I’ve said this a few times in a different way and I always get downvoted. The fact is that the people who will use the LLMs to think for them, were not gonna think a lot in the first place.

Not when companies force them on you as well.

My current company forces me to use it and measures how many prompts I’m making as “productivity”.

It’s annoying that every middle manager is trying to become the hero of their company by pushing it inappropriately into every single field at the expense of productivity and jobs, while simultaneously the largest most powerful companies are slinging their SaaS solutions built on stolen data which are destroying communities of both the physical and hobby varieties and consuming more natural resources than all the fucking crypto scams of the last like 10 years

But yeah it’s neat I guess

My gf's employer was going into administration last month. AI was surprisingly competent in determining where to seek advice and had a decent understanding of what to expect and how to approach things such as not getting paid on time (which happened last week).

Of course, we double and triple checked any information given to us with the relevant bodies, but it provided a little relief to go into something so chilling not being completely clueless.

AI has its use, but you have to know how to extract the information you need.

It's stupid the way people are using it for therapy. Like, by all means ask it if it knows any organisations which can help you, then look those up, but don't tell it a load of personal information about your relationship, because the reply will be something akin to the advice you see on r/relationships (which is probably where it scraped its data from) 😅

Those numbers are baseless exaggerations. There are plenty of tasks which they solve perfectly, today. It's just that a bunch of dicks operate them, and the cost of operating them are way too high.

Also:

• environmental impact of AI
• unethical acquisition of training data
• dichotomy of how conservative politics treat AI company and private copyright law
• "undress AI" and deepfakes

It's not that they're not useful, that's just nonsense.

That’s a bit too dismissive. I’ve had a lot of interesting chats with LLMs that led me to find out what I didn’t understand about something. As an example I’m reading a book explaining some practices of Structured Concurrency in Swift and many times I asked ChatGPT is the author is correct about some phrasing that seemed wrong to me. And ChatGPT was able to explain why that was right in that context.

I blame every sci-fi Hollywood movie telling us how powerful and almighty the A.I is. How it's going to be the magic pill that entirely destroys or saves humanity by itself.

Now we have an entire generation believing this crap.

Some of the biggest forces in the market are extraordinarily stupid people trying to ride every buzzword that comes along.

I think the biggest forces sell the fantasy to smaller forces. This way they can capitalize on the smaller forces believing the hype.

"Harvard scientist Rachel Greene"

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