Without phones, we couldn’t talk to people across great distances (oversimplification but you get it).
Without Generative AI, we couldn’t…?
Without Generative AI, we couldn’t…?
This line of thinking is ridiculous.
The phone let's you talk to someone you couldn't before when shouting can't.
ChatGPT let's you...
Please complete the sentence without an analogy
The answer is that chatgpt allows you to do things more efficiently than before. Efficiency doesn’t sound sexy but this is what adds up to higher prosperity.
Arguments like this can be used against internet. What does it allow you to do now that you couldn’t do before?
Answer might be “oh I don’t know, it allows me to search and index information, talk to friends”.
It doesn’t sound that sexy. You can still visit a library. You can still phone your friends. But the ease of doing so adds up and creates a whole ecosystem that brings so many things.
AI is fascinating technology with undoubtedly fantastic applications in the future, but LLMs mostly seem to be doing two things: provide a small speedup for high quality work, and provide a massive speedup to low quality work.
I don't think it's comparable to the plow or the phone in its impact on society, unless that impact will be drowning us in slop.
And that is slop work is always easier and cheaper than doing something right. We can make perfectly good products as it is, yet we find Shien and Temu filled with crap. That's not related to AI. Humans drown themselves in trash whenever we gain the technological capability to do so.
To put this another way, you cannot get a 10x speed up in high quality work without also getting a 1000x speed up in low quality work. We'll pretty much have to kill any further technological advancement if that's a showstopper for you.
They spoke slowly, through letters, until phones sped it up.
We coded slowly, letter by letter, until agents sped it up.
It does not. You could still till the land with hand tools. You just get a lot more done.
ChatGPT let's me program in languages I was not efficient in before.
Anyway, I'm done with your technology purity contest, it has about zero basis in reality.
I could have taken the time to do the math to figure out what the rewards structure is for my Wawa points and compare it to my car's fuel tank to discover I should strictly buy sandwiches and never gas.
People have been making nude celebrity photos for decades now with just Photoshop.
Some activities have gotten a speed up. But so far it was all possible before just possibly not feasible.
People seemingly have some very odd views on products when it comes to AI.
How obtuse. The poster is saying they don't enable anything of value.