For new followers: As long as I’ve worked in tech, I’ve written about technology I think is cool and the potential impacts if misused. Social media gives everyone a voice and the ability to build community but that means terrible people can also do so.
AI gives you close to or superior to human level intelligence in your pocket. On the flip side, society has no strategy to deal with the decimation of white collar jobs or how to handle people becoming dependent on AI in a variety of ways.
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"AI gives you close to or superior to human level intelligence in your pocket" but gpt5 will insist there are 3 b's in blueberry.
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@farlukar@mas.to @kjhealy@mastodon.social Finding the constantly diminishing set of edge cases that generative AI handles poorly does not negate my statement.
I remember when people use to joke about six fingered AI generated images and now Google Veo can generate video nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
Pointing out what AI models do poorly today doesn’t negate the value of what they do well today.
@carnage4life@mas.to @farlukar@mas.to @kjhealy@mastodon.social It demonstrates that ANN's do not "understand" anything. That doesn't mean they can't be useful tools, but they are not intelligent. Between the hype and the pushback to the hype, there is a lot of noise drowning out evaluations of the technology. There are some tasks it can do well, and on most it does poorly.
@weyoun6@kolektiva.social @carnage4life@mas.to @farlukar@mas.to @kjhealy@mastodon.social This thread is missing what AI _does._ It is a probability engine. That is how it works: it puts together the next most probable thing. It's not actually 'learning' anything. Books written with AI lack continuity for this very reason. If 6 fingered hands go away, it's only because this special case was addressed not to happen. Engineers learned. AI did not.
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