AI is fantastic.
It’s what it’s being used for that fucking sucks.
I love reading about shit like “LLMs help scientists develop new pattern-seeking behaviors and theories” and shit. Fucking hate when I see AI art or places trying to ‘streamline’ their processes with half-assed AI assistance.
This. I was a phd seeking cybersecurity researcher leaning heavily into AI up until last year, and it bothered me to no end that some of the most promising technology I have ever seen was being primarily used to enhance the police state or increase BP profits by a few %. AI is literally a step towards a utopian post scarcity future, but instead of being used that way it was immediately weaponized against the working class for the benefit of the parasite class.
The mad “gold rush” mentality towards AGI is nerve-racking. I’m reminded of Protogen’s attitude towards the Protomolecule in The Expanse.
I figured we still had 5-ish years to figure it out, but the rapid progress against HLE (Humanity’s Last Exam) makes me nervous.
But sure, let’s just rush headlong towards the precipice, how hard can alignment be really? My anxiety about the future and the importance of getting this right are not eased by people scoffing because “just count the fingers!” When the field is changing so fast, looking at what was going on a few years ago isn’t helpful.
Well, past my pay grade.
I don’t understand what this has to do with a PhD in cyber security but I do agree with what you said though
It gives people context for what kind of ai math I’m familiar with/formed my opinions about ai on (ie, generally lightweight transformer models rather than LLMs), as well as a small logos appeal of “hey I spent years of my life researching that shit, I at least kinda know what I’m talking about”
Yep. Automation, machine learning etc should be used to get rid of bullshit jobs so that people have more time to invest in art and stuff. Instead, “AI” is used to get rid of artists so more people work bullshit jobs.
But at the same time, there are some great fucking uses for machine learning. For example, my father’s an anesthesia nurse and told me, at his hospital doctors use it to analyze imaging results like MRI and CT. A technician controls the results but a trained tech needs so much less time for that than to analyze the images AND the machine analysis actually misses fewer details and are more precise than humans.
But “AI art” is still cancer.
More accurate meme:
It’s not either. Those things companies are trying to sell you out there and CEOs are ordering you to use unambiguously suck.
I like the steak sauce
Lol no. If you don’t know how to use a computer or a hammer, you don’t say “computers suck” or “hammers suck”, you buckle up and learn how to use them or pay someone to use it for you, or wait enough so it is dumbed down enough for you to use it.
This is basically the boomer equivalent of a Luddite reasoning LMAO 🤣
Skill issue + git gud
How’s that elmers glue on your pizza tasting? I’m sure all the artists that had their work stolen to feed the machine will get compensation aaaany day now.
Way to champion slop, real pro gamer move.
