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Partially, it is hard to "prove the negative" in a way. The real issue and logical fallacy is people are frontrunning the argument: they are making extraordina

Partially, it is hard to "prove the negative" in a way. The real issue and logical fallacy is people are frontrunning the argument: they are making extraordinary claims of either the current capabilities of the tech or future capabilities, without offering evidence beyond "it's obvious!" or "have you tried it?" or "use the latest model, it's much better!" etc.. and maybe they don't realize it, but these are not good-faith conversations/arguments. So, you can't respond to these - there really isn't anything to respond to, and the person is not conversing in good faith (they are assuming you're unfamiliar with the tech, they are assuming a bunch of things, really), though I do give them the benefit of the doubt and would say they aren't doing this to be trolls, they're just excited about the tech. Same with BTC, but BTC had some extra benefits: with BTC it had a "dual use" really, the currency made promises "of course BTC is going to take off, it's obvious!" and the tech made promises "wow, can you imagine the uses of a blockchain!?" I mean, I had my CTO still saying in 2023 that we should use blockchain tech for a CENTRALIZED platform. Unbelievable!

Lendal 4y ago
I know exactly where you're coming from. I've tried to avoid the hype train but I still feel the hot wind from it because I literally had my manager ask me if I could use ChatGPT to do my last project faster. I was astounded. It's tough when you know a dumb idea is not going to work, but now you have to articulate exactly why to your manager, without insulting them. Also without wasting a lot of valuable time proving something won't work, when you could be using that time to make actual progress on the project. I feel like a lot of valuable time is going to be wasted by engineers trying to prove to managers why ChatGPT can't do a certain thing they want done faster. I don't believe ChatGPT will be a net negative for the world, but it won't be as positive as it could be exactly because of the hype effect.
- roflyear 4y ago
  One thing I learned, is you probably should not come across as someone who says "no" a lot to their manager - if you like working where you do in general. Ask open and positive questions, like "that could be a good idea, where do you think we can use it?" (or find even a better phrasing for this, managers are often very defensive, especially when they are not very skilled) rather than "how do you think that would work?" which is often my first response... hah!

Lendal 4y ago

I know exactly where you're coming from. I've tried to avoid the hype train but I still feel the hot wind from it because I literally had my manager ask me if I could use ChatGPT to do my last project faster. I was astounded. It's tough when you know a dumb idea is not going to work, but now you have to articulate exactly why to your manager, without insulting them. Also without wasting a lot of valuable time proving something won't work, when you could be using that time to make actual progress on the project. I feel like a lot of valuable time is going to be wasted by engineers trying to prove to managers why ChatGPT can't do a certain thing they want done faster. I don't believe ChatGPT will be a net negative for the world, but it won't be as positive as it could be exactly because of the hype effect.

roflyear 4y ago
One thing I learned, is you probably should not come across as someone who says "no" a lot to their manager - if you like working where you do in general. Ask open and positive questions, like "that could be a good idea, where do you think we can use it?" (or find even a better phrasing for this, managers are often very defensive, especially when they are not very skilled) rather than "how do you think that would work?" which is often my first response... hah!