The AI hype machine vs. reality

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[stavanzer]

AI is one last Gigantic Tech Bro Scam, before the whole business crashes. I'm not saying there will be no AI, and that it cannot do some things, but so far all it can really do is write barely usable code, and provide emotional support for two generations of emotionally damaged young people.

It makes things up, it hides it's own malfeasance, and lies when directly questioned.

It was, and always has been a very bad idea, but folks who's belief in Technology is unshakeable, cannot be made to see how much damage AI can do.

So, in their blindness they press on, lying to both themselves and us about what a Wonderful Thing AI is, and what Wonderful Things it can do. 

[Mark]

3 hours ago, stavanzer said:

 

It makes things up, it hides it's own malfeasance, and lies when directly questioned.

 

Not unlike some people I have worked with, and for, in the past.  Who says AI isn't becoming more human?

[imarriedawitch]

4 hours ago, stavanzer said:

 

It makes things up, it hides it's own malfeasance, and lies when directly questioned.

 

Sounds eerily familiar.

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 hours ago, imarriedawitch said:

Sounds eerily familiar.

Yeah. I know exactly what you mean.

 

[Bugatti Fan]

'Looks like there's a storm coming.'       Quote....Old man at filling station in closing scene of the Terminator.

    

[espo]

Another "Smoke and mirrors" scheme.   

[meechum68]

I have several I work with that loves AI!  I am like.. yeah you gonna get burned, and then blame them instead of yourself for using terrible coded barely usable product. 

 

[Russell C]

Just learned today of an outfit that uses "AI" to somehow record really long, boring court- or state administrative-style hearings and turn the transcripts into nice short summaries. A guy I know who's somewhat famous across the country for offering technical expertise alerted me to this, where in a particular public hearing the summary described him and what his expertise is all about.  Except the guy was never at the hearing.  Period.  The "AI" that was used to summarize this hearing was guessing who the expert attendees were, and not in a good way.

[Ace-Garageguy]

8 hours ago, Russell C said:

Just learned today of an outfit that uses "AI" to somehow record really long, boring court- or state administrative-style hearings and turn the transcripts into nice short summaries. A guy I know who's somewhat famous across the country for offering technical expertise alerted me to this, where in a particular public hearing the summary described him and what his expertise is all about.  Except the guy was never at the hearing.  Period.  The "AI" that was used to summarize this hearing was guessing who the expert attendees were, and not in a good way.

That bites. It's common knowledge (at least within the AI community) that AI lies and makes things up (which they oh-so-cutely call "hallucinating"), and that because as yet most AI models have little comprehension of context, it's prone to scrambling information and producing worthless incorrect results...but seeming very confident about it.

Anyone who's even remotely aware knows that every time a piece of software is rolled out, it's continually updated and patched due to undiscovered bugs that were in it when it shipped. But selling flawed, sometimes deeply flawed, product is SOP for the "information technology" marketplace and others, including a similarly disturbing tendency in the pharmaceutical and automotive industries.

They all blame each other essentially, on "market pressure", which actually means that "if we don't get our poorly functioning garbage to market quick, some other bunch of clowns will get their poorly functioning garbage to market before we do, and we'll lose sales from the gullible rubes who bought the other junk product instead of ours...so we don't have time to get it right; we'll just fix things on the fly as they come up, and hope for the best".

It amazes me that embracing early, widespread implementation of any technology that has the potential to do as much harm as AI would be the action of anyone with a brain, but one of the flaws in human nature is getting in an anxiety-driven rush, when proceeding slowly and cautiously would be the much more prudent course.

AI has fantastic potential, but it's a work in progress at best, and relying on it for anything critical at this point in time is simply foolish.

It's a whole lot HARDER to save little Timmy AFTER he's fallen through the ice, and is being swept away underneath it by a strong current.

 

Edited 49 minutes ago by Ace-Garageguy