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[-] eee@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

It CAN BE amazing in certain situations. Ceo tomfoolery is what's making generative Ai become a joke to the average user.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes. It's not wrong 100% of the time, otherwise you could make a fortune by asking it for investment advice and then doing the opposite.

What happened is like the current robot craze: they made the technology resemble humans, which drives attention and money. Specialized "robots" can indeed perform tedious tasks (CNC, pick-and-place machines) or work safely with heavier objects (construction equipment). Similarly, we can use AI to identify data forgery or fold proteins. If we try to make either human-like, they will appear to do a wide variety of tasks (which drives sales & investment) but not be great at any of them. You wouldn't buy a humanoid robot just to reuse your existing shovel if excavators are cheaper. (Yes, I don't think a humanoid robot with digging capabilities will ever be cheaper than a standard excavator).

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago

It's actually really frustrating that LLMs have gotten all the funding when we're finally at the point where we can build reasonably priced purpose-built AI and instead the CEOs want to push trashbag LLMs on everything

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago

Well, a conversational AI with sub-human abilities still has some uses. Notably scamming people en masse so human email scammers will be put out of their jobs /s

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