@stevenlevy has written his “This Changes Everything” for AI (referencing his Dec 1995 article about the Internet). Certainly the power of AI now is gob-smacking…and frightening. I have found AI very useful in various ways, from helping me debug stuff in my 11ty website to assisting me with research tasks. But over the past 6 months or so, I’ve also come to realize that the human parts of the web — and it’s inherent openness — are worth fighting for, and saving. https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-believe-the-ai-hype/
@ricmac@stevenlevy “the demos aren't lying” is flagrantly false. The demos are lying at scale. I'm reminded of the opening of Accidental Empires hailing Gates's skill at demoing while avoiding bugs.
@KevinMarks@stevenlevy Good point, those OpenAI demos were dubious. Still, even the current range of AI tools available for people to use are impressive.
@ricmac@KevinMarks@stevenlevy recently learned / discovered that asking “what country last declared war on Germany in WW2?”, subbing in synonyms for country (“polity”, “state”, “nation state”, “who”) will cause chatGPT to generate wildly different answers, ditto repeating the question. My (unsolicited) two cents on a good check on how much the demos are lying.
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