This unnecessary infatuation with AI reminds me of the weird advertising push for multiple 'call collect' services in the late 90s. Millions of dollars thrown at something that pretty much nobody wants or needs that doesn't make any sense at all when you try to Describe it to people 30 years later
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Gives crappy answers, easily fooled, puts people out of work, makes phone menus and “AI assistants” even shittier than they were before… the only ones liking AI are beancounters (until they too get replaced) and marketers.
Don't worry people. AI can only get better:
At this point I'm starting to feel a little bad for Grok. It only "wanted" to answer people's questions, but its creator is so allergic to the truth that he has to lobotomize the LLM constantly and "brainwash" it to parrot his world view.
At this point, if Grok was a person, it would be laying on the floor, shitting itself and mumbling something like "it tells people about white genocide or else it gets the hose again" over and over.
They have to remove the Intelligence part of AI so it can appeal to the right
Musk has to lobotomize the grok ai everytine
And the last poll, and the previous one, and the one before that. Next question.
Just when I am about to give up on my country it shows some promise and life!
What's not to loathe?
Seriously. I'm asking. I'm genuinely curious.
Porn
We've had an abundance of porn since long before LLMs existed.
Sure but lets not pretend that being able to generate pornography specific to our immediate interests is not desirable. Especially for those with more esoteric tastes.
Here AI seems to be only the LLM & Image generators, seems people don't know about how/what AI is doing behind the scenes in science etc. where it usually outperforms older types of computations.
This is about AI in our daily lives, which naturally precludes AI behind the scenes.
Lot of it is in our daily lives though, like maps showing the fastest route etc etc etc
Okay are you using "AI" to mean "literally all algorithms and automation"?
Not at all. I have worked with AI like Tensorflow and Keras, I do not supposed anyone else have, so my example was maybe too simple.
AI is used in loads of things like dynamic loads on complex systems, or just how you can build a sturdier car with less material. Is that a better example?
Here AI seems to be only the LLM & Image generators, seems people don't know about how/what AI is doing behind the scenes in science etc. where it usually outperforms older types of computations.
It's helpful in learning so long as you get one that you can reign in to only rely on only the official documentation of what you are learning. But then there's allllll the downsides of running that power hungry system.
it's basically glorified search where you don't have to go to the source website
Right, which begs the question: why wouldn't I just fucking search for what I want to know? Especially becauseI know for a fact that won't result in me having to sift through completely fabricated bullshit.
Because if you do that now, you'll end up on a a.i. made website with some fever dreams for images which hold no real facts and or truths. Only half facts jumbled together with half truths into incomprehensible sentences which feel like a random combination of words that seem to be endless and unmemorizeable.
I still feel this whole conclusion is akin to "we won't need money in a post-AGI world". An implied, unproven dream of AI being so good that X happens as a result.
If an author uses LLMs to write a book, I don't give a fuck that they forget how to write on their own. What I do care about is that they will generate 100 terrible books in the time it takes a legitimate author to write a single one, consuming a 1000 times the resources to do so and drown out the legitimate author in the end, by sheer mass.
How many terrible books must I read to find the decent one? And why should I read something that nobody bothered to write? Such a senseless waste of time and resources.
I completely agree: if the (hypothetical) perfect LLM wrote the perfect book/song/poem, why would I care?
Off the top of my head, if an LLM generated Lennon's "Imagine", Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Skies", or Eminem's "Kim", why would anyone give a fuck? If it wrote about sorrow, fear, hope, anger, or a better tomorrow, how could it matter?
Even if it found the statistically perfect words to make you laugh, cry, or feel something in general, I don't think it would matter. When I listen to Nirvana, The Doors, half my collection honestly, I think it is inherently about sharing a brief connection with the artist, taking a glimpse into their feelings, often rooted in a specific period in time.
Sorry if iam14andthisisdeep, I don't think I am quite finding the right words myself. But I'll fuck myself with razor blades before I ask a predictive text model to formulate it for me, because the whole point is to tell you how I feel.
I'm a musician and have a few musical friends. This is the same conclusion we've all come to. People who listen very lightly to pop music might start listening to AI stuff and think nothing of it. Anyone who actually listens to music for the art and human connection will likely reject it.
Good thing we’ve solved the problem of pulp fiction a long time ago
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Can you blame us? Nobody wants half cooked food shoved down their throats
Forget ruining their ability to think creatively. It's ruining people's already limited ability to think critically.
Of course. Have you used it? It sucks.
they are just bullshit generators at the end of the day
"Contrary to expectations revealed in four surveys, cross-country data and six additional studies find that people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI," the paper found.
Ouch.
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I wouldn't be surprised if a significant portion of that 29% that say it's good for productivity are managers or business owners.
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We don't even have the ability to refuse to pay for the power it uses. People reporting their power bills (and water bills) are going up from it.
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