Another smarter human pointed this out and it stuck with me: the guys most hyped about AI are good at nothing and thus can’t see how bad it is at everything. It’s like the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
That’s exactly the problem. People who are too stupid to see that AI is actually pretty bad at everything it does think its a fucking genius and they wonder why we still pay people to do stuff. Sadly a LOT of stupid people are in positions of authority in our world.
Even I wasn’t that dumb. This is because when I first started using the internet for actual reading I knew that websites would always be going down and some exist for only brief periods of time. While this is no longer the case for major sites, that mindset never left me. The internet can forget at times.
The headline gets the major point across. LLMs are like taking the whole web as an analog image and lossily digitizing it: you can make out the general shape, but there might be missed details or compression artifacts. Asking an LLM is, in effect, googling your question using a more natural language… but instead of getting source material or memes back as a result, you get a lossy version of those sources and it’s random by design, so ‘how do I fix this bug?’ could result in ‘rm -rf’ one time, and something that looks like an actual fix the next.
Gamers’ Nexus just did a piece about how youtube’s ai summaries could be manipulative. While I think that is a possibility and the risk is real, go look at how many times elmo has said he’ll fix grok for real this time; but another big takeaway was how bad LLMs still are at numbers or tokens that have data encoded in them: There was a segment where Steve called out the inconsistent model names, and how the ai would mistake a 9070 for a 970, etc, or make up it’s own models.
Just like googling a question might give you a troll answer, querying an ai might give you a regurgitated, low-res troll answer. ew.
It’s funny that they can never give actual concrete reasons to use it, just “it’s the future” or “you’re gonna get left behind” but they never back those up
Meanwhile, my mom’s boyfriend is begging me to use AI for code, art, everything, because “it’s the future”.
Another smarter human pointed this out and it stuck with me: the guys most hyped about AI are good at nothing and thus can’t see how bad it is at everything. It’s like the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
That’s exactly the problem. People who are too stupid to see that AI is actually pretty bad at everything it does think its a fucking genius and they wonder why we still pay people to do stuff. Sadly a LOT of stupid people are in positions of authority in our world.
Also: Dunning-Kruger
You can tell him to fuck off.
He’s not your real dad!
Is he caught in the washing machine again?
Fucking high school teachers are teaching this.
And somehow making the next generation even dumber.
Its the next level of: “I don’t need to remember things because Google can tell me.”
Even I wasn’t that dumb. This is because when I first started using the internet for actual reading I knew that websites would always be going down and some exist for only brief periods of time. While this is no longer the case for major sites, that mindset never left me. The internet can forget at times.
I tripped over this awesome analogy that I feel compelled to share. “[AI/LLMs are] a blurry JPEG of the web”.
This video pointed me to this article (paywalled)
The headline gets the major point across. LLMs are like taking the whole web as an analog image and lossily digitizing it: you can make out the general shape, but there might be missed details or compression artifacts. Asking an LLM is, in effect, googling your question using a more natural language… but instead of getting source material or memes back as a result, you get a lossy version of those sources and it’s random by design, so ‘how do I fix this bug?’ could result in ‘rm -rf’ one time, and something that looks like an actual fix the next.
Gamers’ Nexus just did a piece about how youtube’s ai summaries could be manipulative. While I think that is a possibility and the risk is real, go look at how many times elmo has said he’ll fix grok for real this time; but another big takeaway was how bad LLMs still are at numbers or tokens that have data encoded in them: There was a segment where Steve called out the inconsistent model names, and how the ai would mistake a 9070 for a 970, etc, or make up it’s own models.
Just like googling a question might give you a troll answer, querying an ai might give you a regurgitated, low-res troll answer. ew.
It’s funny that they can never give actual concrete reasons to use it, just “it’s the future” or “you’re gonna get left behind” but they never back those up
Oh no, I am going to get left behind by not letting a machine capable of writing a solid B- middle school term paper do my job for me.