I admit, I do get lazy and ask AI what happened to a favorite character on a show I missed or why they did something or other if I missed plot point. So I guess AI can watch TV for me and I can go outside and enjoy nature.
I'm a software developer, and my company has integrated an AI tool (GitHub Copilot) into our editor (Visual Studio Code).
It's pretty much about as useful and reliable as autocomplete. You have to know what the right code looks like to tell if the suggestion works. If you don't know... 😬
Where this kind of tool can add value is when the coder doesn't know the most normal way to do something and the AI presents a pattern that's really well established.
How did it get to be established? Through decades of humans gradually settling on it as a standard.
What happens when coders rely more and more on AI suggestions and stop understanding how to innovate and decide on a better pattern even though it breaks the norm?
The snake is already eating its own tail, as we've seen with genny art cannibalizing itself.
What if you gamify it? Have programmers rack up “experience points” as they progress in their field and learn to put all those established design patterns into practice. Then, when they reach a certain level, graduate them to “hard mode” and *take away* the AI. Otherwise they can’t advance further.
Why not take it a full step further and adopt a "pay-per-piece" model based on the # of lines of code entered, instead of salaried? Then players could be rewarded with income but only for the code they are deemed to have individually produced & contributed & the assigned value of that contribution?
This would reward the wrong things. Reducing the number of lines is often more valuable than adding more lines.
Also, if my salaried career suddenly became an unpredictable contract thing like this, I'd just go back to teaching. The most competent employees tend to have options.
Then you could apply it to outsourcing of code based on a Uber-like network of freelance "contributors", in effect assisting the AI to complete basic programming tasks while getting special rewards like a 50%-off Groupon Coupon to McDonalds for running innovative code (that the company now owns)?
It’s still the thing that’s gotten me started and actually working on things
My ADHD cannot tolerate tutorials when they aren’t answering the questions I have with the scope I need. Or the way they’re answering the question means I can’t do something else I want to do
Oh dang, I hear that! Going through basic tutorials is valuable but not necessarily fun at all, and it only gets uou so far. To actually *learn*, I've always had to make a little project for myself and then figure things out bit by bit as I need them. I can see AI helping there, used with caution.
I find AI autocomplete very irritating, autocomplete used to be useful because it would complete things that were actually in your code; AI autocomplete makes up things so now it's worse than useless and I have to type everything out anyway.
In general, autocomplete messes me up as often as it helps. Even with something basic like trying to load up a website in Chrome. In VSCode, sometimes it's flat-out bizarre what it fills in for me. So when I said "as useful and reliable..." I meant not very.
A.I. is a load of crap. People want to talk to other people ok? We don't give a fuck about companies trying to save money if the experience with them is terrible. We will flee A.I. and seek human contact with other companies.
oh hello existential dread, i didn't see you on my calendar for this morning 😅 but also: was shopping for a new electric toothbrush and like half of them advertise having AI now. no claims on what the AI is doing differently. it's just in there. doing something. maybe?
There's a whole adoption curve. I remember when the internet on phones was crap. IPhone changed things. AI will be crap and then it won't be. When AI isn't crap, I'll start worrying.
Great video. She isn't wrong. AI will have some very practical applications that will save humans a lot of time and grunt work but most people won't "use" it in their day to day lives.
Adobe Acrobat pushing the AI Assistant on me everyday but all it does is a) crash Adobe Acrobat and b) slow down the whole computer and c) makes this crispy noise? Something's making the crispy noise.
I mean, reflecting on the art that came from passion, practice, and dedication.
The exploration of creative minds is happening for us to receive low quality "goods and services" while being opposed to that and never having signed up for such a depressing hell hole.
Please use our AI service that actively makes our products worse and your customer experience harder. Also, all our prices have jumped 30% to cover the 3% increase in costs associated with including the AI.
You should see the Facebook ads I get😫
One click in morbid fascination, now Zuk is peppering me with ads for AI tarts, like a Gatling cannon using Jessica Rabbits for ammunition.
It's like being trapped The Winchester but Simon Pegg is nowhere to be seen and and and the moaning is, different.
You could pitch a company that's sole idea is to make snow shovels with AI functionality and find a venture capitalist stupid enough to invest in it because it has AI.
It’s just the latest fad. In the nineties, when CD-ROMs became a thing, every pitch that whispered “multimedia” got money thrown at it. Same thing happened with the web, then mobile apps and social media, and now “AI”. The bubble will burst.
Last time I tried to buy a toothbrush they all cost £80+ and had ai in them so I scoured the internet and brought like 3 of the regular degular kind from sketchy places.
Are we at the exact stage AI predicted we'd be at, and it's smugly counting the kills already.
Bemused in a completely understandable way about how stupid we are.
#fishinabarrel
But it's from the same island, how can it be different? 😜 It's time for Scotland to get back into the EU and say bye bye to the Queen. Oh wait, the queen is already decomposing...
'You stood on the shoulders of geniuses, uh, to accomplish something as fast as you could [...] but your scientists were so preoccupied over whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.' - Ian Malcolm, _Jurassic Park_
Genuinely Intelligent.
You really hit the nail on the AI head
Which split into a billion fragments of glass jelly
Before forming a swirling bottomless whirlpool of goo
Without end, without feeling
A novocaine for the LCD screen
I saw an AI toaster advertised the other day, it had the same design as a regular toast, but because the box had a sticker on it that said "AI", it was £50 more expensive.
Recent board meeting we talked about AI in our space and while one of our nutjobs thought "its the bees knees" our primarily older, tech averse ownership segment decided that AI was a really bad idea.
I've never been so thankful for people who find email baffling.
Right? I heard about "AI-driven decision-making" in a reporting tool at an accountancy firm my friend works for. It is actually a bunch of very basic if-statements that react to the inputs in about 5 different ways, and is neither new nor innovative - but calling it AI made the board very excited 🙄
When the company is challenged for their shiny “AI” toy being a crock of shit, the first line of defence is always “ah but this is just v1.0, just wait, here’s our whole roadmap of nonsense”
There’s only one thing in the world that gives me supernatural creeps, and that’s AI generated imagery. Feel like I’m going down the storm drain with Pennywise.
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I wish there would be one on research ('we don't need to interview people anymore, we have AI')
No.
It's pretty much about as useful and reliable as autocomplete. You have to know what the right code looks like to tell if the suggestion works. If you don't know... 😬
How did it get to be established? Through decades of humans gradually settling on it as a standard.
What happens when...
The snake is already eating its own tail, as we've seen with genny art cannibalizing itself.
This is the way the world ends.
Also, if my salaried career suddenly became an unpredictable contract thing like this, I'd just go back to teaching. The most competent employees tend to have options.
Oh god, that's literally the path of development of the tech priests of mars.
It's not even hyperbole at this point, that's literally how the story of their development goes.
We are in the process of turning coding into magical incantations nobody truly understands the functions of.
I hade some really cool l system plants generating for a while though!
My ADHD cannot tolerate tutorials when they aren’t answering the questions I have with the scope I need. Or the way they’re answering the question means I can’t do something else I want to do
I’m definitely too impatient
I’m someone who learns about Markov chains, soil microbiology, neural nets and plate tectonic simulations for fun.
There aren’t many tutorials for games about the soil food web lol.
STILL.
we're still.
stuckage.
:)
Not how or why or even if it works.
AI FOR EVERYONE.
Sci-fi authors saw this coming 60 years ago.
There's a whole adoption curve. I remember when the internet on phones was crap. IPhone changed things. AI will be crap and then it won't be. When AI isn't crap, I'll start worrying.
I did not need to feel attacked by a throwaway line at the end of a YouTube short, and yet here I am.
Honestly if Adobe AI could write some of the documents I have to do, let it try. I know I hate trying to please 20 conflicting reviewers.
The exploration of creative minds is happening for us to receive low quality "goods and services" while being opposed to that and never having signed up for such a depressing hell hole.
Why? Because, 🖕! That's why.
AI cannot write Alice Winn's novel, “In Memoriam"
When we recognize where it fits, & refuse it where it does not, we'll be fine.
One click in morbid fascination, now Zuk is peppering me with ads for AI tarts, like a Gatling cannon using Jessica Rabbits for ammunition.
It's like being trapped The Winchester but Simon Pegg is nowhere to be seen and and and the moaning is, different.
You don't have the actual..
A bubble. No real world new net value created, much destroyed.
Our problems are actually very elemental: Fire, water, air, earth.
But You can't afford them 🤪
Who knew I’d be stockpiling toothbrushes.
Bemused in a completely understandable way about how stupid we are.
#fishinabarrel
They could have just read this book in 2013 to find out how it turns out.
I wonder if Google stole the missing head.
Or, nah, you're right. It's just crap.
https://youtu.be/GOhYrBQFSTQ?si=M9hrIZNqd24Pg7Vi
I love how now that ppl are seeing what AI can actually do, NOBODY is talking about 'the singularity' anymore 😂
Anyway this was really good so I'm going to chuck a coffee at you.
You really hit the nail on the AI head
Which split into a billion fragments of glass jelly
Before forming a swirling bottomless whirlpool of goo
Without end, without feeling
A novocaine for the LCD screen
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
I've never been so thankful for people who find email baffling.
are you what you Aire or what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA
Unspoken rule is. Don’t criticise the AI plan even when it’s clearly bullshit.
I’m leaving.
The trouble starts when users/customers start actually using it. The bubble bursts pretty quickly.