GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding

GrapheneOS is currently defending its use of AI coding tools on Mastodon against complaints by various accounts claiming to be users.

We do not understand where you’re coming from or why you’re so incredibly angry with us. It’s not justified and does not make sense.

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I’d argue that this news is over-blown. The project has more than a solid and honorable track record with insanely talented engineers behind it. AI is a new technology that is not going anywhere. I would put my faith into their decisions to improve this project by whatever means they think are best.

The truth is most commenters are not technically skilled to evaluate or critique their decisions. If GOS team, who again would be at the top % in the field, feel that this can elevate the project, should we not give them the benefit of the doubt?

AI is a new technology that is not going anywhere.

I always wonder where this sentiment comes from. Whether or not AI is going anywhere is still very much up in the air

It’s not going anywhere because it’s already been here for a very long time, you just didn’t know about it

What people call “AI” is just Machine Learning.

Chatbots, OCR, Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, Computer Vision, Web Search, Spam filtering or Fraud detection, Personalized ADs, even your phone’s camera processing algorithm.

It’s all Machine Learning, but now under new and fancy “AI” name. And it’s been here for decades.

The reason it blew up this much only now is because people realized that the more data you feed into it, the better the output becomes. And so they started exploring it more, to the extent of causing valid ethical concerns.

Machine learning isn’t going anywhere. But it’s clear from the context here what we’re referring to when we say AI in this conversation.

Apparently, not to me. Explain.

Edit: Downvoting a person for asking clarification? Shame on you lot.

Here’s a starting-point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

Pointing to a wiki page instead of actually explaining stuff isn’t going to change my mind.

Now, if you’re talking specifically about LLMs, however (which you could’ve just said so, ffs). I think their scope of application and resources wasted on them will be significantly reduced. Look at what happened to blockchains and NFT. Basically, I expect the same to happen here.

Nobody is trying to change your mind. You’re just immune to context clues lol

So, instead of helping me out when I ask, you choose shaming?

If you just wanted to bitch about AI instead of having a proper conversation, you could’ve just said so.

The conversation we’re having doesn’t involve the place of irrelevance you’re trying to pull it to.

It’s not bitching about AI, it’s a conversation that’s different from the one that you’re trying to have.

I’m not trying to shame you, I’m just letting you know that the weird semantic sidebar you’re trying to start is irrelevant to what’s being discussed. We don’t have to stop what we’re doing and explain this to you just because you’re demanding it.