Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence?
Tyrangle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is like saying that automobiles are overhyped because they can’t drive themselves. When I code up a new algorithm at work, I’m spending an hour or two whiteboarding my ideas, then the rest of the day coding it up. AI can’t design the algorithm for me, but if I can describe it in English, it can do the tedious work of writing the code. If you’re just using AI as a Google replacement, you’re missing the bigger picture.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m retired. I don’t do all that stuff.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe look into the creativity side more and less ‘Google replacement’?
Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The hype machine said we could use it in place of search engines for intelligent search. Pure BS.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes. Far more useful to embrace its hallucinogenic qualities…
Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ll see if I can think of something creative to do. I was just reading an article from MIT that pointed out that one reason AI is bad at search is that it can’t determine whether a source is accurate. It can’t tell the difference between Reddit and Harvard.
FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Neither can most of reddit…
Tyrangle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A lot of people are doing work that can be automated in part by AI, and there’s a good chance that they’ll lose their jobs in the next few years if they can’t figure out how to incorporate it into their workflow. Some people are indeed out of the workforce or in industries that are safe from AI, but that doesn’t invalidate the hype for the rest of us.