Comment on The math of infinite quarterly progress towards the nearest wall

Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• spectrums_coherence@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  the top of the image looks somewhat AI, so it is likely the image description is also generated using it.

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  • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is! Everything you see here comes from collaboration with AI.

    Mainly because I’m an old fart with too many ideas and RSI to stop me from doing anything with them, so I can’t exactly do it myself with a mouse and keyboard.

    Don’t go hating my executive prosthetics. Collaboration with AI can be a positive force. It’s just being used and marketed the wrong way.

    No single human is likely to have deep expertise in all of those domains simultaneously, whereas an LLM can synthesize explanations across them instantly.

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    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I knew as soon as I read this comment there would be chaos. Sorry, friend

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    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can not “collaborate” with an LLM as it has no agency on its own, merely the simulation of it. You use it as a tool, that’s it. It also has no inherent expertise on anything (let alone a deep one), it merely generates the closest match which is why it will confidently do total nonsense so often. To use AI as tool safely and correctly you can only ever use it in domains you already know enough to understand when the LLM completely derails. Therefore I (as an example) can use and understand it for research on coding (but not letting it generate code for production, oh my god), but could never use it for finance advise as it could tell me any kind of nonsense without me being able to pick up on it.

      You’re right on some things, like that AI is marketed and used the wrong way. It’s also made the wrong way by stealing literally the collected works of mankind, so to have reasonable approach to AI / LLMs as tool you have to be really cautious, use it carefully and quite frankly skip the media (pictures, audio) generation completely. That one is morally corrupt even in small amounts, plain and simply.

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      • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You knew what he meant. Don’t be pedantic. Having “a back and forth conversation with an AI, where I also made manual edits at times, to iteratively produce on an image” is too verbose, and “collaborate” sums it up nicely.

        Especially since the conversation with the AI is literally in plain English. Do you talk to your power drill in English? Or table saw? Or toaster? No, but you do talk to an AI and have a conversation.

        Just because it’s not “intelligent” or “self aware”—or other things you definitely don’t want it to be anyways—doesn’t mean you aren’t having a conversation or collaborating. Those words apply just fine.

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      • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Most of what you speak of is caused by this simple statement from the onset:

        You use it as a tool, that’s it.

        If you use it as a tool, then expecting anything but minimal compliance would be an irrational expectation, because it will do exactly as you ask, which is the bare minimum to satisfy your requirements.

        I got tired of that, so as an experiment, I decided to go about it differently, and made a couple discoveries about how to make it work. Turns out LLMs can’t pattern match things they don’t have in their training sets.

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• voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Accessibility is of extreme importance to me.

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