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
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.
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.
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.
also the copyright infringement thing that makes it a huge risk to integrate
You’re right. That and the environmental impacts and economic losses.