going to work because if it did work it would have already been done by somebody else, it's called the Law Of Mediocrity. It's simply requires the base assumption that you are not the smartest person in the universe, which of course is where it all falls down, because they always assume they are.
"It enabled us to shit out products in 4 days."
Glad they incorporated such thorough testing in their process.