SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at being a person, told reporters Thursday that he saw huge potential in AI. “While it’s still in its early phase, artificial…
  • Peanut@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Salty writer fears being made obsolete by beep boop. Insults every AI enthusiast as well successful engineers and scientists.

    i hate how popular it’s become to hate on AI amongst people who know little to nothing about it.

    Id forgive it if it were clever or funny, but this is really just obviously salty ad hominem strawmanning by someone who doesn’t understand or appreciate the technology

    Guess what fam, we are in the copilot tool phase. You can learn how to use these new tools AND learn how to be creative. Maybe then you could ask it to critique the humour in your satire article. Perhaps it would be more clever than “people who like this thing I don’t like are dumb, and can’t be creative or better than me In any way, because I’m cooler than AI will ever be!!! You nerds are stooooopid!!”

    Because that’s how it read.

    • juergen@feddit.deOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      As an IT Professional i hate AI, because many People favor AI in Situations where statistical Algorithms are already good.

      • it has huge energy needs to train a model on thousands on input data, compared to simply having a concise statistical algorithm who does the thing you want to do. Think Spam filtering (usually an statistical Algorithm) vs Captcha (in Google’s case AI)
      • It is much harder to debug and fixup after it has gone wrong. structrual Bias in the input data (think sexism, racism) is hard to remove on a big scale. Algorithms are easy to change.
      • As Software Developer, i favor mimimalist but useful technology. Very few things AI can do (which Algorithms can’t) are actually helpful to society.
      • I think of Software Development as an Art of Craftmanship - AI is far away from that, it is like searching for needles in a hay stack in terms of finding solutions. And when you found a solution, you don’t know why it works, you can’t adapt it to other Problems easily.

      I agree that AI can be helpful and inspiring for new Algorithms but in many cases AI is used to replace Algorithms, wasting huge energy resources in the process - instead of just improving said Algorithms.

      • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        The huge energy needs are… yeah

        There was an article in our newspaper not long ago about the possibility of using AI to optimize the CO2 footprint of concrete.

        Like, everyone was suuuper into it, and it genuinely did a good job at what they needed it to do. But actually using this at a large scale throws the benefits completely out of the window in terms of raw energy consumption to even run it.

      • Peanut@sopuli.xyz
        0·
        1 year ago

        hey, that’s a better critique or commentary than in the onion article.

        while i don’t doubt people are trying to shove AI into a lot of places it’s not optimal yet, (which is entirely fair and reasonable to point out) i don’t think that’s a fair reason to poo-poo any use or positivity about AI in any context.

        rather, it’s become a really big fad to hate on AI and insult anyone who uses it. i mean, the technology is still young, but the stuff it’s already doing was “impossible” and “never going to happen” a few years ago. now we are developing things like text to 3d, which makes me excited for a future environment where you can dictate design and animation for entire animated experiences/movies.

        independent creatives will have a blast with it. salty onion article writer will be angrily yelling at his computer.

        • juergen@feddit.deOPEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          I think i am hating AI this much is also due to the fact that we as humanity have big troubles fixing the climate catastrophe. And not only does AI in 99% not contribute meaningful things towards this huge challenge, rather it accelerates the problem with its huge energy needs. Needs which i call “waste” compared to the much more important problem of solving climate catastrophe.

          It is the same reason i hate bitcoin.

          This onion article captures my emotion much better than anything anybody has said in recent years. It is glorious satire, loving it.