We all know that trying to get non-pozzed responses to anything involving hot button political/social topics from Big Tech trained AI models is a fool's errand, but I'm wondering if anyone has found them to be of any use when it comes to programming. Despite what a number of my professors say, some of whom are definitely not diversity hires, I haven't found them to be of any use. Maybe it's because I'm only asking hard or niche questions when I can't find the answer elsewhere, but I haven't gotten any help from the bots in my programming tasks. The last time I tried it invented modules to a package out of thin air. Had those modules actually existed I wouldn't have needed to ask the question to begin with. From what I've seen the most it can do is help pajeets cheat in their programming 101 classes. Has anyone here had a different experience?
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But seriously I have experimented with it and I'm not impressed, people grossly overexaggerate the capabilities of machine learning algorithms because they seem to really want their skynet larp and I see people who should know better doing this as well since it's the 'current thing' to be scared of.
There was an experiment that was done on the godot forums and it was an absolute disaster. Some bright spark had the idea of implementing a form of ChatGPT I think it was in the form of a bot on the forum. Not only did it confuse the fuck out of genuine newbies who were trying to ask questions it also frequently gave 'answers' to very specific questions and quite often it was simply shamelessly copy-pasting responses from the internet.
I'm being a stubborn fuck about AI for a reason, it's frankly exposing quite a few people for being lazy arseholes and this is going to happen more as time goes on and people keep trying to shove these machine learning algorithms in almost everything because it's the new hip current thing that totally isn't just a massive data farming op.
This is not sentient or 'clever' AI in any capacity, the people who are trying to sell it as that are lying or don't know what they're talking about, I can't wait to see how badly it's going to fuck everything up as people become reliant on it.
I both agree and disagree with this statement.
No, it is not sentient nor is it operating from anything like a position of sentience or AGI. Any one who says this or thinks this, cough journalists cough, are not worth reading.
Detractors of the technology latch onto this as a strawman argument to attempt devalue the entire technology.
It's a tool. It has proper and improper uses. It has things it is good at and things it is not good at. Between code templating, SQL optimization and generation, error checking, etc., my productivity is improving today.
If you refuse to even look at a tool because some mouthbreather on the Internet thinks chatGPT is going to replace novelists and become skynet, that's your error of reasoning.
It can, however, be quite clever!
I mean don't get me wrong, I get that argument. I do appreciate machine learning when it comes to other stuff and I have seen legitimate use cases for it, yours is interesting, I just hate the hype and marketing around it most of all. You're going to see almost everybody adopt this bullshit without having any clue of what it actually does. I know what I would use machine learning algorithms for potentially, however people who go "Hurr durr use stable diffusion art for your stuff it's easy" piss me off.
It's like they've been given a hammer but they don't know the specific use cases for what a hammer is really useful for so they just start hitting everything with it and are telling me it's the best thing in the world even as they've gone and smashed everything in their house.
Lol, one last thing. I inherited an insane Excel spreadsheet...multiple worksheets, years of data, etc.
pasted in some of the schema, gave some workbook names, described what I wanted to do, and it came up with some spot-on xlookup() vlookup() functions. Pivot tables make my eyes cross, and this took about 60 seconds to finish.
I think I've written enough on the topic, but I've given some explicit examples, etc., in other posts. Look at my recent posts or so if you want to see the rest of my thoughts.