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Wait, you mean workers don't love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs?
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Blindly hating a tool is a you issue. Thousands of people needing to solve the same problem over and over is inefficient. Learn and practice for learning sake and then keep going researching new solutions in academia as in any other field. Or start applying proven solutions in industry as any other field does where experience which solution to apply makes the value proposition.
When a tool is a hindrance to the solution, while also making people more stupid and consuming vast resources and contributing to climate change, then the hate is deserved.
A tool is only as good as the person using it. There is literally a saying about a hammer being the only tool and every problem looking like a nail.
The hammer salesman has infiltrated every corporate marketing team on the planet. It is a requirement to use the hammer at a shit load on companies.
Pretty much my problem. The salesman is telling the carpenter how to do their craft. And the boss goes along with it because its more profitable to say you're using a hammer than it is to actually build and fix stuff.
It'd be deliberate corporate sabotage if I didn't believe they were so stupid.
Valid criticism.
It's pretty pervasive, and that campaign was way more successful than I ever thought it would be.
It's gonna be a wait and see type deal, but imo not going great
Let's hope so.
Sure, we have a name for that: Not-invented-Here (NIH) Syndrome. AI is not solving that Inefficiency.
Let me know when you find them, please.
It is a tool for making billionaires more billions, that is about it. It can write sloppy code for you, and give you inaccurate and often directly erronous answers stolen from the people who actually provided those answers in the first place. It is not helping you in research, it is just making you forget how to actually research anything and making your brain lazier and lazier until your only source of information is its gaslighting.
It can't do anything of the sort you are claiming it can do.
You're right. Time to pull myself up by my
Bootstrap.jsand really apply my creative self to academia. I'm going straight to the nearest science building to innovate.Edit: they told me to go home
Is this comment ai? It stops making sense about halfway through.
“Everything I don’t like is AI”
Okay but this comment specifically. Did you read it? What is it saying?
Ignoring environmental issues, the issue at the moment is the tool is not production ready. If I design a tool to measure length of something but I can't be confident the measurement will be right within a specific tolerance the tool is useless. If the tool is just guessing, well I can do that without the tool. Yeah it may be 85% accurate but I still have to employ someone to verify each one or risk selling bad product, because I can't trust the tool.
People don't "solve the same problem" over and over again, they learn what the solution is. You probably know a^2 + b^2 = c^2 or the Pythagoras theorem. You learned that. You didn't "solve" it.
Now in addition you may have learned some uses of it. Things like measuring a shadow or knowing how long a road is going up a mountain. You also probably learned it won't work to calculate how to shoot a basketball. Yes you know height of hoop and can measure the distance from you to hoop but the result is wrong because you throw on a parabolic curve not in straight line(not to mention gravity and air resistance etc). Ai doesn't recognize those differences. If you tell it "given the height of a hoop and distance from the hoop, how can I tell how hard to throw a ball to get it into the hoop" it will give you an equation, probably calculate the distance with Pythagoras, then gathering average mass of standard basketball, and incorporating them into an equation for force required to push that mass to that distance.
From a software developer perspective another issue is context. I've seen alot of Ai slop where they calculate a value(say distance to monster in a game) each time it's needed. Any software dev would calculate it once, store in variable, use it as many times you need, recalculate on next frame.
Again this is all ignoring the environmental, legal, societal, medical, mental effects. Just focusing on the fact the technology is several generations behind hoping to be production ready.