Lo and behold

[yetzt@social.yetzt.me]

@beyondmachines1 the fabled planet killing rubber duck.

[64@mastodon.nz]

@austinross @ben @beyondmachines1 ffs they invented RDaaS

[stux@mstdn.social]

@beyondmachines1

[eviloatmeal@ak.angelstrapped.com]

@beyondmachines1 I'm going to sell them tokens to my new "low emissions agentic assistant".

[singletona@bitbang.social]

@beyondmachines1 Mock all you want, and a bit of it is earned.

Thing is. People don't naturally spend the energy to do deep thinking until they either have reason or structure. Using GPT as a rubber duck caused them to decide to spend the calories and 'oh wait. I didn't have to actually ask. solved it.'

[singletona@bitbang.social]

@theogrin @beyondmachines1

Bingo

[jakebrake@ohai.social]

@beyondmachines1

Maybe the real intelligence was the prompts we made along the way.

[wtl@mastodon.social]

@beyondmachines1 @renata

[mulbox@infosec.exchange]

@beyondmachines1 is this meta cognition?

[the5thcolumnist@ottawa.place]

@beyondmachines1

I do that too. i just leave out the ChatGPT part.

[kingfish1776@social.vivaldi.net]

@beyondmachines1

[lerxst@az.social]

@beyondmachines1 It's almost like clearly thinking about how to solve a problem is the hardest part!

[octaviaconamore@cutie.city]

@beyondmachines1 @ShaulaEvans just imagine how many rubber duckies they could have bought with the hundreds of billions dumped down the genAI sinkhole

[averagejoe@gardenstate.social]

@beyondmachines1 "A problem well-defined is a problem half-solved." - Charles Kettering

[oddhack@mstdn.social]

@beyondmachines1 presaged in "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" (1958).

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@beyondmachines1 in other words, "AI is often like a shitty IT contractor, but you have to realize the point at which explaining it takes more time and effort than just doing it yourself."

[bretzky@mastodon.social]

@beyondmachines1
Happened to me today

[scandigonian@pnw.zone]

@beyondmachines1
Holy sh!t
(shaking my head)

[acdingman@sandiegourbanists.com]

@beyondmachines1 so, the virtue of AI is that it can function as a shockingly expensive rubber duck?

I know that for now it's mostly paid for by someone else, but I've gotten several actual rubber ducks free at conferences.

[a_cubed@mastodon.social]

@beyondmachines1 @briankrebs
You know, instead of boiling the planet, they could just use a Rubber Duck!