Fuck AI

Just utility? I can probably generate a bunch of school textbooks, fan fiction stories and children books with generative AI. Put them on some print on demand service and once some sorry soul is fooled and buys them, it's some utility. At least to me...

I think it's super involved to assess utility in a good way. Not even the large companies know whether AI coding makes their workforce more or less productive once everything is factored in. So, if it's the kind of utility they're looking for. And then there will be downsides so we gotta balance and weigh everything...

If you're putting it there as some impossible first step to do... Well done 😄

... or banned until we have adequate time to study the long term effects this technology will have on child development.

we already struggle as a society with educating and shaping kids into well rounded, emotionally stable, socially competent adults.

we need to do a better job funding and prioritizing child welfare in general before we sign off on allowing billionaire owned Fortune 5 companies a direct pipeline into the consciousness of still developing human minds. just as a matter of public health policy, let alone performance/utility.

There is more to ai than just its potential use.

Many of us grew up expecting ai due to reading and watching science fiction. I doubt the majority expected it to be controlled by the worst people on the planet, or that it would be used to manipulate society, or that it would be environmentally destructive, or that it would be deliberately used for privacy invasion/control/fascism.

It was meant to be a good thing.

Based.

I think that AI as, for example, a super-summarizer, or a search engine on steroids, is fairly good, but it at least should give ALL the sources that were used, put a big disclaimer, and a huge liability of responsibility, as user SHOULD and MUST be reviewing all sources.

Basically, it should be just a tool to find rather niche, rare, obscure or otherwise buried by SEO sources.

But if you just want it to do all the work for you, then you probably should be automatically disqualified from your educative or public institution.

There is some utility, and frankly it won't go away so kids should eventually be taught its use and its failures.

These LLM models can be very useful for organizing large data sets. I know I've saved hours of time by feeding it very specific instructions to create some data classes and subsequent symbology for a couple of hundred points.

However, it never would have worked if I didn't already have the knowledge on how the software I was using to display my data worked and a strong knowledge of my data. It only worked because I was able to give it hyper specific instructions on how to process my data. Even then I still had to proof and make some tweeks, but ultimately a time saver.

This is what kids need to be taught. The first assignment given in high school allowing the use of AI should task students with running a selection of prompts to produce an incorrect statement or answer. Then students should be instructed to "trick" the AI into giving a wrong answer themselves.