This is a fascinating case study in the democracy vs technocrat debate, where the educated, well-paid consultant class is too far up their own ideological asshole to recognize that their GenAI chatbot doesn't work as advertised, and that lack of sanity is poisoning the well and killing discussions over how to use the power of machine learning well. But rather than back off the chatbot, even just to "let it cook" (read: let Saltman and friends continue to play with it in arenas that don't have geopolitically relevant stakes) they're doubling down to make this a pure messaging issue which I expect is only going to make the problem worse. Like, people aren't unaware of GenAI at this point, and education on prompting it right is just a distraction from the fundamental problem.
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
they're doing "yes/maybe later" on the public with this
Aside from AI... who the fuck trusts The Tony Blair "Institute"?
As far as I can tell, Keir Starmer. Which goes some way to explaining how quickly he's run Labour into the ground.
EDIT: And running the UK straight into the ground as well, can't believe I forgot to mention that
In my experience, people who support AI overwhelmingly tend to be stupid and malicious in equal measure, so seeing Tony "Bomb The Browns" Blair support it does not shock me.
Ya know what might fix this whole AI problem? ID cards.
--A guy with TBI, probably
Yeah, sharing an acronym with Traumatic Brain Injury was probably a prophetic coincidence rather than unfortunate one.
The UK public being skeptical about AI must be good news for Big Yud.