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> Couldn't AI like be their custom inventory software? Absolutely not. It's inherently a software with a non-zero amount of probability in every operation. You

> Couldn't AI like be their custom inventory software? Absolutely not. It's inherently a software with a non-zero amount of probability in every operation. You'd have a similar experience asking an intern to remember your inventory. Like I enjoy Copilot as a research tool right but at the same time, ANYTHING that involves delving into our chat history is often wrong. I own three vehicles, for example, and it cannot for it's very life remember the year, make and model of them. Like they're there, but they're constantly getting switched around in the buffer. And once I started positing questions about friend's vehicles that only got worse.

dude250711 1y ago
But you should be able to say "remember this well" and AI would know it needs a reliable database instead of relying on its LLM cache or whatever. Could it not just spin up Postgres in some Codex Cloud like a human developer would? Not today but in a few years?
- handfuloflight 1y ago
  It can do that today. I am doing that today.
- ToucanLoucan 1y ago
  Why do I need to tell an AI to remember things?! How does AI consistently feel less intelligent than regular old boring software?!
  - CamperBob2 1y ago
    Because you're using it wrong. Really. Tool use is a big deal for humans, and it's just as big a deal for machines.
    - roommin 1y ago
      Wouldn't an intelligent computer know to use tools? The core of the point being discussed seems to be why do you need to ask it to make it you inventory software when an intelligent system would know that when asked to build an inventory system setting up a database and logging all the information is need and ask agents to do that.
      - CamperBob2 1y ago
        It's the same question that you might have asked in 1920. "This radio hardly works at all. Can't they do something about all the static? I don't see the big deal. This is just a scam to sell batteries and tubes."
        ToucanLoucan 1y ago
        A radio isn't intelligent and isn't marketed as such. If you're going to sell software you call intelligent, I don't think I'm out of pocket for saying "this feels even dumber than regular software I use."
        roommin 1y ago
        I don't find this comparison fitting.
        CamperBob2 1y ago
        (Shrug) Well, I do. I don't know where you people get the idea that these sorts of things spring forth fully-formed from the brow of Zeus, but it doesn't work that way. This your first paradigm shift? :-P
        roommin 1y ago
        A radio is fundamentally do thing the thing it claims. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally not intelligent. I'm not saying it is useless tech, but no it's not my first paradigm shift, and that's why I can see the difference.

dude250711 1y ago

But you should be able to say "remember this well" and AI would know it needs a reliable database instead of relying on its LLM cache or whatever. Could it not just spin up Postgres in some Codex Cloud like a human developer would? Not today but in a few years?

handfuloflight 1y ago
It can do that today. I am doing that today.
ToucanLoucan 1y ago
Why do I need to tell an AI to remember things?! How does AI consistently feel less intelligent than regular old boring software?!
- CamperBob2 1y ago
  Because you're using it wrong. Really. Tool use is a big deal for humans, and it's just as big a deal for machines.
  - roommin 1y ago
    Wouldn't an intelligent computer know to use tools? The core of the point being discussed seems to be why do you need to ask it to make it you inventory software when an intelligent system would know that when asked to build an inventory system setting up a database and logging all the information is need and ask agents to do that.
    - CamperBob2 1y ago
      It's the same question that you might have asked in 1920. "This radio hardly works at all. Can't they do something about all the static? I don't see the big deal. This is just a scam to sell batteries and tubes."
      - ToucanLoucan 1y ago
        A radio isn't intelligent and isn't marketed as such. If you're going to sell software you call intelligent, I don't think I'm out of pocket for saying "this feels even dumber than regular software I use."
      - roommin 1y ago
        I don't find this comparison fitting.
        CamperBob2 1y ago
        (Shrug) Well, I do. I don't know where you people get the idea that these sorts of things spring forth fully-formed from the brow of Zeus, but it doesn't work that way. This your first paradigm shift? :-P
        roommin 1y ago
        A radio is fundamentally do thing the thing it claims. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally not intelligent. I'm not saying it is useless tech, but no it's not my first paradigm shift, and that's why I can see the difference.