I’ve found that AI has done literally nothing to improve my life in any way and has really just caused endless frustrations. From the enshitification of journalism to ruining pretty much all tech support and customer service, what is the point of this shit?
I work on the Salesforce platform and now I have their dumbass account managers harassing my team to buy into their stupid AI customer service agents. Really, the only AI highlight that I have seen is the guy that made the tool to spam job applications to combat worthless AI job recruiters and HR tools.
You know those people who have no creative skills or drive, but want to be thought of as a creative?
You know those people who have this really neat idea for an app, but they don’t plan on making it themself because they’re “just an ideas guy”?
You know those people who will offer to pay in exposure? I mean, do you really need to be paid just to draw some pictures anyway?
You know those guys who send you a picture they got from google images and claim this to be a girl they know?
That’s the vast majority of the AI audience. I could probably sum that up with the word “parasite”, but I wanted to be thorough.
To me AI is useless. Its not intelligent, its just a blender that blends up tons of results into one hot steaming mug of “knowledge”. If you toss a nugget of shit into a smoothie while it’s being blended, it’s gonna taste like shit. Considering the amount of misinformation on the internet, everything AI spits out is shit.
It is purely derivative, devoid of any true originality with vague facade of intelligence in an attempt to bypass existing copyright law.
That thought process would say patent law was incorrect though right? If you break something down to parts and say, well all those parts exist on their own, you just reordered them so you never created anything new. A fun case people refer to was against Ford I believe, when they tried to steal the intermittent windshield wiper idea from someone by claiming that resistors already existed, it was just placed elsewhere, so he couldn’t claim it as a new invention. Ford lost and had to pay to use the idea.
I see it as the same premise. All programming and language breaks down to words that already exist, so either rearranging them and using them in a new manner is a new work, or none of it is. Thereby saying all books, music, and code wouldn’t be able to have copyrights or patents. Which I believe that would cause a bit of chaos.
The applications of what you call ai are absolutely limitless. But to be clear what you’re calling “AI” isn’t AI in terms of what you might want it to be what you’re referring to are large language models or LLM’s. Which aren’t ai, not yet.
It’s short sighted statements like this that really get my blood boiling.
If humanity actually achieves artificial intelligence it’ll be the equivalent of the printing press or agriculture. It’ll be like inventing the superconductor or micro transistors all over again. Our world will completely change for the better.
If your interactions with these llms have been negative, I can only assume that you have a strong bias against this type of technology and have simply not used it in a way that’s applicable for you.
I personally use llms pretty much daily in my life and they have been nothing but an excellent tool.
How could you possibly know that achieving AI will change the world for the better? Change, I believe, but even people running the AI companies talk about how hard alignment is. There’s a chance it has a net positive effect on the world, but I guarantee you there is also a non-zero chance it has a net negative effect. If you have some way of predicting the future, maybe you should get into investing.
There’s no reason to assume that AI will be malevolent.
I also said it would be equivalent to other important events throughout human history.
For example, I believe the discovery of agriculture is one of the most detrimental things ever that happened to humanity. Doesn’t make it any less riveting.
If you do not understand or don’t want to understand the implications of a fully realized artificial intelligence then you are simply willfully ignorant or want to be intentionally contrary.
Either way when our ai overlords take over the earth your name won’t be in the protected scrolls. May God have mercy on your soul.
Lol. I think it’s very dangerous to assume something this revolutionary has a 0% chance of being a net negative. I’m not saying AI can’t be good, but I’m saying it never hurts to have some skepticism. Also, remember, history doesn’t repeat, it echoes.
I honestly don’t understand why suggesting there is a >0% chance things could go wrong would make you so angry. Maybe you should ask ChatGPT to coach you on handling opinions that don’t match your own.
That’s a bit loaded question. By AI I assume you’re refering to GenAI/LLMs rather than AI broadly.
- I use it to correct my spelling on longer posts and I find that it improves the clarity and helps my point come across better.
- I use Dall-E to create pictures I never could have before, because despite my interest in drawing, I just never bothered to learn it myself. GenAI enables me to skip the learning and go straight to creating.
- I like that it can simulate famous people and allows me to ask ‘them’ questions that I never could in real life. For example, yesterday I spent a good while chatting with ‘Sam Harris’ about the morality of lying and the edge cases where it might be justified. I find discussions like this genuinely enjoyable and insightful.
- I also like using the voice mode where I can just talk with it. As a non-native english speaker, I find it to be good practise to help me improve my
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ChatGPT is incredibly good at helping you with random programming questions, or just dumping a full ass error text and it telling you exactly what’s wrong.
This afternoon I used ChatGPT to figure out what the error preventing me from updating my ESXi server. I just copy pasted the entire error text which was one entire terminal windows worth of shit, and it knew that there was an issue accessing the zip. It wasn’t smart enough to figure out “hey dumbass give it a full file path not relative” but eventually I got there. Earlier this morning I used it to write a cross apply instead of using multiple sub select statements. It forgot to update the order by, but that was a simple fix. I use it for all sorts of other things we do at work too. ChatGPT won’t replace any programmers, but it will help them be more productive.
Agree to disagree. If you trust this, you’re a fool. Trust me, I’ve tried for hours asking it about a myriad of tech issues, and it just constantly fucking lies.
It can help you, but NEVER trust it. Never. Google everything it tells you if it’s important.
A lot of papers are showing that the code written by people using ChatGPT have more vulnerabilities and use more obsoleted libraries. Using ChatGPT actively makes you a worse programmer, according to that logic.
