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you can get better at astrology, I'd still advise against carving out a niche there. Claiming you can tame a hurricane of untraceable parameters with guesswork,
by menacingly 4y ago
you can get better at astrology, I'd still advise against carving out a niche there. Claiming you can tame a hurricane of untraceable parameters with guesswork, on rapidly changing systems whose designers have the goal of obviating the need to format queries in magical ways, is dicey at best.
- karaterobot 4y agoI think you're basically saying that this thing is a) a black box, and b) more complex than any human can pretend to understand, even if we cracked open the box and looked inside. But, that does not close off the possibility of learning what ways we can poke and prod it to affect the results. It would be interesting to run an experiment to test whether some people are consistently better at generating desirable results from an AI model. My money would be that they can, even at this early stage of "prompt engineering" as a discipline, let alone 5 or ten years from now. You may also be saying "don't call it engineering, it feels more like black magic," a position I would be sympathetic to. But, I think a lot of realms of engineering deal with uncontrollable elements we don't understand and have to just deal with, with increasing levels of control as our disciplines become more sophisticated.
- menacingly 4y agoI actually appreciate the good-faith rephrasing, and it's correct, but I think my precise concern failed to come across. It's not "local man frowns upon change", it's that I think we've created the mirage of place to add value that is very temporary but may look attractive to people perhaps eventually replaced by this very tech. It's a sweet "don't worry" song while an absolutely exploding area of innovation is actively trying to make it exist less.