For me, It enables two forms of accessibility that lets me work, training AI is functionally the same thing as training humans.
It helps researchers find new treatments from any conditions, reveal truths embedded in masses of data.
Somewhere I mentioned that the ancient Persian notion of a red or glowing face signified divine royal blood and that evolved into the Christian notion of a halo. In trying to find a reference at least a Google AI summary gave terminology. (maybe google now limits the hits/page to encourage AI use)
I find tremendous, albeit narrow, value from AI. I categorized, in 30 minutes, 100s of text comments from a large survey. It saved me a full day. I use to draft and summarize docs, help with brainstorming new ways of thinking about problems, get help with Excel formulas, etc.
Yes, it's risky and even foolish to use AI to solve some use cases. And model collapse is a very real risk for LLMs and GANs. But to say AI is not useful is just whistling past the cemetery.
Yes, 20 minutes including a quick validation vs 8 hours is a big deal. Frankly, saving 15-30 minutes by using an LLM to generate an Excel function or macro is also a big deal, when similar-shaped tasks (summarizing email threads, drafting a doc, etc.) occur several times per day.
Your argument is like saying, "Why use that Google thing when you can get trusted books on the subject at the local library?" LLMs can help you do things you already know how to do, but much faster. Is there risk? Of course! Just use common sense not to just regurgitate everything LLMs generate.
Hammers and knives are useful for building and cooking.
Guns are useful for killing.
AIG is useful for plagiarism and mass firing.
I can't imagine a situation where any of the last two can be good.
I keep thinking about how tech bros are pouring all this money and resources into something that’ll still only mimic a fraction of the brain’s processing power while simultaneously killing the environment that helps our brains thrive
I’m using Lilo myself, and haven’t noticed any AI shit yet. But I haven’t dug deeper in a bit, so maybe it changed and I just don’t pay enough attention when I do a quick search.
Look, I'm not saying "ai is good actually" just that Google is SO broken due to bad business decisions that ChaTGPT LOOKS like a viable alternative to the average user not paying attention to the news
Even those don't tell the truth of the problem. Today's AI is not an evil super mind who wants to take over the world. It's a glorified parrot that is being sold by grifter investors as the future. So people are losing jobs and getting fed misinformation by a machine that hallucinates half the time.
At this point AI is barely a thing and nobody sees a clear path to making it a thing. It attracted a lot of money from a lot of influential people and those people have to make us all believe that they built something meaningful.
That was Internet in the beginning ... a hype, would pass, nothing important, you would quickly get tired of browsing the few web pages - all accurate sentences - I remember. I had a FirstClass e-mail address - I was curious ;) Some years ago!
I was around for that and before and I'm telling you it's not the same. We saw the potential of the internet from the very beginning and knew that all it needed was infrastructure. The AI guys are claiming the same thing but it's simply not true.
AI pollution erases all benefits.
AI pollution will further degrade rural communities to benefit the 1%.
Using AI is lazy, incurious, & arrogant plagiarism.
Derivative intelligence is not original thought or theory.
It’s juvenile & wasted oxygen for the planet.
Ehhhhhh, kinda wrong.
AI is turning into the Boogyman as of late. AI isn't just ChatGPT. AI can help look for cancers better because human eyes can only see so much, and other healthcare improvements. Ironically, AI can help mitigate climate change and help agriculture.
It's not all bad
There are a few things called "AI" that can do good things. So the AIG that is popular now must be a good thing too. The confusion with the term is another strategy of the tech corporations.
does it allow people to communicate over long distances
- no
does it help humans share data they could not otherwise share - no
does it help people build skills and human knowledge
- no
is it new tech? - no, it's been around for 10+years
/s clearly it's the next internet! (says marketing)
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It helps researchers find new treatments from any conditions, reveal truths embedded in masses of data.
The ideology of "AI is bad" hides the benefits
Guns are useful for killing.
AIG is useful for plagiarism and mass firing.
I can't imagine a situation where any of the last two can be good.
Hyvä. 😅
Google has been INTENTIONALLY sabotaging search b/c the more times you have to search to find what you want the more sponsored posts you'll see
DuckDuckGo, Lilo, Ecosia to cite a few.
Qwant if you’re in Europe. Seekr if you want a political heatmap of the results.
Sadly, most of them are using AI
I’m using Lilo myself, and haven’t noticed any AI shit yet. But I haven’t dug deeper in a bit, so maybe it changed and I just don’t pay enough attention when I do a quick search.
Still better than Google.
AI can spot cancer on a scan and can sort shrimp by its size by the pound, but ask it to do a search engine's job, and it starts hallucinating
They can grope at fail technology they divised for decades in hopes it would work differently next time.
AI pollution will further degrade rural communities to benefit the 1%.
Using AI is lazy, incurious, & arrogant plagiarism.
Derivative intelligence is not original thought or theory.
It’s juvenile & wasted oxygen for the planet.
AI is turning into the Boogyman as of late. AI isn't just ChatGPT. AI can help look for cancers better because human eyes can only see so much, and other healthcare improvements. Ironically, AI can help mitigate climate change and help agriculture.
It's not all bad
Truly great minds resolve conflicts, cure diseases, and deal with the world's real problems rather than just make toys to turn themselves into stupidly rich fools.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0UJYT4Tov8yuYDCq9WzO6q?si=g_ZIlxPBSWmtybVnzemulQ
- no
does it help humans share data they could not otherwise share - no
does it help people build skills and human knowledge
- no
is it new tech? - no, it's been around for 10+years
/s clearly it's the next internet! (says marketing)
but really felt for the exhausted robot that died
can relate to that https://youtu.be/6Kp5qrCExps?si=PWBrvFbroTTRJyqg
All hail Emperor LOLMEMESFROG 3.0
*camera pulls back to reveal the ruins of civilization, overgrown with plant life*
It is BAD.