I was talking with someone not particularly computer literate about AI. He was quite dismayed at how factually inaccurate it is about so many things. He asked me, as a much more computer literate person, if I could build him a different better AI system. I was like "Dude, I build websites. No."

[–] Redkey@programming.dev 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

How many techie types have had someone come to them and say something like "Hey, you know tech thing XYZ? You know how it sucks? Well I've got a great idea: make a BETTER one! So what do you say? You whip it up in an afternoon, I'll handle marketing, and we'll be rich!"

Like they really thought that the issue is just that no-one can see the flaws. They thought that the fix is super easy and they're just the first person clever enough to see it.

[–] shrugs@lemmy.world 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

My rule of thumb is: if I see an incredible easy solution for a problem in a field I am no expert in, the solution must be garbage for reasons I don't understand

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 weeks ago

LOL, I feel this so hard 😂

[–] groet@feddit.org 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wonder how people can be so naive. Even if they don't know just how much money is thrown at AI, just the fact that it is now in literally anything and on the news every day should be a clue that it is a huge industry. You wouldn't expect the guy that changes your cars tires to be able to single handedly build a car that is better, faster, cheaper and more efficient than all car companies together.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 5 points 4 weeks ago

America has always had an anti-intellectualism streak and it's become 3000 miles wide.

You know those cute stories: "Kids solve problem that the experts couldn't handle". They're propaganda. The paper left out that the kids' solution wasn't economically viable, and the dumber among us walked away thinking the "white coats" didn't have enough "common sense".

[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago

No one can, because they (LLMs) are fundamentally not suited to the tasks people try to use them for.