All Americans are, ya nitwits
I think just about everyone who is not an executive at a tech company is highly skeptical of AI.
We have a lot of non-management whom are all-in and drinking the kool-ade. I’m still highly put off for a number of reasons, but an outlier.
You’d hope, and yet I’ve had people on Lemmy give me shit for being overtly anti-llm
My problem with LLMs is that they’re expert pattern matchers and little else.
Ask them the integral from 1-5 of ln(x) and they’re sure to screw it up.
They’ll give you something that sounds like the right answer, but their explanations are nonsense.
Cold readings, like a psychic, is how I recently heard them referred to as.
I hate that it’s being shoved into anything and everything right now, but saying you’re “overtly anti-llm” seems a bit over dramatic to me. LLMs are a tool like anything else. Used properly and in the right situation, they can be very helpful.
Remember how a few years ago 3d displays and VR were being shoved in everyone’s faces? I can see the current “AI” trend going the same way.
I’m overtly anti-llm. I don’t think it’s dramatic at all to be so.
Enough has come out about how much power and water datacenters used to train and run it consume, people being driven insane by it, investors hoping to displace jobs with it, how over reliance on it diminishes your mental faculties, people from minors to adults using it to create deepfake porn of minors (literally it’s on lemmy rn https://lemmy.ml/post/32581009), its use in overt misinformation (particularly from our modern warzones and disaster areas), overt theft of writing and artistry to train these things, and last but not least: limitless spam.
I’m affected by most of those things indirectly, but the spam affects me daily. Can’t search for something on the net anymore without being served f-tier LLM-produced garbage.
So what are the good parts? Doesn’t seem like they outweigh these bad parts, whatever they are.
They’re mostly not being used for that and they come at a huge cost
I don’t blame them for being skeptical. Anything that corporations/rich people are enthusiastic about usually ends up screwing them.
Makes sense given that AI has been trained on all the prejudiced blatherings of humanity so far, and it just tries to imitate what it has seen. Yet it’s being used to make decisions as if it’s some wise oracle.
Proper headline:
“Intelligent People Understand the Limits and Dangers of AI; Unfortunately AI Company Leaders Do Not, and Seek to Silence Opposition”
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Guess I must be one of those “marginalized”…
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Marginal people, on the other hand, love it.
How do they define ‘marginalized’?
In this study, we conducted a survey (n = 742) including a representative U.S. sample and an oversample of gender minorities, racial minorities, and disabled individuals to examine how demographic factors shape AI attitudes.
They checked to see whether or not they had Lemmy accounts.
I use AI daily and find it useful as a tool. Its also frustrating in its current state. The disgusting default buttlick responses, trying to please the user with fake polite drool. And then the many, many mistakes.
And it’s a new tool, so yea it need to ripen…
And that means to go all in on a company strategic level of AI as a technology is dumb.
When building a product the problem the product solves is to be the center of the work. Not the technology used to achieve the solution.
I’ve got some bad news for you. They will never fix the mistakes as it cannot reason, it has no actual intelligence. LLMs are already plateauing and are miles away from being trustworthy. And they steal copyrighted work every request
There it is. Reason. Machines can’t reason. Not one. They can fake it. They can mimic. But they cannot reason and never will
The trick is for everyone on the seesaw to move as far away as possible from AI, then it’ll balance or tilt in favour of the people
