Look, I’m not really one to care either way about the fucking thing. It’s a tool. That’s all I’ll say.
But normies (or at least a certain subset), now, are fucking obsessed with the thing. Like, it’s absolutely cult-like, with the usual slavish devotion, the complete unwillingness to accept any criticism, and, perhaps most importantly, a massive overestimation of just what the thing is capable of, and what it can do…
Stupid fuckers genuinely believe that they can have some version of “fully automated luxury gay space communism”, just because of the last couple of years of AI hype, and the fact that it can write better essays than their utterly pathetic selves can even come up with…
Like, fuck, I’ve even had teachers going on and on about how this brilliant device will “save us all, and allow us to be our full transcendent selves”…
The ignorance is astounding. The utter hype-following and clout-chasing is even worse…
Like, yes, the “creatives” worrying for their jobs can be annoying, but they’re nothing on the hype-cultists who have jumped on this bandwagon to the point of basing their entire futures on what they think this fucking system is going to do “for them”…
It’s like the first smartphones all over again, but somehow so much worse…
/endrant
Since you brought up code It may help you with commonly asked and answered questions on the internet but in typical fashion for me I'm somebody who has to essentially be an internet archaeologists when it comes to some topics. For example if I asked the chat bot a very specific question about creating 3D selection boxes in Godot which I've had to recently I bet it would constantly end up drawing blanks like the search engines or spew out some completely unrelated answers. The reasons for this being.
. Godot 4 in particular is brand new software and my questions would be related to that
. Selection boxes while yes 'technically simple' for the maths autists they're nightmare maths for everybody else, especially for 3D, theory is fine but syntax is a bastard
In order for me to find the answers to this problem I had to go and create a thread on the forums and chat to people about it and someone ended up replying to me and was really helpful by working together bit by bit to get the damn maths working on the particular game engine that I was using.
Can a chatbot do that? No it can't, it's not the first time I've done this either and I've had to ask some quite complex questions to people who were clearly experts in the field that really only they can answer. Way beyond the type of shit that normies would ever asked.
People are too easily impressed, I could probably troll the fuck out of the media given how hyped AI is right now but in this instance rather than take five seconds to re-examine their own baseless fear they'd probably turn into a mob against me for making them all look stupid, that goes for the normies too.
Well yeah, it is definitely light years away from being able to solve things that aren't easily solvable from the information that it was trained on. But in my case, it took coding problems that would have taken me hours to solve, even while heavily relying on internet searches and stack overflow, and solved them in 30 seconds. That is undoubtedly impressive and even that level of competence is enough to cause big waves across a bunch of industries.
I get the feeling that when I have this discussion with people here, we are all talking about different things.