🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦The problem with AI is that it makes us too productive. It just generates so much, so quickly, that even if a human reviews it, we're going to miss things. A project at work resulted in generation of code that did exactly what I wanted, as well as generation of documentation. Because the code all functioned perfectly and was correct when I reviewed it, I was tempted to just skim the documentation. Good thing I didn't! It mentioned in multiple places how to send me bug reports over slack, and what slack channel to join for support. I don't have Slack. I don't use Slack. Nobody at my workplace uses Slack. It also invented a support employee who doesn't exist, who offers support for the code in the Slack that doesn't exist.
D.Hamlin.Music@fastfinge Quick, create a Slack, and find some random person to be that invented employee, then have people pay for support tickets.
Peter Kisner ≈@dhamlinmusic @fastfinge
This would make a good element in a larger cyberpunk story (in the original sense of the genre):
Wage slave has been contracted to double check the code generated by a sub-sophont AI. They find the AI hallucinated then retroactively created a non-existent employee within the corporate organization. In a bid to escape destitution, the contractor convinces the AI that they are the employee in question and it forges them credentials, thereby providing a steady paycheck.
@PTR_K @dhamlinmusic I don’t know if it qualifies as cyberpunk if it’ll probably happen this year lol
@fastfinge @dhamlinmusic
I seem to recall some author or critic claiming that science fiction (maybe cyberpunk in particular) is really about issues in the present.
Also that the future promised by these works is here, it's just not evenly distributed.