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As an intensely tech guy I completely despise the tendency that some engineers have to speak in ambigu-ese and tech-ese making less reacheable what the fr*eak t

As an intensely tech guy I completely despise the tendency that some engineers have to speak in ambigu-ese and tech-ese making less reacheable what the fr*eak they are talking about and establish themselves as "essential experts" when they could easily speak in normal-ese with minimal effort making concepts reachable for colleagues. BTW this can happen to any field, not just tech. It can happen with intellectuals, philosophers, medical doctors, blockchain lingo, AI lingo, devops lingo, telecom lingo.... Fortunately! Now we have AI which is insanely good at summarizing and explanning anything like I'm 6y/o so that little expert trick just got massively nuked and has its days counted.

kevviiinn 4y ago
The AI also regularly misuses terms and gets things wrong
- sebastianconcpt 4y ago
  Not only that, it often lies, and does it in a "convincing" way.
  - buggy6257 4y ago
    So it's doing a pretty good job of imitating those "experts" then too
    - kevviiinn 4y ago
      Which experts? People who are actually experts in their field?
      - sebastianconcpt 4y ago
        These, and the fakers and impostors too.
    - sebastianconcpt 4y ago
      Not a pretty good job, a better job, because, from (it's algerbraic based) imitation, differently from these "experts", it doesn't exclude expressing the same concepts in a different level of abstraction and authoring a coherent story with reasonable accurate analogies. Precisely all the things they omit.
      - kevviiinn 4y ago
        The experts that I work with (PhDs conducting research in their fields) are easy to tell apart from impostors. Impostors can't accurately cite sources and almost never tell me that they don't know something. Essentially all of the actual experts that I personally work with both cite sources and tell me when they don't know something and sometimes even help me figure out how to find out. ChatGPT regularly makes up citations out of thin air including DOIs

kevviiinn 4y ago

The AI also regularly misuses terms and gets things wrong

sebastianconcpt 4y ago
Not only that, it often lies, and does it in a "convincing" way.
- buggy6257 4y ago
  So it's doing a pretty good job of imitating those "experts" then too
  - kevviiinn 4y ago
    Which experts? People who are actually experts in their field?
    - sebastianconcpt 4y ago
      These, and the fakers and impostors too.
  - sebastianconcpt 4y ago
    Not a pretty good job, a better job, because, from (it's algerbraic based) imitation, differently from these "experts", it doesn't exclude expressing the same concepts in a different level of abstraction and authoring a coherent story with reasonable accurate analogies. Precisely all the things they omit.
    - kevviiinn 4y ago
      The experts that I work with (PhDs conducting research in their fields) are easy to tell apart from impostors. Impostors can't accurately cite sources and almost never tell me that they don't know something. Essentially all of the actual experts that I personally work with both cite sources and tell me when they don't know something and sometimes even help me figure out how to find out. ChatGPT regularly makes up citations out of thin air including DOIs