I'm sure everyone notices every day how many articles and ads now hype AI usage in our future and how products now use it.
And I hope everyone checks the results it produces.
Since duckduckgo.com offers to use some ChatGPT for free I tried it several times to find something. I summarized my experiences under "
It's all about jokes, funny pics..."
This sh... really simply just makes things up, not checking them itself, but apologizing a lot if you point out that it was garbage it told you, and then tries to distract you to complete other things, like shopping websites.
It's like talking to a pupil you caught on not did his homework, but believes he was smarter than you, and he could score by telling you other things you didn't asked but he knows.
I think A"I" is just the latest fad.
I wouldn't put it this way.
AI simply is a technology that recently reached a new level of its development.
When a technology development reaches a level even Johnny Everyone can do something with it - a useless toy was even better than doing something useful with it (in our society. which leads to social questions like decadence, et al);
CShell brought the example of the nutrition educated who ate poison just because a computer told him so. When in the late 1990s the first (mobile,
PDA) navigation systems for cars came up I experienced several people got lost on the exact same way they drove daily for twenty years - then money comes in, and with it come business people. There is some shit that can be sold large.
So a hype is produced. Euphoria is needed. Because shit needs to be sold quickly before the majority realizes it again ain't the jack-of-all-trades wonder solving all problems for free, and bringing a lot of money for everybody without effort. Even people calling themselves nature scientifically educated laughing about the stupid people from former ages still want to believe in magic.
Hype means mixing up things: hopes, wishes, dreams, and fancy ideas with the realistic, actually useful but boring stuff, like it's to be used by experts with expertise simply as an assistance within very specific, and limited applications, not really a replacement for humans in general.
Herein lie the real problems hypes produce: They produce imprudently rash misses, the need to later clean that up again, to separate and dissolve all the muddle, while at the same time there is a lack of scientific ways to talk to each other, but avoidance of putting things into perspective.
But by what I understand from the news I see on HN, et al, to me it's clear:
This bubble already has begun to burst.
Sad is only:
People again will not learn nothing from it.
It's just a question of time the next bubble will be hyped, and (almost) everybody will become euphoric again about another, new technology that promises to make humans expendable.
