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satai ,

I work in tech (and have a Bc in IT and Masters in Theoretical Bio) and… I absolutely don’t know.

soundingcock ,

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I_Clean_Here ,

Who of you fuckers actually read this article and went not like “duh yeah let’s upvote this dumbass clickbait headline”

MeanEYE ,
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Of course, because hype didn’t come from tech people, but content writers, designers, PR people, etc. who all thought they didn’t need tech people anymore. The moment ChatGPT started being popular I started getting debugging requests from few designers. They went there and asked it to write a plugin or a script they needed. Only problem was it didn’t really work like it should. Debugging that code was a nightmare.

I’ve seen few clever uses. Couple of our clients made a “chat bot” whose reference was their poorly written documentation. So you’d ask a bot something technical related to that documentation and it would decipher the mess. I still claim making a better documentation was a smarter move, but what do I know.

DeathWearsANecktie ,

The best use I’ve found for AI is getting it to write me covering letters for job applications. Even then I still need to make a few small adjustments. But it saves a bit of time and typing effort.

Other than that, I just have fun with it making stupid images and funny stories based on inside jokes.

fosforus ,

Over half of all tech industry workes don’t know how to use AI, I guess? I’m sure there’s some percentage of people whose jobs are advanced enough that AI will not help there, but I bet my kidney that it’s not more than half.

10-20 years ago boomers scoffed at people who used Google instead of reading manuals or figuring it out by themselves.

danque ,
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It’s not the magic that all people think it is. They even warn you that the facts might not be true facts.

jacktherippah ,

The other day ChatGPT contradicted itself in the same sentence so yeah, they’re right

Dominik ,

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    MeanEYE ,
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    Quite the opposite. People who understand how LLMs work know their limitations. And AI in general is incapable deduction and creativity. It simply is not able to produce something new by using existing knowledge. Sure it can generate a number of outputs through some transformations of input data. But not create.

    If you think developers, engineers, architects and others are going to lose their jobs you are severely mistaken. Even for content writers it’s a temporary setback because AI generated content is just limited and as soon as quality of human input to same AI starts dropping in quality so will AI’s output.

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    MeanEYE ,
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    It’s a tool that you have to babysit, at least for foreseeable future. In general it’s always a bad idea for human to supervise the machine because in time we grow complacent of its results and that’s when the mistakes happen. When it tomes to writing some content, biggest problem is inaccuracies or some typo. Your comparison to CAD software is not a good one, since CAD doesn’t produce anything on its own. It’s a software assisting human, not generating content. Imagine the horror with CAD software auto-generated bridges. It would be only a matter of time before someone would just skip on double-checking what was generated. And I am fully aware there are AI generated structural parts and testing, but it’s a part of design process where results have to checked by a human again.

    I do think AI has a place and purpose, but it’s not going to cost people their jobs, only help them do it more efficiently. It’s great in assisting people but not replacing. If there’s a manager out there who thinks AI can replace a human, then I can show you a bad manager who doesn’t understand what AI is. In the future we might arrive at a point in time where AI is good enough to do some jobs human find too repetitive or dangerous. But we are far from that.

    Also, LLM is not something I’d call AI, or at least intelligent. They are specialized neural networks which are trained using human input and whose sole purpose is predicting the next word or sentence in relation to what’s entered as input. Glorified and overly complicated auto-complete. There’s no intelligence involved.

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    MeanEYE ,
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    That’s not exactly how I view outcome of introducing new tools, but that’s will have to be agree to disagree part. In my opinion tools remove tedious tasks completely or make them easier giving you more time to focus on what matters.

    popemichael ,
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    That is like saying that the screwdriver is the most over-rated tool in the tool box.

    Each tool has a place and a usage. AI is just another tool in toolbox that is used to get things done.

    Obi ,
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    If everyone was talking about how the screwdriver is the most revolutionary thing ever and will disrupt all industries and replace love and art, then we’d also say it’s overrated.

    Bloodyhog ,

    AI is not overrated. We just don’t have it yet.

    rwhitisissle ,

    It’s an effective tool at providing introductory information to well documented topics. A smarter Google Search, basically. And that’s all I really want it to be. Overrated? Probably not. It’s useful if you use it correctly. Overhyped? Yeah, but that’s more a fault of marketing than technology.

    milkjug ,

    I have a doctorate in computer engineering, and yeah it’s overhyped to the moon.

    I’m oversimplifying it and some one will ackchyually me but once you understand the core mechanics the magic is somewhat diminished. It’s linear algebra and matrices all the way down.

    We got really good at parallelizing matrix operations and storing large matrices and the end result is essentially “AI”.

    hiremenot_recruiter ,
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    Big emphasis on the ‘A’

    thorbot ,

    That’s because it is overrated and the people in the tech industry are actually qualified to make that determination. It’s a glorified assistant, nothing more. we’ve had these for years, they’re just getting a little bit better. it’s not gonna replace a network stack admin or a programmer anytime soon.

    rsuri ,

    I use github copilot. It really is just fancy autocomplete. It’s often useful and is indeed impressive. But it’s not revolutionary.

    I’ve also played with ChatGPT and tried to use it to help me code but never successfully. The reality is I only try it if google has failed me, and then it usually makes up something that sounds right but is in fact completely wrong. Probably because it’s been trained on the same insufficient data I’ve been looking at.

    1984 ,
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    For me it depends a lot on the question. For tech questions like programming language questions, it’s much faster than a search engine. But when I did research for cars and read reviews, I used Kagi.

    thelastknowngod ,

    Yeah agreed. I use copilot too. It’s fine for small, limited tasks/functions but that’s about it. The overwhelming majority of my work is systems design and maintenance though… There’s no AI for that…

    MeanEYE ,
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    I still consider copilot to be a serial license violator. So many things are GPL licensed on GitHub and completing your code with someone else’s or at least variation of it without giving credit is a clear violation of the license.

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