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?
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.
Okay, I get you.
I do think top-end management is highly over committed to AI and is overvaluing its usefulness.
As others have mentioned, the smart executives are using AI as a scapegoat for layoffs so they can hire cheaper employees.
Sort of like how I was hired as the first software quality assurance engineer for the client/patient datbase driven website for UPMC so the deparment manager could say I wasn't doing my job prop3erly if I had rubber stamped al of the test cases as he demended because the H1-B visa indians couldn't even read the feature requirements because even though they could enunciate the English words they could not understand evn short phrases in English much less sentences and more than one did not know the difference between C and C# evn though the project was developed in ASP .NET.