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Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"? (lemmy.intai.tech)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2331707

Feel like we've got a lot of tech savvy people here seems like a good place to ask. Basically as a dumb guy that reads the news it seems like everyone that lost their mind (and savings) on crypto just pivoted to AI. In addition to that you've got all these people invested in AI companies running around with flashlights under their chins like "bro this is so scary how good we made this thing". Seems like bullshit.

I've seen people generating bits of programming with it which seems useful but idk man. Coming from CNC I don't think I'd just send it with some chatgpt code. Is it all hype? Is there something actually useful under there?

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[–] odium 2 points 1 year ago

In my opinion, chat gpt is just a productivity tool. If you know how to use it, you can do stuff that you already know how to do a bit faster. However, it won't help you do things you don't know how to do.

This is because the things it generates are often wrong. The things which it gets right can usually be found through a search engine. You need to know how to do the thing already to know whether it is right or not, and to fix it if it is wrong.

On the rare occasion that it generates actually useful code that isn't googleable, it is some combination of non-scalable, doesn't consider edge cases, bad UI, or bad coding practices.