Trammell Hudson"Let's put AI/LLM in everything" is the new...
Lead
Radium
Heroin
Asbestos
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Simon ZerafaRadium is the best analogy.
Got put into everything and then suddenly found to be extremely toxic and completely useless for it's alleged uses.
Oblomov@simonzerafa @th I think asbestos is more appropriate, because we've actually managed to get rid of all the radium hogwash but we're still dealing with asbestos
Gian@oblomov @simonzerafa @th The Problem with that is, that Asbestos (and lead) are really useful if you disregard the health effects. We had to look for other stuff when replacing asbestos and lead and in some aspects those materials and compounds probably were better, except for the healt aspect.
AI the way it is being pushed currently just replaces better things for the sole reason that you don't have to pay somebody to make that better thing.
oh, that's a very good point.
But radium also had practical uses beyond the quackery that put it everywhere, and in some cases it it still used (or was until very recently, for things that fundamentally work on similar principles), so I'm still not convinced the comparison would hold either.
(Also «if you disregard the health effect» is a bit too close to «if you disregard the ethical aspects» of AI to disregard ;-).)
a fish named dog ✡️♾️@oblomov @GianH @simonzerafa @th but even if you do disregard the ethical aspects of AI, it's not gonna do much except make shitty stuff. asbestos, if you disregard the health effect, you can save people from fires with, among many other things.