I must confess to getting a little sick of seeing the endless stream of articles about this (along with the season finale of Succession and the debt ceiling), but what do you folks think? Is this something we should all be worrying about, or is it overblown?
EDIT: have a look at this: https://beehaw.org/post/422907
Way overblown. Someone either trying to sell me AI products and overhyping what they can do, or trying to sell clicks on an ad-infested website to read probably AI generated content on why AI is bad.
But, as a tool it’s great. Copilot has saved me some time on boilerplate stuff on personal projects, and ChatGPT has helped refine some writing for family when I’ve pointed them in the direction of it.
I studied some AI at University. Not overhyped frameworks or tools, just fundamentals. Believe me when I say the dropout rate is high in the first few weeks when people realise a lot of it is fancy statistical models or inference.
You’re right, it’s a helpful tool and people have found it useful. That’s great. To wonder if we should be scared? I’m quite honestly more scared about what the already intelligent people around me can do, especially when empowered by these shiny new tools.
Yeah, what smart folks can do with these tools combined with mountains of data most people leave in the wake with their online presence is a little frightening. Not like the data itself wasn’t frightening in the first place, but with these tools it’s a lot easier to process it.