I’ve tried several types of artificial intelligence including Gemini, Microsoft co-pilot, chat GPT. A lot of the times I ask them questions and they get everything wrong. If artificial intelligence doesn’t work why are they trying to make us all use it?
Cause it’s cool
Not to me. If you like it, that’s fine.
Perhaps your personal bias is cluding your judgement a bit here. You don’t seem very open minded about it. You’ve already made up your mind.
Probably but I’m far from the only one.
Robots don’t demand things like “fair wages” or “rights”. It’s way cheaper for a corporation to, for example, use a plagiarizing artificial unintelligence to make images for something, as opposed to commissioning a human artist who most likely will demand some amount of payment for their work.
Also I think that it’s partially caused by people going “ooh, new thing!” without stopping to think about the consequences of this technology or if it is actually useful.
Like was said: money.
In addition, they need training data. Both conversations and raw material. Shoving “AI” into everything whether you want it or not gives them the real world conversational data to train on. If you feed it any documents, etc it’s also sucking that up for the raw data to train on.
Ultimately the best we can do is ignore it and refuse to use it or feed it garbage data so it chokes on its own excrement.
That works for me. I’ll just ignore it to spare my sanity
Rich assholes have spent a ton of money on it and they need to manufacture reasons why that wasn’t a waste.
Money. If you paid to use those services, they got what they wanted.
“Line must go up.”
Summed up an MBA in four words.
“Be greedy” => there, did it in two:-P
It is so sad that it works too - no room for nuance, responsibility, even long-term stability (even for the entire human species, + all other mammals on Earth & many others too that we seem ready to take down with us on our way to extinction).
Money.
That’s the entirety of the reason.
The hype is also artificial and usually created by the creators of the AI. They want investors to give them boatloads of cash so they can cheaply grab a potential market they believe exists before they jack up prices and make shit worse once that investment money dries up. The problem is, nobody actually wants this AI garbage they’re pushing.
Who’s making you use it?
It’s useful for lots of things, but it requires a proof reader.
I try to do a search on Chrome and Gemini pops up and start spewing its BS. I go into messages and I try to send a message and gemini pops up and asks me if it wants to send a message for me. No I know how to write my own stupid messages. It’s all integrated into Windows 11, Is integrated into the Bing app. It’s like swatting flies trying to get rid of it.
Move to linux use self hosted foss alternatives. Regain ownership of your digital existance. Stop being a slave to the big tech machine.
Computer? What could this strange device be? Another toy that helped destroy the elder race of man?
I only have a phone
Damn u can rent a vps and ssh from ur phone?
A what now with a thingy?
Ye the flumberboozle
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automation by companies so they can "streamline"their workforces.
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innovation by “teaching” it enough to solve bigger problems (cancer, climate, etc).
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creating a sentient species that is the next evolution of life and watching it systematically eradicate every last human to save the planet.
Terminator was also a documentary
Skynet for the win!
Come with me if you want to live!
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Because if you can get a program to write a program, that can both a) write it self, and b) improve upon the program in some way, you can put together a feedback where exponential improvement is possible.
I’ve wondered if you could do that until it makes a perfect machine.
First I recommend at least reading the wikipedia on super-intelligence.
Second, I recommend playing this game: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
The idea is that it can replace a lot of customer facing positions that are manpower intensive.
Beyond that, an AI can also act as an intern in assisting in low complexity tasks the same way that a lot of Microsoft Office programs have replaced secretaries and junior human calculators.
I’ve always figured part of it Is that businesses don’t like to pay labor and they’re hoping that they can use artificial intelligence to get rid of the rest of us so they don’t have to pay us.
Ignoring AI as he is like ignoring Spreadsheets as hype. “I can do everything with a pocket calculator! I don’t need stupid auto fill!”
AI doesn’t replace people. It can automate and reduce your workload leaving you more time to solve problems.
I’ve used it for one off scripts. I have friends who have done the same and another friend who used it to create the boilerplate for a government contact bid that he won (millions in revenue for his company of which he got tens of thousands in bonus as engineering sales support).
I’ll just toss in another answer nobody has mentioned yet:
Terminator and Matrix movies were really, really popular. This sort of seeded the idea of it being a sort of inevitable future into the brains of the mainstream population.
The Matrix was a documentary
A dumb person thinks AI is really smart, because they just listen to anyone that answers confidentially
And no matter what, AI is going to give its answer like it’s is 100% definitely the truth.
That’s why there’s such a large crossover with AI and crypto, the same people fall for everything.
There’s new supporting evidence for Penrose’s theory that natural intelligence involves just an absolute shit ton of quantum interactions, because we just found out how the body can create an environment where quantom super position can not only be achieved, but incredibly simply.
AI got a boost because we didn’t really (still dont) understand consciousness. Tech bro’s convinced investors that neurons were what mattered, and made predictions for when that amount of neurons can be simulated.
But if it include billions of molecules in quantum superposition, we’re not getting there in our lifetimes. But there’s a lot of money sunk in to it already, so there’s a lot of money to lose if people suddenly get realistic about what it takes to make a real artificial intelligence.
So they’re using the sunk cost logical fallacy? Gee that’s intelligent.
The microtubules creating an environment that can sustain quantum super position just came out like a month ago.
In all honesty the tech bros probably don’t even know yet, or understands it means human level AI speculation has essentially been disproven as happening anytime remotely soon.
But I’m assuming when they do, they’ll just ignore it and double down to maintain share prices.
It’s also possible it all crashes and billions of dollars disappear.
Microtubules have been pushed for decades without any proof. The latest paper wasn’t evidence but unsupported speculation.
But more importantly the physics of computation that creates intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with understanding intelligence. Even if quantum effects are relevant ( which is extremely unlikely given the warm and moving environment inside the brain), it doesn’t answer anything about how humans are intelligent.
Penrose used Quantum Mechanics as a “God in the Gaps” explanation. That worked 40 years ago but today we have working quantum computers but no human intelligence.
That’s why there’s such a large crossover with AI and crypto, the same people fall for everything.
There’s a large overlap, but some people that did not fall for crypto may fall for AI.
Always never not be hustling, I suppose.
You have asked why there is so much hype around artifical intelligence.
There are a few reasons this might be the case:
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Because humans are curious. Experimenting with how humans believe memory and intelligence work might just lead them to find out something about their own intelligence.
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Because humans are stupid. Most do not have the slightest idea what „AI“ is this time, yet they are willing to believe in the most outlandish claims about it. Look up ELIZA. It fooled a lot of people, just like LLMs today.
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Because humans are greedy. And the prospect of replacing a lot of wage-earners, and not just manual laborers this time, with a machine is just too good to pass up for management. The potential savings are huge, if it works, so the willingness to spend money is also considerable.
In conclusion, there are many reasons for the hype around artificial intelligence and most of them relate to human deficiencies and human nature in general.
If you have further questions I am happy to help. Enjoy your experience with AI. While you still can. 🤖
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Investors are dumb. It’s a hot new tech that looks convincing (since LLMs are designed specifically to appear correct, not be correct), so anything with that buzzword gets a ton of money thrown at it. The same phenomenon has occurred with blockchain, big data, even the World Wide Web. After each bubble bursts, some residue remains that actually might have some value.
I can see that. That guy over there has the new shiny toy. I want a new shiny toy. Give me a new shiny toy.
And LLM is mostly for investors, not for users. Investors see you “do AI” even if you just repackage GPT or llama, and your Series A is 20% bigger.
It depends on the task you give it and the instructions you provide. I wrote this a while back i find it gives a 10x in capability especially if u use a non aligned llm like dolphin 8x22b.
I have no idea what any of that means. But thanks for the reply.
