Consumer-oriented AI promotes stupidity

[Peter Ehlert]

venting...
https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/ai-consu ... idity.html

[hellsangle]

From the 2 June New York Times:

"The Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes
Elon Musk’s Starlink has connected an isolated tribe to the outside world — and divided it from within.

A Starlink satellite internet antenna in the Manakieaway village of the Marubo Indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon."

Altering cultures . . . Some good. Some bad.

Projecting another's culture onto these people that thought nothing of running around naked. Now they are "clothed" . . . and now they are addicted to their phones.

Technology can be a two-edged sword . . .

[falcon]

Great article @Peter Ehlert.

I am not a fan of the recent LLM's, or even the naming of them as AI. They are not intelligent, have no fidelity, nor think. They are statistical models of stringing words together, and then stringing sentences together.

Early in the rollout I heard they could write essays. Great! I was in school at the time. So I had it write a typical third year level essay (it was in a GNSS or survey Technology class or something like that). I prompted it for number of words, told it the essay prompt, and instructed it to cite references.

Terrible. Totally unusable. It MAYBE would have been cool for an 8th grade level. But even then it wasn't the word count, repeated itself, didn't know basics of GNSS nor GPS, and lied about references (I looked them all up).

I see LLM's as the next frontier of sucking up VC money. They needed something after Bitcoin. So here it is.

[CBarrett]

I am growing increasingly frustrated with Copilot. Responses are getting quite lame, and increasingly internet-generic.

I liked GPT better for professional use.