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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.
(www.theatlantic.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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Man I swear, AI is like astrology, people have strong opinions about it but haven’t done any research into what it actually is. So much more nuanced than ‘AI bad!’
Please keep going.
If Ramsa's birthday is Capricorn then he does up to 50% more DMG to certain bosses.
Thousands of years of research into a short interpretation
Please tell me more about astrology as a millenary discipline.
Astrology is a millennia-old discipline built from the systematic observation of planet and star cycles and their perceived correspondence with earthly events. It developed alongside astronomy, mathematics, calendrical science, agriculture, medicine, and political forecasting across several civilizations. You don’t have to accept its interpretive claims, but reducing it to newspaper Sun signs is a bit like reducing literature to a fortune cookie
What’s the value, then? It sounds like its results are correlations between loosely interpreted measurements, i.e. two identical sets of observations may correlate to different events, depending on subjective post hoc interpretations.
Is that what you mean when you compared this to AI? Because LLMs are stochastic parrots?
No, it would be more like reducing religious literature to fortune cookies, which is entirely comparable and an apt analogy.
The analogy you picked really doesn't match your point at the end, unless you somehow think astrology is nuanced (it isn't, it's bullshit).
I see, and what makes you the decider of bullshit?
How many bites of a shit sandwich do you meed to take before you know what you’re eating?
Well you see I'm a Virgo, and as a Virgo....
And how much research have you done into astrology? Point made.
Burden of proof is on Astrology claiming to be real.
Real what? If you believe in seasons, you believe in astrology
Please, I would love to hear you explain this. I need to hear you explain this. How so?
Large Language Model (LLM) is like astrology, Mashine Learning (ML) is like astronomy. I hate that they both refer to as AI.
Neither of them really fit, but AI is a very marketable term. So basically anything that does stuff on a computer will be labeled that when someone wants to sell it badly enough.
That's exactly what Baldur Bjarnason explains in his well-researched book "The Intelligence Illusion". I can highly recommend it!
Lemmy is the wrong place to be if you want nuance. Most people here aren’t accustomed to thinking for themselves.