I think AI is neat.
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I think LLMs are neat, and Teslas are neat, and HHO generators are neat, and aliens are neat...
...but none of them live up to all of the claims made about them.
Yup, I use Chat GPT all the time. But I don't type "Hey ChatGPT can you tell me how to..." because it's a computer that's mostly just searching a database. I just type what I'd normally type into google. Many times it gives me an answer faster than google. Also it can convert some SQL schema into a DTO. There's been software that can do that for a while, but it's nice to just do it ad hoc without configuring scripts or whatever.
It's a useful tool for many things. But there's no intelligence there. It's more like the computer on the Enterprise than it's like Data. But that's not bad having a computer where you can say "Tea. Earl Grey" and it does the thing you want is very useful.
It's 90% hype, but the 10% that's not hype is still useful. It's just obnoxious that people keep going on about how they're going to replace people with this. Just say it will help people be more productive, that's a great accomplishment on it's own.
I've found it handy for getting clarification or more information if I don't get part of my textbook. It does randomly fuck up though, which means you can't just accept what it says... As a jumping off point it can be very useful.
It doesn't need to be intelligent to be incredibly powerful because a ton of human intelligence has already been transcribed into the words it was trained on. It can still perform tasks that require intelligence because it can pull from human intelligence via what humans have written. It does mean that it's limited by a combinatorial of what intelligent text was fed into it, but the vast majority of tasks we perform are not novel so it can still automate most tasks. It becomes incredibly powerful when you start making it so meta programming, so it's calling functions and responding based on their output. It can even write full on programs to assist itself in performing logic. The hard part that were working on in the space is adding the necessary safe guards it needs to be reliable and stay on task. It reminds me of the early days of the Internet. Right now everyone's just figuring out what's the right way to work with this tech, but once the frameworks are on place to provide those safe guards I think the potential is on par with the kind of impact that the Internet had.
...What are these? Something to do with hydrogen? Despite it not making sense for you to write it that way if you meant H2O, I really enjoy the silly idea of a water generator (as in, making water, not running off water).
HHO generators are a car mod that some backyard scientists got into, but didn't actually work. They involve cracking hydrogen from water, and making explosive gasses some claimed could make your car run faster. There's lots of YouTube videos of people playing around with them. Kinda dangerous seeming... Still neat.
Thanks! I hadn't heard of this before, hydrogen fueled cars, sure, but not this. 😄