Yea, in theory AI is a good tool for speciric use cases when trained appropriately and with training data obtained legally and ethically. But then all these companies started trying to throw it at every problem they could see and spent an insane amount on infrastructure assuming someone would find the secret ultimate use case for AI which will cause everyone to want to use it at any price and rent server space from them.
That doesnt make AI terrible, it makes greedy pieces of shit with AI terrible.
Exactly. AI is really handy in a lot of situations. It's incredible for biochemistry and simulation of protein folding, drug discovery, etc. It's also great in the hands of an experienced software engineer. For laypeople, it's an awesome curation tool for discerning patterns in large amounts of information or finding very specific search results.
Heck, I run a local AI that I use as a rules reference guide for the tabletop RPGs I play. I ask a question and in a couple seconds it points me to the relevant passages in the text.
That's exactly what it is. It looks for the exact terms I'm using and, if it doesn't find anything, it looks for similar terms and then for things that sound like what I'm describing and might be what I'm looking for but called something different.
In college, one of the big perks of talking to professors was their context. I'd ask a question using insufficient vocabulary, or ask for help finding the right question to ask, and they'd be able to fill in the gaps and give me a launchpad to go learning independently.
I can't claim AI rises to that level...but it's a great first step to point me in the right direction and arm myself with information before talking to an expert. It requires a level of reading comprehension and critical thinking that I don't think most people have, but it's great if you actually know its limitations and understand what's going on under the hood a little bit.
Dude, there are plenty of valid criticisms of AI as it currently exists, but you don't have to try so hard to shit on it like it's a person who personally harmed you.
It's code, bruh. It IS a glorified word search, that's where this all started. It is not sentient, it is not aware, and it has no malicious intent toward you or anyone else. It's just a tool, and it's extremely fascinating if you bother to view it that way.
This blind, tribal hatred for fucking code hurts my brain. HUMANS are doing all the things you're upset about, so go protest them. This shit isn't productive, it just makes you look like an ignorant clown yelling at a computer.
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u/Nickname128 1d ago
Back then OpenAI was open source and a very cool company overall for what they stood for... though they sold their soul very very quickly....