Yeah we all hear the main arguments… AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly… how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I’m asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
Depends what you mean by AI. Because for the most part “AI” nowadays is just a pure marketing term. What the tech company marketing calls “AI” is not any kind of intelligence in the actual sense of the term. It’s just some machine learning algorithms and fancier CGI. We had “AI” back in the 90s too. Every computer game where the computer player makes autonomous decisions is a kind of AI. It’s the marketing that is the problem. The idea that it is some kind of revolutionary technology that can replace human labor. It’s not and it won’t be. It’s just another tool. Unfortunately too many people have fallen for the marketing hype, which has served to inflate the AI bubble that will pop sooner or later.
I’ve messed with neural nets over a decade ago and ever since I realized their limitations back then I’ve lost all interest.
It can never outgrow its own boundaries. If you train one too much then its output will just be the literal training data with some error, but never anything better, no matter how much data you throw at it.
That alone has always made the ideas that it can “create” things or “think”/“solve problems” absolutely ridiculous to me.
I’ve said this before on lemmy and have gotten downvotes from it, but neural nets are much closer to something like an ASIC.
And now there actually is a company that literally makes ASIC chips that implement neural nets! ;D
I’m not denying that neural nets do have genuine uses, but the way most are being used in the 2020s just grosses me out.
Now people say that but 10+ years ago nobody cared. I had 2 chatbots talking to each other about random things that got picked from the Internet as an experiment all running 24/7 on a Pentium D PC, and whenever I showed this to someone they responded with a “uh cool.” Now these same people think they’re interacting with a “thinking” being that is capable of doing their job whenever they engage with some LLM-based bot, when in reality it’s not too different from what I had back then at its core.