AI sucks balls

[Azure]

It is making everyone dumber and will eventually kill the human race.

 

[chimpoehurricane]

After using it for a while now, I think I can confidently say that it sucks. And I'm not sure it will ever live up to the hype for these reasons:

1. There's an old addage that goes something like, "Humans are smart but slow. Computers are dumb but fast." And that's been true forever. And it seems like AI hasn't changed that at all.

AI can make you a PowerPoint presentation, or write an essay, or generate some code, but all of it still needs to be reviewed and corrected by a human. So at best, AI is giving you a 1st draft that's usually pretty low quality. It's doing the "dumb but fast" work. Which isn't that different from what computers have always done.

2. When you ask it questions, it's basically just pulling information from the Internet and compiling it into an answer for you. But compiling and summarizing info is something computers could already do without AI. So it really doesn't feel like there's any "intelligence" there.

3. I'm not sure that AI will get much better. Humans are the flaw in the system. Because AI is trained to give humans what they want/need, but humans can't agree on shit. So we want AI to give us accurate answers but some humans will say the earth is flat, and will tell the AI that any answer to the contrary is incorrect, so the AI will struggle to provide facts because nobody can agree on the basic facts of anything anymore.

So the promise that AI will cure diseases and shit I think are completely false. I don't see any of those positive contributions that we're expecting. But we still get all the downsides, like students cheating, jobs being eliminated, fake videos and other AI slop flooding the market. Etc.

It seems like we're going to get all the downsides and very few, if any, upside.

I've never been a Luddite and I have always loved cool new tech, but AI sucks and I think it's likely that it always will.

Morons keep outsourcing for AI and h1bs. When you see how catastrophic it will be; dot com was tech. 08 was housing.

These morons got this crap in everything (healthcare, education, infrastructure, etc). This isn’t going to end well.

Zero AI companies are profitable. Please no morons bring up chip companies.

 

[Nizam al-Mulk]

I think the fact that people think that "AI Sucks" is a reflection of your ability to utilize it for what you are expecting out of it.

Sure, I can use a long stick to hammer a nail into something.
But I can also use a hammer.
Shit, even more advanced I can use a nailgun.

All 3 of the aformentioned are *tools* - HOW you use them will determine their usefulness based on the task you are trying to accomplish (and whether or not its the right tool for the job).
Just because you aren't necessarily adept in said utilization, or your application of said usage isn't yielding the desired results (that you have set an expectation for) doesn't make the tool itself 'suck'.

AI is a tool. Good or bad, useful or useless - its here and is proving quite useful for a majority of its users.
And has been for much much longer than we have been aware.

Its just now coming into mainstream usage.

So 1998s Delta Force video game had no AI and it was not mainstream?

 

[Frank_Drebin]

this is the reason why RAM costs so much now???

 

[blopdak]

This post reminds me of when I thought iPhones were dumb and would never catch on because they had bad battery life.