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AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC (www.bbc.com)
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I'm not an AI techie and I'm not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I'm having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I've heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can't really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

sounds kind of sane and plausible, but it’s not really borne out by the reality.

I think a realistic case for that is that the AI tools that come out in the next few years will be good enough to do a fair amount of white-collar work

That’s just not what I’ve seen.

What I have seen is that AI tools make software development significantly easier, faster, cheaper - pick two, and as long as you aren't picking cheaper we're going to get better software coming out faster over the coming years.

Better software translates to easier, more automatic processes for a lot of white and blue collar work. It doesn't do everything, but it does a lot.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

we’re going to get better software

Hard disagree.

The surge in unmaintainable vibe coded AI slop open source projects is well discussed. More isn't better.

Better software translates to easier, more automatic processes for a lot of white and blue collar work.

This is what I'm getting at. I'm yet to observe any of this.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The surge in unmaintainable vibe coded AI slop open source projects is well discussed.

Hard disagree. Internet discussion glosses over little things like: quality control, discarding of garbage, reverting to better solutions when they are available. Some irresponsible morons will indeed muck up their production code base with slop and be unable to let go of it when they realize their mistakes, but the majority will be able to try again and replace the bad with better.

Agree: a lot of slop has been produced in the last year, that doesn't mean anybody is using it.

Better software translates to easier, more automatic processes for a lot of white and blue collar work.

This is what I’m getting at. I’m yet to observe any of this.

I'm living it, but then, for the past 30 years I've been building systems that make existing processes more automatic, repeatable, less labor and less mistakes. I'm just building those systems faster and easier than ever before now. This isn't the only advancement in productivity I've seen since I started programming in the 1980s - just one in a long history of significant advancements.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can't roll my eyes any harder.

This conversation has been had n billion times. If you could do anything worth doing it wouldn't even be a conversation - if you really could automate away even a portion of human work the evidence would be so compelling the dawning new age would be undeniable.

It's almost comical that you think claude writing your sql schemas represents the dawn of a new era in productivity.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't worry, ai has allowed his brain to atrophy.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm the same commenter you called a piece of shit.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Congratulations! Pieces of shit can be right sometimes!