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An interesting take on AI is that it's just a tool that overcomes some of the quirks of capitalism, and we are impressed with that because we are so deeply entr
by RC_ITR 4y ago
An interesting take on AI is that it's just a tool that overcomes some of the quirks of capitalism, and we are impressed with that because we are so deeply entrenched in capitalism.
Put differently - every website needs a back-end. 95%+ of websites don't differentiate on their back-end, but they still need to build from scratch since there's no incentive for businesses to share knowledge with unaffiliated businesses.
One way this problem is solved is neutral platforms like AWS that sell the 'good enough' turn-key solution (keep in mind, at one point, the cloud had nearly as much hype as AI does now).
Another way to solve the problem is an AI that 'makes' the back-end code 'from scratch,' but is really just returning the code (cribbed from its training dataset) that probabilistically answers your question in the best way possible, based on the results of its training.
The AI option seems really impressive to us right now, because we haven't seen it before (much like photoshop in the 90's), but eventually we get used to it. Once we get to that phase, we will either regulate AI until it looks like a marketplace business (the creators of the training dataset maybe should be compensated) or we will just see 'generating code from a training dataset' as so basic that we move on to other, harder problems that have no training dataset yet (in the same way Quickbooks has largely replaced book-keepers, but digital advertisers for small business are increasingly relevant).
- ProllyInfamous 4y ago>[using probability it] answers your question in the best way possible, based on the results of its training. In medical school, we were taught Differential Diagnosis, which is the manner which GPs MUST utilize to solve symptoms. This is a probabilistically-determined ranking of what is MOST LIKELY to be the cause, based on how the patient presents [medical symptoms]. A LLM like ChatGPT is already demonstrating can, with a over-worked (&underpaid) GP, filter through many of the "first guess" diagnosis, and prevent unnecessary testing using information that extend beyond the single minds of patient and doctor. These datasets know how every. other. body. has. responded. to treatment... and if they don't now, they will. The ability for the "Democratization of mental healthcare" has already arrived, and positive, motivations responses that people are already getting from these system (e.g. finding purpose by asking "what GPT thinks [AUTHOR]'s POV on 'the meaning of life'?") is absolutely profound; and absolutely unavailable to the large swaths of men which society so-readily ignored (e.g. veterans). ...until now. I am glad I did not finish medical school, because the writing was on the was fifteen years ago, and one of the few justification for an expensive doctor's salary now is [from a hospital administrator's view] just a way to distribute liability among the FEW humans that can remain in competition simply by putting-together absolutely esoteric connections. Peace.
- daveguy 4y ago> filter through many of the "first guess" diagnosis, and prevent unnecessary testing using information that extend beyond the single minds of patient and doctor. Source? I haven't heard anyone report this kind of capability for chatGPT or any other model. I have seen a lot of examples of very confident and wrong. Which is the opposite of what you want in a probabilistic assessment.
- ProllyInfamous 4y agoRE: Confident but wrong. This is why the Human Interpreter (Dr. Prompt Engineer? Dreamweaver? Pattern Seeker?) is still so necessary. For now, R.