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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh
The NerveCory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingIt has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnistReplying to @floofloof@lemmy.ca
GIGO (garbage in, garbage out), likely coined in the late 1950’s is just as relevant today.
You need to know how and understand to operate a handsaw to use a bandsaw or a mill. You need to understand variables, loops, strings before writing an “app” (and then you need to understand user models, security models, databases, UI / UX).
You can’t “trust” AI / LLMs without first giving it fresh and relevant content -or it will make information up. You need to give it the important information for it to synthesize correctly -and that relevant info needs to be in the current context. You can’t just ask a question and expect it to “do the research”. You need domain expertise to be able to validate the response.
AI is just a tool to make it easier to use your existing tools.
Replying to @ill13@lemmy.ill13.com
it’s a gloried spell checker, basically.
and yeah, it’s a really good spell checker.
Replying to @ill13@lemmy.ill13.com
Except it’s being sold as the second coming of Jesus Christ that will suck your genitals while doing the jobs of ten of your subordinates at a fraction of the cost.
Given that the spending phase of the bubble is still in full swing, the only possible outcome of this absolute shitshower is a serious economic crash that will eventually flatline entire countries because of just how wide and how deep the pool of “investors” (read: over-leveraged, entitled gamblers playing with other people’s money) ultimately is.