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Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI (www.theonion.com)

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[+] [email protected] -41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (33 children)

Salty writer fears being made obsolete by beep boop. Insults every AI enthusiast as well successful engineers and scientists.

i hate how popular it's become to hate on AI amongst people who know little to nothing about it.

Id forgive it if it were clever or funny, but this is really just obviously salty ad hominem strawmanning by someone who doesn't understand or appreciate the technology

Guess what fam, we are in the copilot tool phase. You can learn how to use these new tools AND learn how to be creative. Maybe then you could ask it to critique the humour in your satire article. Perhaps it would be more clever than "people who like this thing I don't like are dumb, and can't be creative or better than me In any way, because I'm cooler than AI will ever be!!! You nerds are stooooopid!!"

Because that's how it read.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

As an IT Professional i hate AI, because many People favor AI in Situations where statistical Algorithms are already good.

it has huge energy needs to train a model on thousands on input data, compared to simply having a concise statistical algorithm who does the thing you want to do. Think Spam filtering (usually an statistical Algorithm) vs Captcha (in Google's case AI)
It is much harder to debug and fixup after it has gone wrong. structrual Bias in the input data (think sexism, racism) is hard to remove on a big scale. Algorithms are easy to change.
As Software Developer, i favor mimimalist but useful technology. Very few things AI can do (which Algorithms can't) are actually helpful to society.
I think of Software Development as an Art of Craftmanship - AI is far away from that, it is like searching for needles in a hay stack in terms of finding solutions. And when you found a solution, you don't know why it works, you can't adapt it to other Problems easily.

I agree that AI can be helpful and inspiring for new Algorithms but in many cases AI is used to replace Algorithms, wasting huge energy resources in the process - instead of just improving said Algorithms.

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