so what dumb AI shit shall i write about today?
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AI Tools Gave False Information About Tsunami Advisories
From Slashdot:
https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/02/1645254/ai-tools-gave-false-information-about-tsunami-advisories
Bad AI being used badly
@davidgerard I haven't gone looking (because I have the skills to write my own) but I have had newbie/junior staff tell me they've used "AI" to craft SQL for them.
So far it's been the same kind of won't-work or will-give-wrong results script that this type of person always writes - and that I have to fix/re-teach.
But, while I see lots of guff about generation of "programming" code, I've not seen claims about SQL generation.
So, are there claims I perhaps should know about?
@davidgerard Perhaps the utter disconnect in regards to both incentives and expectations between rulers (c-suite, activist investors, etc) and underlings (people with any kind of technical knowledge, teachers, programmers, etc).
@davidgerard Maybe the claim that anyone working remotely full time can be replaced by AI? https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/why-am-i-here-canadians-question-office-return-mandates/
@davidgerard The Mensa magazine [1] had a two-page article by a true believer - want a copy?
[1] a parent bought a life membership in the 60s or so.
@denisbloodnok oh dear, plz do email pics
@davidgerard Done. If Gmail eats them LMK and I'll just slap them up somewhere on the Web.
@davidgerard Eat them, or let you see them?
@denisbloodnok it ate them sadly
@davidgerard How about the "3 million agents" that have been created on Microsoft's cloud in the past year, according to their FY25 Q4 earnings call? Because in reality, the vast majority of the agents are like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpeOjtcA3VY
@davidgerard ... suckers who believe that prompt engineering is a real job ?!?
@davidgerard The Norwegian city of Narvik is gonna build a €1 billion AI center for OpenAI.
https://www.nrk.no/nordland/aker-har-signert-milliardavtale-om-bygging-av-ki-fabrikk-i-narvik-1.17511122
https://www.nrk.no/nordland/aker-har-signert-milliardavtale-om-bygging-av-ki-fabrikk-i-narvik-1.17511122
@davidgerard LLMChallenge by Unstract they use a second LLMs to "verify" the work of the first.
@davidgerard I saw an article about trust in AI coding tools dropping as usage increased.
@nopatience @davidgerard
I don't need a lecture on the future from the guy who burned billions on the metaverse and then dropped it like a hot potato.
@nopatience @davidgerard “I think in the future, if you don’t have glasses that have AI — or some way to interact with AI — I think you’re … probably [going to] be at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people,” Zuckerberg added.
This is so fucking funny to me. If I don’t outsource my thinking to a pair of glasses, I’m going to be at a cognitive disadvantage? One that evaporates as soon as I put the glasses on, right?
Because AI is so easy to use and time saving, according to them I’ll be able to pick it right up… It’s not like I need to attend a 2-year AI prompting bootcamp or something. Because it’s magic and conversational and knows all the answers for me! (/sarcasm, just in case)
So yeah, Zuck, I’ll just wait and then pop on the magic brain glasses the minute I witness myself being left behind. (I will never need to do this.)
@seekingfreedom @nopatience @davidgerard looking forward to my upcoming cognitive disadvantage (otherwise known as “aging” until the tech bros got a hold of it)
@seekingfreedom @nopatience @davidgerard: There seems to be this paradoxical mix of forced FOMO from the AI companies and an insistence that these "tools" can be picked up immediately.
@raktheundead @davidgerard @seekingfreedom @nopatience So true. I’m already lousy at delegating work to humans. I have no idea how I’d do it with a LLM.
@seekingfreedom @davidgerard
I always try and picture the person behind the words, what are they thinking, what are they envisioning?
What cognitive strap-on will be so powerful that not having it will feel as if you're 'cognitively disadvantaged'?
I would argue that you'll (eventually) be at such a massively cognitive disadvantage IF YOU WEAR them because it would appear as if you can stop thinking entirely...
... and exactly where the line should be drawn between AR and AI... not quite so sure how glasses will ... I don't know.
I look forward to learning how the population of earth will mentally decline because we're not wearing mansplainer tooling.
@nopatience @seekingfreedom today's prize winner thank you all!
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