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Reminder that AI code synthesizers steal all of your opportunities to make and learn from mistakes.
It makes all the mistakes for you, and then doesn't learn anything, because learning is not a thing it can do, because understanding is not a thing it can do.
Then you get stuck with the mistakes.
Even if you ignore everything else, all the theft and fraud and exploitation, all the waste, all the manipulation, all of it. Generative AI is still unreliable. I don't understand why people are so eager to use an unreliable tool. Like, yeah, I love those wobbly hammers! It makes no sense.
@jenniferplusplus Literally all medicine doesn't work all the time. We still want medicine. I agree with your conclusion, but not with the argument.
@dascandy42 @jenniferplusplus Generative AI doesn't have that same context of "tested and approved for use in this specific case based on large clinical trials", so I think the comparison to medicine doesn't quite work, as in medicine the uncertainties and side effects are quantified and documented in the leaflet.
I guess the equivalent might be something "tested and approved for generating images of cats"?
@patrizia @jenniferplusplus I'm not comparing the result itself to medicine; I'm just comparing the "tool that is only 93% correct" to something else that's also only 93% doing what it's supposed to, and indicating that that's not an argument against.
@dascandy42 @patrizia @jenniferplusplus
Would you want to use, lets say a compiler that generates the right code in 93% of the time?
@ap0llo @patrizia @jenniferplusplus Depends on what the alternatives are. The flat number itself is not the deciding bit here.
@dascandy42 but the tools of medicine have extremely reliable, predictable behavior. Xray machines don't just guess at which bone is broken. Pills don't just mix in whatever random chemical feel out of a probability tree. But ai does those things.
🅻🆄🅴I tried multiple times, but I think I'm going to have to give you an audio reply because it's so damn nuanced to answer this question.
@jenniferplusplus people are dumb and will chase the current shinny until they have gone over the cliff.
@MishaVanMollusq people loathe unreliable tools in every other context. Even reliable but unfamiliar tools that they just haven't learned they can rely on yet. How do you feel about driving someone else's car for the first time? There's nothing wrong with it, but the steering, acceleration, brakes, size, and blind spots are all different than your car.
@jenniferplusplus because it's a tech fad. Because people are curious, and because eventually maybe it will be Skynet. What times, eh 
20-25 years ago... anything with the letters: .net or dotnet was selling gangbusters- and was also not considered quality.
Maybe we need to burn the letters: AI into some crap tools... to make those sales pop.
@jenniferplusplus
"AI" is a misnomer. There is nothing "intelligent" about it. It is basically a means to mine the vast trove of data that has been collected & attempt to analyze. So far the analysis is stupid. It is less impressive than what a small child can understand by observing the world around them in the context of their lived experience.
Producing deep fake art is not intelligence. Finding obscure references in a data search is useful but not intelligence.
@dbc3 From the article that I wrote and you're replying to
So-Called AI
Artificial Intelligence is an unhelpful term. It serves as a vehicle for people's invalid assumptions. It hand-waves an enormous amount of complexity regarding what "intelligence" even is or means. [...] However, AI is the vernacular term for this whole concept, so it's the one I'll use. I'll let other people push that boulder, I'm here to push a different one.
@jenniferplusplus
One of the awkward things about not having a convenient "quote toot" is a comment intended to express agreement can seem argumentative to the op. I try to remember to preface with "I concur," or take the time to copy link, start a new post, put the linlk with comments. Slipped up this morning and just typed. Had a zoom meeting to get help with tax filing about to start.
It’s kinda funny to watch how capitalisms drive to value short term gains over long term sustainability has resulted in our economy becoming one huge game of 1st grade soccer. Where everyone just swarms to ball and has no idea wtf they are doing
