It’s probably almost cruelly difficult to find someone with up to date machine learning knowledge who also violently hates slop as much as they ought to.

Edit: obviously I mean hating AI the buzzword, AI the machine god, AI the magic bean stock goes up, AI the cure to critical thinking, AI will change everything, AI = LLM = photo generator. Not hiring someone who abhors the concept of machine learning. I think most people here got what I was thinking of I guess

  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
    341·
    11 days ago

    Depends on what you need doing. Machine learning hasn’t progressed as much as you might think and there’s plenty of us willing to use it where it’s actually valuable.

    The problem for many of us is generative LLMs and the forced nature of the rollout with zero regard for impact. A lot of the “progress” on them is not on the underlying machine learning parts as much these days. They focus more on the data, adding more parameters, or pre/post processing prompts/output.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      11 days ago

      This right here. AI/LLMs by itself is not a problem. It’s merely a tool that can (and often is) abused for whatever purpose. The problem is that it’s being forced on us, used without consent, and unable to be disabled.

      Yesterday I was having a problem in my code that I just couldn’t figure out on. So I asked AI, and in a few minutes it pinpointed a configuration I misapplied, and now my code works. It wasn’t documented not to do it the way I was doing it either. And to be honest, I don’t know if I’d have ever found the issue on my own; at least not in a timely manner.

      • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
        101·
        11 days ago

        It’s merely a tool that can (and often is) abused for whatever purpose

        Louder for the people in the back. Level-headed and reasonable views are very much appreciated, and I’m finding are often in short supply.

        • amniotic druid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          Even Ed Zitron has mellowed out in the last year with the rationalist opinion of “it’s a probabilistic model being asked to do deterministic things,” and “it makes the easy things easier and the harder things harder.”

          The overwheling majority of “anti AI” comments I see are either 1) anti LLM, B) anti hyperscaler business / marketing practices, C) anti data center, or usually D) any combination of the above. Very little about the objective, architectural functions of language models.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        4·
        11 days ago

        also the copyright infringement thing that makes it a huge risk to integrate