Things are still moving fast. It’s mid/late july now and i’ve spent some time outside, enjoying the summer. It’s been a few weeks since things exploded in the month of may this year. Have you people settled down in the meantime?
I’ve since then moved from reddit and i miss the LocalLlama over there, that was/is buzzing with activity and AI news (and discussions) every day.
What are you people up to? Have you gotten tired of your AI waifus? Or finished indexing all of your data into some vector database? Have you discovered new applications for AI? Or still toying around and evaluating all the latest fine-tuned variations in constant pursuit of the best llama?
True. I didn’t even bother giving it tasks like that. I don’t think AI is going to replace software designers or programmers anytime soon. Well… maybe except for simple stuff, copy-paste programming, simple scripting, webdesign and some self contained and not overly complex stuff. It’s a fascinating tool, can help you do things quickly, answer questions, do prototypes. But if you throw real work at it, you soon realise it has severe limitations and isn’t even close to the human intellect. Okay. Maybe you consider it heaven-sent if you studied history instead of computer science and it provides you with python-scripts to sort your data.
Journalists and people who write text have similar problems. The chatbots generate convincing text and can take over some of the work writing text. But for example if you need to write a text that is correct and factual, you’d be better off without AI. At least that’s what i read in some articles about ChatGPT. Everyone needs to put in considerable effort to fact check its output, and double check everything to the point that it doesn’t make sense to run the AI in the first place.
I learned the hard way to never generate anything I couldn’t create myself, of at least verify its validity.