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After using Copilot that is pretty bad at guessing what I exactly want to do, but still occasionally right on the money and often pretty close: AI is not really

After using Copilot that is pretty bad at guessing what I exactly want to do, but still occasionally right on the money and often pretty close: AI is not really AI and it won't kill us all, but the realization is that a lot of work is just repetitive and really not that clever at all. If I think about all the work I did in my life it follows the same pattern: a new way of doing things comes along, then you start figuring out how to do it and how to use it, and once you're there you rinse and repeat. The real value in the work will be increasingly in why is it useful for people using it, although it probably was like this always, the geeks just didn't pay attention to it. Sorry for not commenting on the article directly.

visarga 2y ago
> a new way of doing things comes along, then you start figuring out how to do it and how to use it, and once you're there you rinse and repeat This happens a billion times a month in chatGPT rooms. User comes with a task, maybe gives some references and guidance. The model responds. User gives more guidance. And this iterates for a while. The LLM gets tons of interactive sessions, it can learn how to rank the useful answers higher. This creates a data flywheel where people generate experience and LLMs learn and iteratively improve. LLMs have the tendency to make people bring the world to them, they interact with the real world through us.
ilaksh 2y ago
Have you ever used gpt-4o, voice mode or Claude 3.5 Sonnet, or any other leading models, or are you really basing your entire assessment on Copilot? OoenAI hasn't even released their best model/capabilities to the public yet. Their text to image capabilities they show in their gpt-4o page are mine-blowing. The (unreleased) voice mode is a huge step up in simulating a person and often quite convincing.
lostmsu 2y ago
Copilot can not read your mind: that is an impressive argument against AI!
- locallost 2y ago
  I actually said it can read my mind which I interpret as my work being repetitive and not that clever. It can still read my mind poorly most of the time, although it's in the ballpark, but on occasion it hammers one home which feels like magic. Whether or not it can get good at reading my mind or not I don't know. But whether it can get good at doing non repetitive tasks that have been done a billion times, well, it feels like a no right now.
  - lostmsu 2y ago
    No, you literally said the opposite. Read your first sentence. > ... Copilot ... is pretty bad at guessing what I exactly want to do
    - locallost 2y ago
      ...but still occasionally right on the money and often pretty close.

visarga 2y ago

> a new way of doing things comes along, then you start figuring out how to do it and how to use it, and once you're there you rinse and repeat This happens a billion times a month in chatGPT rooms. User comes with a task, maybe gives some references and guidance. The model responds. User gives more guidance. And this iterates for a while. The LLM gets tons of interactive sessions, it can learn how to rank the useful answers higher. This creates a data flywheel where people generate experience and LLMs learn and iteratively improve. LLMs have the tendency to make people bring the world to them, they interact with the real world through us.

ilaksh 2y ago

Have you ever used gpt-4o, voice mode or Claude 3.5 Sonnet, or any other leading models, or are you really basing your entire assessment on Copilot? OoenAI hasn't even released their best model/capabilities to the public yet. Their text to image capabilities they show in their gpt-4o page are mine-blowing. The (unreleased) voice mode is a huge step up in simulating a person and often quite convincing.

lostmsu 2y ago

Copilot can not read your mind: that is an impressive argument against AI!

locallost 2y ago
I actually said it can read my mind which I interpret as my work being repetitive and not that clever. It can still read my mind poorly most of the time, although it's in the ballpark, but on occasion it hammers one home which feels like magic. Whether or not it can get good at reading my mind or not I don't know. But whether it can get good at doing non repetitive tasks that have been done a billion times, well, it feels like a no right now.
- lostmsu 2y ago
  No, you literally said the opposite. Read your first sentence. > ... Copilot ... is pretty bad at guessing what I exactly want to do
  - locallost 2y ago
    ...but still occasionally right on the money and often pretty close.