If there's anything I've learned about software, "intelligent" usually means "we've thrown a lot of intelligent people at the problem, and made the solution even more complicated".
Machine learning is not software, but probably should be approached as such. It's a program that takes some input and transforms it into some output. But I suppose if society really cared about physical or mental health, we wouldn't have had cigarettes or slot machines.
When thinking through a claim of what AI can do, you can do the same. “AI” -> “just some guy”. If that doesn’t feel fair, try “AI” -> “some well-read, eager-to-please intern”.
Sure let's call the AI names, behind its back and to its face if we're feeling particularly bold, but is that actually going to amount to anything?
Considering the state of today's social media landscape and people's relationship to it, this fills me with dread.
Hopefully it doesn't take 2 decades of AI usage to have that conversation tho.
I'm not sure if this is supposed to be ironic but it gave me a good chuckle nonetheless.
There's also a lot of talk about drinking more moderately down at my local bar.
Fwiw I'm seeing a lot of people on social media talking about drinking less too. So I had to unfollow them.
It's such a great tool for learning, double checking your work, figuring out syntax or console commands, writing one-off bash scripts etc.
I wonder if some of the disconnect between the AI coding fans and skeptics is just the language they're writing.