Notices by Profane tmesis (ptmesis@writing.exchange)

@dalias @nini @cstross Yes, entirely agree.

I didn't say it was a good idea to do it. I just said that it was a use case where the technology works (well enough). That is why "it doesn't actually work" and "there are no use cases" are such dangerous arguments.

People with the legit use cases are going to stop listening to the anti-AI crowd, and do stupid shit like upload sensitive information to an irresponsible company that will train their next model on it.

@nini @cstross It's a mixture of everything. It's definitely being hyped, but it's also definitely being put to use (good or bad).

Let's say you have a ton of business records and you want to check if any of them include a specific shady practice. You can't just ask ChatGPT, but you can use it to annotate the records based on a natural language description of the practice.

It won't catch everything, but it will serve as an extra check.

@cstross Gary Marcus has been banging this drum since 2016 (when it we were still calling it deep learning).

This is his grift, he just predicts the end times for whatever flavour of AI is most popular, with zero insight in the technology or the industry.

For some reason people keep falling for it. Even Wired, apparently.