Got to meet Danny devito at the con!!
Also it feels insane I have to bring stuff like this up but really, is there no level of sympathy from people when we point out "wow the tool being pushed by companies that are literally laying off thousands of employees and saying the AI can handle it makes us a little uncomfortable".
fuck professionalism my dude I get told at my workplace all the time that my mental health should take priority over my job but now that's a bit inconvenient so whatever
You can go into great detail about how the AI has no understanding of what it's generating and the maintenance issues that will come from that only to be squashed by random Joe Smith who successfully created a small project for one specific thing with the AI.
"I see code, the AI made code, there's no problem"
The problem is writing some short thing that you need and don't really need to understand is both something the AI will have plenty of ready made examples to go through, and doesn't get anywhere close to the amount of complexity required to start to see the problems.
We know it can generate things, the problem is maintaining those things and actually understanding how they work. You cannot reasonably be a kernel maintainer for example without understanding the code you're maintaining
I think one of the frustrating things about the "are AI tools useful" debate is that people just assume you don't think the AI can generate code or just post stories about "I needed this one simple thing but I didnt know python so I had the AI write all my stuff".
Because it seems like validation towards AI being useful, but in actuality it doesn't deviate at all from the expectations people against using AI actually have. We know it can do things like this
Anyone have any ideas for stuff for me to print around Anthrocon?
I did bring my positron >:3
#Pittsburgh #Furry #FurryMusic
Come one, come all to the furry music extravaganza at Mr. Roboto on Saturday the 5th at 7 PM.
For those of you taking a bus from #Anthrocon, take the 88 Penn from Liberty & William Penn Place (stop 15285) to Penn & Winebiddle (stop 9190).
Mr. Roboto is located at 5106 Penn Avenue in the Garfield neighborhood, just across from Spak Bros. Pizza and Two Frays Brewing. (Yes, those are shameless plugs for both.)
Hospitals for children scare me. You only let children in there? All of the doctors are children? How is this allowed, what is this country coming to.
Unsurprisingly, it claims repeatedly to me that I have mentioned medford massachusetts or that it simply just "used a random geographical location".
buddy.
Well that's fun. Gemini just said a quiet part out loud and revealed that it's clearly been trained on data that gives it access to my geographical location. I know this because I was asking it random questions to waste time, one of which was asking for a press release for a made up company. It immediately started the release with my town and state.
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