AI... And what's next

[Mauvve Knight]

AI, today you cannot read the newspaper, online articles etc without the term AI. Writing an essay? Use AI! Writing a message in Telegram Messenger? Wow, you can use AI to get your expression or answer better! Music? Using AI nobody can hear if a song has been written by a human or by using AI. Same goes for video or photo's. With these examples AI gets overhyped imo. What's wrong with my own creativity and skills to write articles and messages myself? I do not need AI to create music myself. No need for AI. Working on a photo in Adobe Photoshop? Use AI! I But I cannot see any advantages of using AI, no need for.

He, okay, actually I use AI. Not for using it for writing or creating. For instance I am writing code but I'm getting stuck somewhere because I don't get results or the code comes up with error messages. In such case, when I don't know what's the fault I ask AI to check where I have gone wrong. But even then I check the code to see if nothing bad has been added to it. And I look to see what was the right solution for that fault.

Another example: during my debut in Linux I found some good books to guide me through the beginnings, especially using CLI. Not for telling me how to use it (I already have downloaded the guide to learn from) but as an addon to show me more examples and deeper explanation.

And then comes the culprit: after decades of searching on search engines and getting websites as results, almost every search engine shows AI results first and then websites as result. Google wants to switch to AI completely, instead of websites you get an answer on your search. No more websites and you have to trust the answer because the sources for the answer are not shown. Bad idea...

I was surprised to see a company like Apple makes AI a big part of their OS (Siri will be your friend as AI agent). Unbelievable. Even if you don't want AI at all you have to accept it. No Opt-in, no Opt-out... And I don't know if Microsoft has done the same.... Even health care is using AI heavily.

Isn't it clear to mankind AI can make mistakes as well as humans? What if you trust AI and only AI and everything is near an apocalypse just because of AI?

I'm not warning or saying AI is bad. AI might be useful as aid but no more than that. AI itself should never ever be able to take decissions by itself but only proposing them. When I'm reading bad hackers are using AI to find vulnerabilities easily and writing code to abuse these, it sends the shivers down my spine...

After all, I'm glad I'm able to choose myself if I want AI in Linux or not (and no, I don't want AI in Linux). As far as I know there's no AI glimping over my shoulder to see what I'm doing when... Well, maybe.. It might be my wife to do that...

But then, what will be the next invention which will be overhyped like AI.... And no, this has been written by myself, without AI.

 

[MikeRocor]

AI does have its place... at this very moment there's some "AI" going on down the hall because chihuahuas in question can't seem get anything done the old fashioned way. Hoping there are some kind of results this time, otherwise the owner of the tiny girl dog won't cough up the other half of the fee.

The kind of "AI" you're talking about, though... if we use it enough and it produces usable results 10% of the time, it will still be better, in some people's eyes, than depending on honest human creativity. For me - I've got no use for it.

 

[theLegionWithin]

"AI" is basically just augmented processing but those dastardly marketing folks had to get their grimy hands all over it (nothing against marketing folks personally but they dont really contribute much of value). sometimes I use it when searching for something and I'm feeling lazy - but I never trust the initial search results. hallucination is a thing, after all.

I dont use it in any application other than search - and there i use Google's variant exclusively. at the office (we're a winOS only business on the frontend with IBM/Oracle/linux on the backend), Microsoft's variant is constantly getting embedded into everything. a lot of folks that I support use it - they have to in order to remain competitive - and it's not like the company is giving them any choice. last year everyone on my team was forced to take a 6 hour training module on "recognizing and using AI in modern business" - big waste of time imho. augmented processing is just too new. maybe in 10 years it'll be reliable enough that I'll use it daily - but my opinion is that we're not there yet.

the real problem, as I see it, is that Big Tech has sunk so many resources into it (easily billions of $$$$$ per enterprise) that they have to justify it's use by forcing it on everyone. if they dont then it'd be seen as a bad investment and many executives would lose their jobs - "AI" doesnt seem to be actually generating much revenue yet, ~$50 million, annually I used Gemini to find the answer, they're not even trying to fudge the numbers. there's no "killer app" yet - when there is, the Big Tech company that has it will be positioned to gain massive revenue for its shareholders. maybe.