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It's not just every tech company, it's every company. And it's terrifying - it's like giving people who don't know how to ride a bike a 1000hp motorcycle! The industry does not have guardrails in place and the public consciousness "chatGPT can do it" without any thought to checking the output is horrifying.
None of it is even AI, Predicting desired text output isn't intelligence
At this point i just interpret AI to be "we have lots of select statements and inner joins "
AI is whatever machines can't do yet.
Playing chess was the sign of AI, until a computer best Kasparov, then it suddenly wasn't AI anymore. Then it was Go, it was classifying images, it was having a conversation, but whenever each of these was achieved, it stopped being AI and became "machine learning" or "model".
Machine learning is still AI. Specifically, it's a subset of AI.
You hold artificial intelligence to the standards of general artificial intelligence, which doesn't even exist yet. Even dumb decision trees are considered an AI. You have to lower your expectations. Calling the best AIs we have dumb is unhelpful at best.
We never called if statements AI until the last year or so. It's all marketing buzz words. It has to be more than just "it makes a decision" to be AI, or else rivers would be AI because they "make a decision" on which path to take to the ocean based on which dirt is in the way.
Google Bard, everyone.
It's sad to see it spit out text from the training set without the actual knowledge of date and time. Like it would be more awesome if it could call time.Now(), but it 'll be a different story.
There's even rumours that the next version of Windows is going to inject a bunch of AI buzzword stuff into the operating system. Like, how is that going to make the user experience any more intuitive? Sounds like you're just going to have to fight an overconfident ChatGPT wannabe that thinks it knows what you want to do better than you do, every time you try opening a program or saving a document.
This is what pisses me off about the whole endeavour. We can't even get a fucking search algo right any more, why the fuck do i want a machine blithely failing to do what it's told as it stumbles off a cliff.
You didn’t hear? AI can read your mind and create the stuff you desire from all the data they collected on you. Yeah, it might be racist but it’s 100% shit.
This is refreshing to see. I thought I was the only one who felt this way.
It's all so stupid. The entire stock market basically took off because Nvidia CEO mentioned AI like 50 times and everyone now thinks it's worth 200 times it's yearly profit.
We don't even have AI, we have language models that dig through text and create answers from that.
That's a massive oversimplification. We do have AI. We don't have AGI.
Yeah I guess. I just figured AI would be capable of doing more than feeding already known data back to us. When I was growing up, I was hoping AI would be able to make new conclusions and be wiser than humans.
But maybe we are calling that AGI now.
That would be awesome, but it does already solve problems and give us information we don't have. It is able to extrapolate, which makes it wonderful for reporting type duties, analysis of data, etc.. It's also pretty good at coding. You'll hear a lot of people say it's not, but I think that comes down to their ability to instruct it properly. Since I started using ChatGPT at work my productivity has skyrocketed. I don't have to spend a bunch of time writing the basics of the programs I'm creating, I can outline it with ChatGPT and then edit it for my specific use. I also use it to audit my tone for progressional communication. I have a really bad tendency to sound overly stern with my written communication. For texts and such I fix that with Emojis, but I can't do that at work, so I pass my writing through ChatGPT and ask it to change the tone for me. It does a great job. ChatGPT is progressing at speeds beyond our wildest expectations, so you'll definitely see the kind of functionality you're talking about within your lifetime, probably within the next ten years.
I'm using it at work too as a devops guy, and it's been helping a lot. If I don't know how a certain syntax should look like, I just ask chat gpt and i get full examples that usually work. It's amazing.
I was learning a bit of go a few days ago and then it was also so much faster to learn by asking chat gpt how to do things in that specific language.