@miles nose grows because the sentence isn't a boolean
@mondanzo well that's what we're asserting here: that he's a universal lie detector.
@andrewt I think it has to be spoken, but ASL might work
The real challenge there is how many lies can you have Pinocchio tell which pretty much defines the speed at which you can get infinite wood. But there's no requirement for what language Pinocchio can speak, so what we need is to invent a language with a singular syllable that can tell multiple lies at once.
We've been discussing the logistics of Pinocchio at Anthrocon and frankly our findings are astounding. Consider, Pinocchio could read any sentence and you would immediately know if it was a lie or not. You could use him to fact check politicians, you could also ask him to say "Dark matter is real" and we would immediately know the answer. Furthermore, assuming his nose grows endlessly we could exploit this in order to get infinite wood.
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
