• @Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    General AI is a good goal for them because its poorly defined not in spite of it.

    Grifts usually do have vague and shifting goal lines. See star citizen and the parallels between its supporters/detractors vs the same groups with AI: essentially if you personally enjoy/benefit from the system, you will overlook the negatives.

    People are a selfish bunch and once they get a fancy new tool and receive praise for it, they will resist anyone telling them otherwise so they can keep their new tool, and the status they think it gives them (i.e. expert programmer, person who writes elegant emails, person who can create moving art, etc.)

    AI is a magic trick to me, everyone thinks they see one thing, but really if you showed them how it works they would say, “well that’s not real magic after all, is it?”

    • IgnotumEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      Idiots thinking a new thing is magic that will solve all the worlds problems doesn’t mean the thing doesn’t have merit. Someone calling themselves an exper carpenter because they have a nailgun doesn’t make nailguns any less useful.

      If you see a person doing a data entry job, do you walk over to them, crack their head open and say “aww man, it’s not magic, it’s just a blob of fat capable of reading and understanding a document, and to then plot the values into a spreadsheet”?

      It’s not magic, it’s not a super intelligence that will solve everything, it’s the first tool we’ve been able to make that can be told what to do in human language, and able to then perform tasks with a degree of intelligence and critical thinking, something that normally would require either a human or potentially years of development to automate programmatically. That alone makes it very useful