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[–] [email protected] 264 points 8 months ago (20 children)

The fun thing with AI that companies are starting to realize is that there's no way to "program" AI, and I just love that. The only way to guide it is by retraining models (and LLMs will just always have stuff you don't like in them), or using more AI to say "Was that response okay?" which is imperfect.

And I am just loving the fallout.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The best part is they don't understand the cost of that retraining. The non-engineer marketing types in my field suggest AI as a potential solution to any technical problem they possibly can. One of the product owners who's more technically inclined finally had enough during a recent meeting and straight up to told those guys "AI is the least efficient way to solve any technical problem, and should only be considered if everything else has failed". I wanted to shake his hand right then and there.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That is an amazing person you have there, they are owed some beers for sure

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