With respect (or disrespect) to LLMs: Nearly all AI gets its training data in unethical ways. It’s results are unreliable and require careful validation.
There are other types of specialized AI that can do other kinds of tasks well. It is good at certain kinds of medical diagnosis (in combination with human doctors). It can solve some problems that involve lots of complex iteration, like how to fold proteins, create new molecules, or assemble structures. There are a lot of potential uses.
Artificial or not, there’s still no actual “intelligence.” The answers from it are notoriously unreliable, and I don’t think that can ever truly change until there’s actual intelligence behind those answers.
Because:
- I’m not a lazy, smooth-brained rube.
- I’m not in the business of selling AI to lazy, smooth-brained rubes
- I have no stake in the supply chain nor do I stand to profit from those selling AI to lazy, smooth-brained rubes.
Furthermore:
- I don’t trust “AI”. If I’m going to have to fact check it anyway, might as well just do it myself and earn the damn knowledge.
- AI does not work for me (or you). It works for the companies who are forcing it on you and sucking up your data.
- The energy costs and water requirements are mindbogglingly staggering
- I refuse to feed or ride any hype train
- It’s creating scarcity of things that could be put to better use (energy, water, computer components, land, talent, you name it).
- It’s not even AI. It’s just a dead-end bullshit generator
I am but but still try to avoid it.
…I think its important to keep ‘machine learning as a neat tool’ distinct from cultish ‘AI’ futurology. Hence some folks might interpret this questions as “why aren’t you using AI yet, bro!? AGI’s inevitable, get on board!” The latter is what a lot of news/advertising is blasting.
Transhumanism could actually be considered a legit cult. So could cryptobrooism i suppose but that would be stretching the definition a bit.
Transhumanism is cool though! I adore the OA universe, for example: https://www.orionsarm.com/xcms.php?r=oaeg-front
Cults don’t have to be bad. vOv
I like having a soul and personality
Better question:
Why would you want to use them?I can’t state it any better than The Oatmeal. . . https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
First, what do you consider AI?
Algorithms tweaked by ML for a very specific, narrowly scoped task? I have very different feelings on those vs. something like what the tech giants try to insert into every interaction I have with them.
It gives you donkeybrains.
I’ll use it when it makes sense.
Once I searched for a solution to an obscure problem and the AI summary provided the solution that was not in the top 5 or so results.
Other times it’s just an incoherent rambling mess of auto generated stuff intended to make me click.
For what reason ? To ask it how to pronounce cote in French and English ?
No reason to, no need to. It really doesn’t enhance my life in any way so what’s the point.
I jerk off manually.
Tried it, can’t find a practical use for it.
Closest I got was as a thesaurus, but an actual thesaurus is faster and more comprehensive.
I don’t need it or want to.
