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Yeah but it really defeats the purpose if you need to be an expert in order to understand if it's telling you something dead wrong and sending you on a goose ch
by chrisco255 4y ago
Yeah but it really defeats the purpose if you need to be an expert in order to understand if it's telling you something dead wrong and sending you on a goose chase.
- antonvs 4y agoIt depends what you think the purpose is. I'm quite happy to have a tool that can assist me rather than replace me.
- Radim 4y ago> I'm quite happy to have a tool that can assist me rather than replace me. Another way to look at it might be that you assist the machine, rather than the machine assists you. * Human engineers a prompt = preprocesses the messy reality. * AI does the "creative core" of the task, comes up with a solution. * Human post-processes the AI output back to reality, validating and actuating it. Basically humans as a thin API layer. Who's helping who? Right now, the prompt engineering is motivated by human desire for reproduction and survival (ultimately). But that's just incidental, the loop may be closed.
- antonvs 4y agoThat’s not what it looks like at the moment, although it may in future. The AI isn’t yet coming close to doing the creative core of technical tasks - in fact that’s pretty much precisely what it can’t do, yet. Instead, it’s acting as a powerful interface to a large knowledge store - a bit like a search engine on steroids, but one that can usefully tailor the answers to queries, rather than just copying what someone else once wrote on the subject. Besides, as long as AIs aren’t conscious, there’s not really any question about who’s helping who. If that changes, then it’ll become much like any paid service exchange between humans, including e.g. ordering a hamburger. Both parties are supposed to benefit, although there’s often an imbalance.