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Poll: Are you for AI or against AI?

5 pointsandrewstuart20 comments

Are you for AI or against AI?

I like to use AI for research and learning about new topics, and for occasional code snippets.

I'm not completely sold on the "agent" thing yet, although I do admit they can be pretty fun to use.

I'm very pro-AI and i think LLMs are an important technical step in achieving it (even if in the end it might turn out that LLMs helped achieve AI by showing how not to do it). But they suffer from premature commercialization. I'm very much against trying to sell them as the ultimate solution to everything. And another issue, not related to the technical aspect, is that business practices of certain self-styled "AI companies" calls for guillotining of their upper management.

I'm against people continually referring to spicy autocomplete (aka LLMs) "AI".

You people do know that the I in AI stands for "Intelligence" right?

Only recently.

I'm a traditionalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaOlhYFBO9g

I believe even impregnation by bogan is still considered "natural".

Fair comeback, but there's still enough Artificial Insemination going on to make a hill sized lube slide with the leftover.

Disturbingly, a good number that attend a B&S Inseminators ball are off the traditional bogan scale (even allowing for cashed up bogans) .. arriving in limousines (albeit some rented) or private aircraft after graduating from some elite private school or another.

Traditionally it's a multiday paddock bash that begins with tuxedos and ballgowns, and morphs through food dye, lube, straw, burning cars, and a lot of not rated for televison behaviour to end in chaos.

All so asset rich multi millionaire nepo babies can swap keys and combine harvesters and pass on the thousand+ acre farm to another generation.

I'm not really interested in a summary of The debauched lives of Bogans without Shame vol 254.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure OP wasn't referring to any kind of Insemination when they asked about AI.

None the less it was yourself that asserted the I in AI stood for intelligence when clearly the AI Acronym has alernative priors.

> I'm not really interested in a summary of The debauched lives of Bogans

That seems a bit judgemental there;

bogan - "an uncouth or unsophisticated person regarded as being of low social status"

seems at odds with events often attended by millionaires and billionaires with multiple degrees and on the honour roles at snotty schools of high standing.

Mate I have no clue why you're so obsessed with insemination but I'm confident it's not what any else is discussing here.

I find LLMs more intelligent on average than many people.

I think either you don't know what intelligent means or you're hanging around extremely dim people.

Maybe both.

I'm for AI the technology. Who doesn't want cool sci-fi future tech? But I'm against AI being co-opted by our dear leaders to end white collar work and lock us all in a permanent underclass.

I’m for AI in a big way, but I’m against the future in which your ability to program a computer is only with the permission of the AI companies.

Lose your account, lose your ability to program.

Local models?

These will be made by the same companies won’t they?

And once they’re valuable they won’t be giving them away any more will they?

This outcome was predictable and expected, but people opted to pretend it didn't exist. Now we will all face brutal consequences.

What do you mean by "AI"? The LLM stuff we have now or real AI, ie, HAL 9000?

HAL 9000 obviously. It’s all people are talking about.

Well then, rerun the poll when we are anywhere even close to attaining that. It's still all hypothetical.

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