The AI dooooooom thread

[Legbiter]

A lot of these online AI evangelists sound increasingly unhinged lately (AI will automate 80% of white collar work in 18 months!!). All this progress in AI and not a single serious piece of culture other than unbearable slop shorts. Where is that single compelling consumer app that has come about via vibecoding? The models immediately shit themselves the more anyone tries to iterate with them, the industry is desperate to try and shove them into literally everything to get enough uptake so they can later rugpull the userbase with subscription fees, it's a heinous state of affairs. the public will Butlerian Jihad this once electricity prices start rising enough, electronics manufacturers start going bankrupt because they can't get access to reasonably-priced chips along with the constant threats of economic immiseration and a slop-clogged internet.    

[crazy canuck]

What is happening is some companies are buying the hype and implementing AI to do entry-level tasks. The experience of those companies is a drop in productivity because more senior people have to spend a lot of time verifying the work that the AI does. Much more time than would've been spent training a junior people to do the work properly.

The net result is that in addition to productivity drops, once the people who actually know how to do things start retiring those companies are going to go out of business because there will be nobody left to find the mistakes being made by AI.

The companies who continue to hire and train junior people are going to eat the lunch of the companies that went the other way.

[Legbiter]

A new article in Nature.



Machine learning is good, useful, etc. But shoving what is basically an autocomplete script into everything and calling it AI...

It's like if Silicon Valley got absolutely oneshotted by Clippy back in 1997 (OMG it gives you tips on what to do next! Hail the Omnissiah!!!) and just decided to pour a literal trillion into it.



Here's the Nature article. How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science

[Richard Hakluyt]

Humans, eh? What a bunch of bloody idiots we are.

But still vastly superior to AI 

[Valmy]

Humans, eh? What a bunch of bloody idiots we are.

But still vastly superior to AI 

AI has managed to do things I never thought possible. Things computers in 1985 would have no problem doing, remembering very simple facts, AI fails to do with rather perplexing regularity. I am always astounded how much I have to hold AI's hand, I never have to do that with an Excel spreadsheet.