I think the biggest problem with AI is that people expect it to fully do the work for you rather than be a tool. Imagine we live in a world without cameras and someone introduces that as something that will make paintings for you. Then users dislike it, expecting cameras to frame, aim, zoom and shoot for them.
I use AI for coding and it’s amazing… at giving you an 80% correct boilerplate code that you then finish up editing yourself. There’s real time savings there. I don’t ask it to make the whole code because then I’m going to have to find the mistakes.
I use it also to summarise 3000-commit changelogs, which after some refinement it does way better than I could do in any reasonable timespan.
A colleague with dyslexia now writes without worrying that his grammar isn’t making much sense, then an LLM fixes it for him.
The problem is when you use the result of the AI as a final product, because the reality of the technology is that then you get slop. There are so many people that just can’t see past this and either use AI directly as an unattended slop generator, or don’t use AI because they don’t think it can be anything else. But I’m convinced you can use it as a tool with an input in less than 20% of a creative process (by this I don’t mean “art” but any type of creation) and still save a real and significant chunk of time.
Could not have said any of that better myself. As a tool, it’s above and beyond even the search engine when it was new. Used to have 7 engines bookmarked and struggled until Google came around. Investors are looking for the next game changer.
Of course we’re buried in stupid AI slop! Always said the 1910s and 1920s were the Cambrian Explosion of mechanics. We’re living the bizarre explosion of AI. No telling what evolves and survives, but it will change the world.
I think the biggest problem with AI is that people expect it to fully do the work for you rather than be a tool. Imagine we live in a world without cameras and someone introduces that as something that will make paintings for you. Then users dislike it, expecting cameras to frame, aim, zoom and shoot for them.
I use AI for coding and it’s amazing… at giving you an 80% correct boilerplate code that you then finish up editing yourself. There’s real time savings there. I don’t ask it to make the whole code because then I’m going to have to find the mistakes.
I use it also to summarise 3000-commit changelogs, which after some refinement it does way better than I could do in any reasonable timespan.
A colleague with dyslexia now writes without worrying that his grammar isn’t making much sense, then an LLM fixes it for him.
The problem is when you use the result of the AI as a final product, because the reality of the technology is that then you get slop. There are so many people that just can’t see past this and either use AI directly as an unattended slop generator, or don’t use AI because they don’t think it can be anything else. But I’m convinced you can use it as a tool with an input in less than 20% of a creative process (by this I don’t mean “art” but any type of creation) and still save a real and significant chunk of time.
Could not have said any of that better myself. As a tool, it’s above and beyond even the search engine when it was new. Used to have 7 engines bookmarked and struggled until Google came around. Investors are looking for the next game changer.
Of course we’re buried in stupid AI slop! Always said the 1910s and 1920s were the Cambrian Explosion of mechanics. We’re living the bizarre explosion of AI. No telling what evolves and survives, but it will change the world.