Unpopular opinion and I expect there will be a lot of pushback on it, but what's a good (polite) debate if not enlightening?
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@JustinMac84 Lol come on now, businesses supply whatever to people all the time and how hard is it to get help with whatever it is when all the people you talk to are just people working there for work experience or something? We've probably all seen it. No excuse but you know it's true.
@Onj Yes it's hard, because paying skilled people that are actually encouraged to want to talk to people eats into profit margins and tech companies don't want to talk to people. But that's a systemic, a logistical problem. A company with good customer service and/or enough complaints/risk to brand, will have skilled people to fix the problem efficiently. I don't think the answer or argument is the bar is low so let's make it lower.
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@Onj would you still pass on the magic 8-ball solution?
I'm sorry you feel that these arguments are an attempt to point score. They are not. In fact, your post is very topical. there is an article, just today, doing the rounds about Amazon having a high level meeting about a spate of outages affecting its business due to AI coding. A trillion dollar company is suffering because of this.
@JustinMac84 And that's on them. If those higherups are too stupid to properly test, that is a they problem. I can only speak for myself but I spend hours, sometimes days after getting a thing made, testing to the very best of my ability and I always ask my, as you put it, 'stochastic parrot' to write out a document detailing all steps.
I'm even more than happy to share the chats I have with it, I hide nothing.
I'm not doing this seriously, more for fun and that's it.
I'm just so tired of the massive amount of negativity around a thing. If one lives life like that, I pity them. I can't do it.
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@JustinMac84 And that's on them. If those higherups are too stupid to properly test, that is a they problem. I can only speak for myself but I spend hours, sometimes days after getting a thing made, testing to the very best of my ability and I always ask my, as you put it, 'stochastic parrot' to write out a document detailing all steps.
I'm even more than happy to share the chats I have with it, I hide nothing.
I'm not doing this seriously, more for fun and that's it.
I'm just so tired of the massive amount of negativity around a thing. If one lives life like that, I pity them. I can't do it.
There's more to life than hate, than sadness, than negative vibes.@JustinMac84 You're not even wrong, because clearly you've done all the reading, read all the bad press, and it vindicates your own bias about it (which goes back to my post in itself) and that's absolutely your choice to make. I'm not going to change your mind. I just think it's sad that before we can enjoy a new technology, we have to crap all over it first. It happens in all sectors when a new thing comes on the scene.
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@JustinMac84 You're not even wrong, because clearly you've done all the reading, read all the bad press, and it vindicates your own bias about it (which goes back to my post in itself) and that's absolutely your choice to make. I'm not going to change your mind. I just think it's sad that before we can enjoy a new technology, we have to crap all over it first. It happens in all sectors when a new thing comes on the scene.
@Onj It's all about acceptable risk. If you and your circle are happy within the software that AI can produce, that's great. A business footing is different and I myself, if producing a marketable product would be unhappy to feedback to a user saying, I don't know what's wrong, I can't repplicate your problem, my AI model has suggested this, it might work it might not. I would also be unhappy with that level of uncertainty and support as a user.
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@Onj It's all about acceptable risk. If you and your circle are happy within the software that AI can produce, that's great. A business footing is different and I myself, if producing a marketable product would be unhappy to feedback to a user saying, I don't know what's wrong, I can't repplicate your problem, my AI model has suggested this, it might work it might not. I would also be unhappy with that level of uncertainty and support as a user.
@JustinMac84 I've had people report back to me 'xyz' didn't work, I got it fixed. I'm just making addons though, not software to control military aircraft.
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@Onj It's all about acceptable risk. If you and your circle are happy within the software that AI can produce, that's great. A business footing is different and I myself, if producing a marketable product would be unhappy to feedback to a user saying, I don't know what's wrong, I can't repplicate your problem, my AI model has suggested this, it might work it might not. I would also be unhappy with that level of uncertainty and support as a user.
@JustinMac84 today I even heard that someone was using my addon to make money. Happy for them. Never thought that would be a thing but why not?
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@JustinMac84 You're not even wrong, because clearly you've done all the reading, read all the bad press, and it vindicates your own bias about it (which goes back to my post in itself) and that's absolutely your choice to make. I'm not going to change your mind. I just think it's sad that before we can enjoy a new technology, we have to crap all over it first. It happens in all sectors when a new thing comes on the scene.
@Onj Opposing tech for the sake of opposing tech is stupid. I would hesitate before describing a breadth of profound and, most importantly, substantiated concerns as negativity and hate though. I would argue that charging wrecklessly into the adoption of a technology, without considering all the ramifications is equally foolish. For me it's not about black and white no-one should use this stuff, it's about how the stuff is used.
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@JustinMac84 You're not even wrong, because clearly you've done all the reading, read all the bad press, and it vindicates your own bias about it (which goes back to my post in itself) and that's absolutely your choice to make. I'm not going to change your mind. I just think it's sad that before we can enjoy a new technology, we have to crap all over it first. It happens in all sectors when a new thing comes on the scene.
@Onj If Microsoft, a staunch proponent of AI itself is publishing studies demonstrating that AI causes cognitive atrophy, a reduction in critical thinking skills; if Amazon itself is falling over badly generated AI code; if the BBC is testing chat bots and noting sometimes a 50% failure rate; if proper programmers are noticing the cumulative and most importantly hidden errors AI coders are generating...
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@Onj Opposing tech for the sake of opposing tech is stupid. I would hesitate before describing a breadth of profound and, most importantly, substantiated concerns as negativity and hate though. I would argue that charging wrecklessly into the adoption of a technology, without considering all the ramifications is equally foolish. For me it's not about black and white no-one should use this stuff, it's about how the stuff is used.
@JustinMac84 Of course it is. If I made a thing, didn't even give it a single test and threw it out there and it killed someone's machine, that is terribly irresponsible. You haven't come up with a single good usecase so far though, your entire response to the thread has been:
Amazon screwed up, you could screw up, people are screwing up. your brand would suck if...That's putting problems and limits right at the door before you even step out of the house.
Me, I can't live that way. I think trying a thing and seeing if all it does is suck, is better than not knowing at all.
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@Onj If Microsoft, a staunch proponent of AI itself is publishing studies demonstrating that AI causes cognitive atrophy, a reduction in critical thinking skills; if Amazon itself is falling over badly generated AI code; if the BBC is testing chat bots and noting sometimes a 50% failure rate; if proper programmers are noticing the cumulative and most importantly hidden errors AI coders are generating...
@JustinMac84 I rest my case. You just made all my points for me right there.
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@JustinMac84 You're not even wrong, because clearly you've done all the reading, read all the bad press, and it vindicates your own bias about it (which goes back to my post in itself) and that's absolutely your choice to make. I'm not going to change your mind. I just think it's sad that before we can enjoy a new technology, we have to crap all over it first. It happens in all sectors when a new thing comes on the scene.
@Onj to say nothing of the implications for livelihoods and the environment, don't you thinkk that weight of evidence, already amassing when AI is so young, is worth listening to and being mindful of, rather than dismissing it as negativity and hate. The jaenie is out of the bottle now. It's never going away. wishing it so is pointless. Doesn't mean we have to accept the jaenie as is though. Doesn't mean we can't hold out for better.
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@Onj to say nothing of the implications for livelihoods and the environment, don't you thinkk that weight of evidence, already amassing when AI is so young, is worth listening to and being mindful of, rather than dismissing it as negativity and hate. The jaenie is out of the bottle now. It's never going away. wishing it so is pointless. Doesn't mean we have to accept the jaenie as is though. Doesn't mean we can't hold out for better.
@JustinMac84 You won't get better if we stop it in it's tracks. Remember the size of computers when we were young? Talk to your grandparents and ask them the size of computers back then. They had to start out like junk before they got down to the smaller than fingernail size we can produce now.
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@JustinMac84 I rest my case. You just made all my points for me right there.
@Onj that is missing the point of my argument. The issue is not that you might screw up. Bugs, with all the permutations, compatibility issues etc are absolutely and completely inevitable. It's not the screw-ups that worry me. It's how the screw-ups happened and how the screw-ups are dealt with, as appropriate, that concern me.
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@jakobrosin yep, and I have 0 problem with that. Transparency is key.
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@Onj that is missing the point of my argument. The issue is not that you might screw up. Bugs, with all the permutations, compatibility issues etc are absolutely and completely inevitable. It's not the screw-ups that worry me. It's how the screw-ups happened and how the screw-ups are dealt with, as appropriate, that concern me.
@JustinMac84 If you let it concern you. If people don't fix things they're putting out, if what they're putting out sucks so bad it hurts, kills people, don't go near it. ever. You're absolutely not wrong for that.
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@JustinMac84 You won't get better if we stop it in it's tracks. Remember the size of computers when we were young? Talk to your grandparents and ask them the size of computers back then. They had to start out like junk before they got down to the smaller than fingernail size we can produce now.
New things have to suck before they don't.
Old things learnt how not to suck by sucking in the beginning.@Onj But again, you're over-simplifying my argument. No-one said anything about stopping anything in its tracks. I believe I was quite clear that AI isn't going away, nor should it. Carrying on regardless, "yes there are a bunch of nay-sayers and we're already seeing the ways things are going wrong and people losing their jobs etc, but fuck it, they're just pooping the party, bunch of miseries,"
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@JustinMac84 You won't get better if we stop it in it's tracks. Remember the size of computers when we were young? Talk to your grandparents and ask them the size of computers back then. They had to start out like junk before they got down to the smaller than fingernail size we can produce now.
New things have to suck before they don't.
Old things learnt how not to suck by sucking in the beginning.@Onj or stop everything, ban AI forever, don't have to be the only options. We could appropriate regulate, investigate, move more slowly and get a healthy AI with a more significant net benefit.
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@Onj But again, you're over-simplifying my argument. No-one said anything about stopping anything in its tracks. I believe I was quite clear that AI isn't going away, nor should it. Carrying on regardless, "yes there are a bunch of nay-sayers and we're already seeing the ways things are going wrong and people losing their jobs etc, but fuck it, they're just pooping the party, bunch of miseries,"
@JustinMac84 I'm not oversimplifying anything, I'm stating a fact. You're taking it as a personal slight. The 'You' in my statement is not personally directed, it is just a thing.
I also agree with your last post, so that could hardly be oversimplifying could it?
Ethical AI is important.
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@JustinMac84 I'm not oversimplifying anything, I'm stating a fact. You're taking it as a personal slight. The 'You' in my statement is not personally directed, it is just a thing.
I also agree with your last post, so that could hardly be oversimplifying could it?
Ethical AI is important.
Stuff that is going to be used to kill people, autonomous robots controled by AI, that is not your friend or anybody's friend. WE need to push for that to be banned and quickly.@Onj I assumed your propenultimate post was a response to my argument. I don't feel slighted, just want you to understand that I regard banning all ai ever as impractical, unworkable and not necessarily beneficial. I do however feel that we are adopting it at a wreckless pace and that things like cognitive atrophy; accute job loss; inaccurate decisions, information and unreliable products; environmental destruction
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@JustinMac84 I'm not oversimplifying anything, I'm stating a fact. You're taking it as a personal slight. The 'You' in my statement is not personally directed, it is just a thing.
I also agree with your last post, so that could hardly be oversimplifying could it?
Ethical AI is important.
Stuff that is going to be used to kill people, autonomous robots controled by AI, that is not your friend or anybody's friend. WE need to push for that to be banned and quickly.@Onj and people being forced to bear the cost of data centres etc, worrying about these things is not negativity or hate, it is common, rational sense.
