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Pandering. The main claim is fine: If you disregard human expertise, AI can end up doing more harm than good. Biggest weakness: Strong sense of 'us vs them',
by nilirl 1y ago
Pandering.
The main claim is fine: If you disregard human expertise, AI can end up doing more harm than good.
Biggest weakness: Strong sense of 'us vs them', 'Agile Industrial Complex' as a term for people working outside engineering, derogatory implication that the 'others' don't have common sense.
Why not address that no one knows how things will play out?
Sure, we have a better idea of how complex software can be, but the uncertainty isn't reserved to non-engineers.
Look at HN, professional software developers are divided in their hopes and predictions for AI.
If we're the experts on software, isn't our job to dampen the general anxiety, not stoke the fire?
- freeone3000 1y agoWell, it sort of depends on if you feel the software isn’t anxiety-inducing? It’s a large system, too large for any person to understand. This system is poorly and partially documented, and then only years after it’s put into place. The exact behaviour of the system is a closely-guarded secret: there are public imitations, but they don’t act the same. This system is known to act with no regard for correctness or external consistency. And this system, and systems like it, are being used, widely, to generate financial presentations and court documents and generate software itself. They’re used for education and research and as conversation partners and therapists. I have anxiety and honestly, I think other people should too.
- nilirl 1y agoSorry, not anxiety, I also meant to include the excitement of possibility. So, maybe anticipation is what I meant. I feel unease about LLMs too, along with a sense of appreciation for them. But this post does not seek to persuade, otherwise it would be written for non-engineers. This post panders.