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Anyone who has used AI recently knows how much bullshit the claims are about replacing any human for virtually any task. AI still can't do super advanced things

Anyone who has used AI recently knows how much bullshit the claims are about replacing any human for virtually any task. AI still can't do super advanced things like tell me the correct height of my truck from the manufacturer's tech specs PDF that it has in its databank. Even when I tell it what the correct height is, it'll randomly change the height throughout a session. I have to constantly correct it because thankfully I know enough about a given subject that I know it's bullshitting. Once I correct it, it suddenly admits, oh yeah, actually it was this other thing, here's the right info. It's an amazing search engine, and has really cool suggestions/ideas. It's certainly very useful. But replace a human? Get real. All these stocks are going to tank once the media starts running honest articles instead of PR fluff.

nprateem 2y ago
Exactly. It was a stroke of genius to popularise the word 'hallucinate' instead of 'bullshit' or 'wrong'. Since it has no fundamental understanding of anything, it's either a sycophant or arrogant idiot. When I told chatgpt it didn't understand something it obnoxiously told me it understood perfectly. When I told it why, it did a 180 and carried on where I'd left off. I don't use it any more.
Henchman21 2y ago
Do you have an ETA for when the media will start running honest articles instead of PR fluff? Asking for the entire western world…
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- cratermoon 2y ago
  About the time they stop depending on targeted advertising revenue.
alabastervlog 2y ago
The things feel closer to using a fine-grained search algo with some randomness and a fairly large corpus, than to interacting with something intelligent. And if you read how they work... that's because that's exactly what they are. There's no thinking going on. When using them, that they've been programmed and prompted to have some kind of tone or personality and to fit within some kind of parameters of "behavior" as if they're a real being reminds me of Flash-based site navigation in the early '00s: flashy bullshit that's impressive for about one minute and then just annoying and inconvenient forever. As for programming with them, writing the prompts feels more like just another kind of programming than instructing a human. I'm skeptical this entire approach is more than one small part of what might become AGI, given several more somewhat-unrelated breakthroughs, including probably in hardware. Like a lot of us, I've gotten sucked into building products with these things because every damn company on the planet, tech or not, has decided to do that for usually-very-bad reasons, and I'm a little worried this is going to crash so hard that having been involved in it at all will be a (minor) black mark on my résumé.
- kibwen 2y ago
  > I'm a little worried this is going to crash so hard that having been involved in it at all will be a (minor) black mark on my résumé. "I see there's a gap here on your resume, what were you doing between 2021 and 2025?" "Uh... Prison."

nprateem 2y ago

Exactly. It was a stroke of genius to popularise the word 'hallucinate' instead of 'bullshit' or 'wrong'. Since it has no fundamental understanding of anything, it's either a sycophant or arrogant idiot. When I told chatgpt it didn't understand something it obnoxiously told me it understood perfectly. When I told it why, it did a 180 and carried on where I'd left off. I don't use it any more.

Henchman21 2y ago

Do you have an ETA for when the media will start running honest articles instead of PR fluff? Asking for the entire western world…

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cratermoon 2y ago
About the time they stop depending on targeted advertising revenue.

alabastervlog 2y ago

The things feel closer to using a fine-grained search algo with some randomness and a fairly large corpus, than to interacting with something intelligent. And if you read how they work... that's because that's exactly what they are. There's no thinking going on. When using them, that they've been programmed and prompted to have some kind of tone or personality and to fit within some kind of parameters of "behavior" as if they're a real being reminds me of Flash-based site navigation in the early '00s: flashy bullshit that's impressive for about one minute and then just annoying and inconvenient forever. As for programming with them, writing the prompts feels more like just another kind of programming than instructing a human. I'm skeptical this entire approach is more than one small part of what might become AGI, given several more somewhat-unrelated breakthroughs, including probably in hardware. Like a lot of us, I've gotten sucked into building products with these things because every damn company on the planet, tech or not, has decided to do that for usually-very-bad reasons, and I'm a little worried this is going to crash so hard that having been involved in it at all will be a (minor) black mark on my résumé.

kibwen 2y ago
> I'm a little worried this is going to crash so hard that having been involved in it at all will be a (minor) black mark on my résumé. "I see there's a gap here on your resume, what were you doing between 2021 and 2025?" "Uh... Prison."