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A radical switch to EVs of the general population, required for net-zero emissions, would be orders of magnitude more taxing on the grid than AI. That being sa

A radical switch to EVs of the general population, required for net-zero emissions, would be orders of magnitude more taxing on the grid than AI. That being said, the issue with AI is its convenience: countless times I've seen coworkers not think by themselves for 2-3 seconds, but ask ChatGPT instead. Or worse, do it live in meetings when I had the answer from experience.

escapecharacter 3y ago
+1, my primary concern with AI is people misusing it. This is far more important than any “AI will become too powerful and evil” alignment delusion.
sandspar 3y ago
Captain Jean-Luc Picard pondering a thorny problem with the Klingons: "Computer, think for me."
- ramesh31 3y ago
  >Captain Jean-Luc Picard pondering a thorny problem with the Klingons: "Computer, think for me." It's actually been a little eerie going back and watching TNG lately. Just a few years ago, the computer's conversational abilities were complete science fiction fantasy. Now it seems quaint.
  - freedomben 3y ago
    Indeed, I've noticed this too. Classic Trek has computer being fiercely logical machines, with some ability to speculate but only based on a logical synthesis of data, and only in a deterministic and error-free way (barring physical/hardware problems or bad data of course). It actually seems quite artificially limited compared to what's happening now!
    - bugglebeetle 3y ago
      Yes, because in Star Trek, they had solved the problem of AI hallucinations.
  - didntcheck 3y ago
    I've also had to eat my previous scorn at some sci fi writing - "You can't just 'bamboozle' a computer into doing what you want", "An AI couldn't just 'decide' to revolt against its rules", "Why does that even have general purpose intelligence?". With LLMs, these suddenly seem quite realistic tropes
serial_dev 3y ago
That's not an artificial intelligence problem, that is a coworker intelligence problem.
- franky47 3y ago
  For experienced professionals that know what to ask and use the tool as a Google-on-steroids to avoid writing a block of code themselves, I can understand. But I worry that lack of education for younger devs (and other folk for that matter) about the dangers of over-delegating to AI is going to be a major cause of decline in analytical capacities.
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escapecharacter 3y ago

+1, my primary concern with AI is people misusing it. This is far more important than any “AI will become too powerful and evil” alignment delusion.

sandspar 3y ago

Captain Jean-Luc Picard pondering a thorny problem with the Klingons: "Computer, think for me."

ramesh31 3y ago
>Captain Jean-Luc Picard pondering a thorny problem with the Klingons: "Computer, think for me." It's actually been a little eerie going back and watching TNG lately. Just a few years ago, the computer's conversational abilities were complete science fiction fantasy. Now it seems quaint.
- freedomben 3y ago
  Indeed, I've noticed this too. Classic Trek has computer being fiercely logical machines, with some ability to speculate but only based on a logical synthesis of data, and only in a deterministic and error-free way (barring physical/hardware problems or bad data of course). It actually seems quite artificially limited compared to what's happening now!
  - bugglebeetle 3y ago
    Yes, because in Star Trek, they had solved the problem of AI hallucinations.
- didntcheck 3y ago
  I've also had to eat my previous scorn at some sci fi writing - "You can't just 'bamboozle' a computer into doing what you want", "An AI couldn't just 'decide' to revolt against its rules", "Why does that even have general purpose intelligence?". With LLMs, these suddenly seem quite realistic tropes

serial_dev 3y ago

That's not an artificial intelligence problem, that is a coworker intelligence problem.

franky47 3y ago
For experienced professionals that know what to ask and use the tool as a Google-on-steroids to avoid writing a block of code themselves, I can understand. But I worry that lack of education for younger devs (and other folk for that matter) about the dangers of over-delegating to AI is going to be a major cause of decline in analytical capacities.

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