Haven't heard much about it in a while. My boss at work keeps telling us to use AI to do things AI isn't capable of doing without so many errors it takes more time to review the AI output than to just do it myself.
I noticed a lot of AI datacenters that were talked about mostly all stalled.
What's the current situation on AI?
I prsonally know one woman whose entire job role, even though she is a competent engineer, has been transitioned to using Copilot.
See, I just don't get this. I think my breadth of knowledge in these jobs is lacking. I'm in banking and most of my friends/family are engineers/accountants/lawyers or other bankers. While, AI can certainty help alleviate some of the work in some regards it could never replace anyone, not at this level. Are these all small companies with terrible processes or super large companies that somehow automated what their engineers were doing? An engineer being replaced by AI just has me wondering like wtf kind of engineering job did they have to begin with. Doesn't make sense to me.
Their previous work was scraped. Complexity of systems means that if something is altered it coud break other parts of the system. Enginers wre there to prepare for that or fix it. AI won't know the specific system on which it is working, won't know requirements, won't know any specifics. Furtherore, it "hallucinates".
I also don't think people realize how bad AI hallucinations are. When you ask AI what the best way to optimize something is in which you're an expert, it almost always comes back with some sure answer like: the best way to do X if you want Y is to use Z because Z is the best due to ABC. But in actually, Z doesn't have the qualities of ABC, the AI just made it up.
Also, the AI might be given a range from 0-10 to work with to optimize something and then it'll come back with a solution that only uses the range of 0-5 for the optimization. If you didn't already know what the answer ought to be, you won't catch it but it may have missed a number of more optimal solutions because it just decided to shorten its range for no reason at all.
I've literally seen AI source things that don't exist, not even in the cache somewhere.
A product might have a warning label saying this product doesn't do: XYZ and then AI comes back and tells you the product does XYZ by citing the warning label.
By the time you sort through all the mistakes AI makes, it ends up being worse than just manually doing it.
You should see when I tried to faceswap Mr. Rogers onto the guy who went into the yard of their own home in a private gated community that the burn loot murder terrorist were rioting carrying his rifle while his wife had her pistol exerciz8ing their constitutional 2nd amendment rights while a bunch of trespassing terrorists were rioting in their private gated community where they had no legal right to be.
It just reposted the same image of Mr. Rogers I uploaded, then it swapped the face of the person in the face I wanted Mr. Rogers swapped into onto the portrait of Mr. Rogers, then it just started morphing that faceswapped portrait, eventually changing it to a female for some reason.
I wound up dowloading GIMP Portable and Paint.Net Portable.
You're basically saying this transition is going to be a massive failure... Is that what you're saying?
Just like all the other "give a man a hammer" events in the past.