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I’ll probably regret commenting.
I’m not an AI fan; current iterations seem like investments looking for problems to solve.
That said, « big loom » replacing hand-weaving or « big washing machine » replacing laundry on a rock in a river certainly eroded skills that became less relavent. I don’t know that it disqualifies them from being devices that can facilitate or do work.
Yes, among all the valid criticism of ai, this doesn't feel like it. More like "let's find a definition for tool that excludes AI" (and not even bother checking if it applies to other tools as well)
I got the same impression reading this. The current business around LLMs is terrible, truly abhorrent, but the technology has its uses.
Can't disagree. All of "AI" and its supposed qualities can pretty much be chalked up to the suspension of disbelief in the techbros' sales pitch. Because it can't really do any of the things it's hyped to, unless you're willing to drastically lower your expectations of the result.
I keep comparing "AI" to Magic Eightballs and Tamagotchis — toys, not tools. And I guess that's the allure that draws users to the dysfunctional algorithmic versions in the first place. That and the fairly natural language they use.
And then the quick slide begins into having the bullshit machine plan your vacation. Sure, you ended up out in the sticks with the whole family, none of the sights you were promised actually existed, nor did the B&B you thought you booked ...but it was an experience, right? And then you let it do more important stuff.
But "AI" is neither a tool nor a toy. It's a confounding nothing machine with an addictive interface. As one of the "AI" critical blogs say in its tagline, "it can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong". So keep up prompting until it gets a response more than 50% right.
In that sense it is more related to slot machines than to any tool out there. It works on our hope against hope and probability that if we chuck enough pennies at the machine we will get a payday. But the house always wins.
Tools make some work easier and or more efficient. Before prompts, you had tok google the exact words to google to find technical descriptions for what you wanted to read about. Now you just write "gimme explanation of home solar cells economics" and you get what required a few google prompts before.
Tool. Just like all the reflexively bubbly anti people here.
Anti car, anti ai, anti capitalism... Watching all the bubbles radicalizing themselves here is somewhat eye opening.
You keep confusing valid criticism with mob intelligence. Please start thinking critically instead of eating anything starting with "anti" with a big spoon. Valid criticism is a value add to a discussion and politics. What you do here is hiding from reality behind closed doors jerking each other off how the rest of the world doesn't know about reality while they move forward away from horses and towards cars.... If you like it or not.