AI lowers productivity

[drhowarddrfine]

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[Crivens]

Nice. Of course you could just cut off a finger from 5 different people and leave their finger prints...

No need. Have them handle some silly putty, or pick them off a glass. There are even proof of concept attempts to get them from a picture made with a good camera and tele lens.

 

[Andrey Lanin]

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[blackbird9]

It lowers productivity because I have to hash out what the robot meant to say.

This is what typical work packages look like. They have been burned so much they try and cover every possible situation.

1352.271-72 Additional Item Requirements (AIR) - growth work | Acquisition.GOV

www.acquisition.gov

Sheesh... I gave up trying to parse that after the first few words...

 

[blackbird9]

I think that %pupil -sceptical wrote many correct things. mer wrote a universal formula for the AI of our time (garbage in - garbage out). Maybe the situation will improve, but I have no desire to work with AI today. Here is an example of graphics generation.
Literally everything is wrong. And what if the AI draws a map of the movement of a train that transports spent nuclear fuel?
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The thing is, when you've got an extra leg, you have a problem because you need a matching shoe, and they're usually only sold in pairs...

 

[tetsuo]

Every time I visit a BSD forum, it’s always the same:

- systemd is bad
- btrfs is bad
- launchd is bad
- d-bus is bad
- Docker is bad
- Rust is bad
- glibc is bad
- immutable distros are bad
- JS is bad
- GNOME is bad
- GTK is bad
- Wayland is bad
- Qt is bad
- bash is bad
- Python is bad
- Windows is bad
- Linux is bad
- AI is bad

I mean com'on guys. I get it, nothing’s perfect, sometimes even terrible, but this level of critique is beyond comedy. At this rate, oxygen will be next on the list.

Here we go

I do not see any lie in that list.

 

[blackbird9]

From today's slashdot...

US Programming Jobs Plunge 27.5% in Two Years - Slashdot

Computer programming jobs in the US have declined by more than a quarter over the past two years, placing the profession among the 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and potentially signaling the first concrete evidence of artificial...

developers.slashdot.org

"Anthropic researchers found people use AI to perform programming tasks more than those of any other job, though 57 percent of users employ AI to augment rather than automate work. "Without getting hysterical, the unemployment jump for programming really does look at least partly like an early, visible labor market effect of AI," said Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution."

Learn to code..?

 

[cracauer@]

From today's slashdot...

US Programming Jobs Plunge 27.5% in Two Years - Slashdot

Computer programming jobs in the US have declined by more than a quarter over the past two years, placing the profession among the 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and potentially signaling the first concrete evidence of artificial...

developers.slashdot.org

"Anthropic researchers found people use AI to perform programming tasks more than those of any other job, though 57 percent of users employ AI to augment rather than automate work. "Without getting hysterical, the unemployment jump for programming really does look at least partly like an early, visible labor market effect of AI," said Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution."

Learn to code..?

I would be more impressed if more of the code I get out of LLMs would even compile.

I can't imagine using AI generated code in a dynamically typed language. That must be type error heaven.

 

[blackbird9]

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I tried these three sentences:-

"Energise your synergies to make the promise real"
"We know you can write code but what you really need is soft skills"
"We need a warm body to do the baby steps"

- and it gave the correct response each time! 100% pefect score!

Even the true classics "you're being defensive" and "you're a professional" didn't faze it.

Reminds me of https://www.bullshitgenerator.com/

 

[mer]

The thing is, when you've got an extra leg, you have a problem because you need a matching shoe, and they're usually only sold in pairs...

Or Hotdogs are sold in packs of 6 but the buns are sold in packs of 8....

 

[blackbird9]

Every time I visit a BSD forum, it’s always the same:

- systemd is bad
- btrfs is bad
- launchd is bad
-

Here we go

What is this system 'd' you speak of? ...

 

[DonK]

Who hands over money to these clowns to make more "AI"?

Wall Street hands over dollars by the billions to be burned because it's good for the economy. Deep Seek crashed the IPO clown car by outsourcing Wall Street.

 

[tetsuo]

To be honest, to answer the question of whether AI is beneficial or not to humankind, we have to understand something

>Artificial intelligence is, in effect, artificial
>Human intelligence is the same as it has always been

We cannot even comprehend how or consciousness or intelligence actually works. And we want to create artificial intelligence? nah

Like yeah, sure it is epic to see chatgpt saying funny things or even "think". But it's not actual thinking. It's just predicting which is the following character. Nothing to do with how our brains work

And the fact that if you cannot put an AI into an alternative state of consciousness (i.e. deep meditation, psychedelics intake), it is indeed not intelligence.

 

[mer]

Is Artificial Intelligence trying to achieve/surpass Human Intelligence?
I find it amusing that everything tries to mimic humans but humans try to depend on everything trying to mimic.

I keep thinking of a human Chess Grandmaster: pattern recognition, decision trees, move this piece that way. Yes there are lots of programs that can play chess, but can they really play at GM level? I'm kind of asking because I really don't know, I know names of the pieces and how they move but have always been fascinated by the game at high levels.

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

It is so ridiculous how much AI is hyped as the next best thing, when it tells you to put glue on pizza! It is a tale as old as time of companies making crap, then starting a trend of their crap, just so they can make quick money. I hope the AI bubble bursts soon so that people realise that it's crap, because, at least unlike Crypto, it is slightly less obvious as bullshit, simply because it actually has a use (read: wasting your time) other than fraud (unless you count massive copyright violation)!

 

[blackhole]

I keep thinking of a human Chess Grandmaster: pattern recognition, decision trees, move this piece that way. Yes there are lots of programs that can play chess, but can they really play at GM level? I'm kind of asking because I really don't know, I know names of the pieces and how they move but have always been fascinated by the game at high levels.

As I recall, the most advanced chess engines, also store a huge database of historic tournament games, so they can effectively process that db and then try to discern the best move in a given situation. So similar in principle to "AI".

 

[Useradd]

Yes there are lots of programs that can play chess, but can they really play at GM level?

Yes, they can. They have an advantage over humans in every way except exploiting the psychology of their opponent. At least one computer can beat top Go players and, contrary to some claims, there is always a 'best move' in Go.

 

[mer]

Yes, they can. They have an advantage over humans in every way except exploiting the psychology of their opponent. At least one computer can beat top Go players and, contrary to some claims, there is always a 'best move' in Go.

Thanks. I have always found it fascinating how "the goal" is to get computers to match human pattern recognition capability. That's why I said "chess" watching high level especially the timed/speed stuff, I can almost see the decision trees being traversed.

But can the AI go "out of the box" like humans can?