Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks agoWhat’s different is that most people will see it as “tech stuff” and mentally file it in a drawer with spare extension cords and adapters. They don’t care to deeply study or catalog things.
People writ-large don’t care about proper genre labels either, they just kinda pick a vibe and guess off of it. Look at all the -core suffixed aesthetic names that cropped up in the last decade.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I think it’s unfortunate that tech is something people refuse to learn about. I’ve been able to explain technical topics to less technical people, they just need to care.
For example, I’m into finance, and have been able to explain pretty complex topics (compounding, Social Security benefits, derivatives, etc) to people with no background in a way that they know how things work at a high level. They may not be able to trade options or predict portfolio performance, but they can at least tell if their “financial advisor” knows their stuff.
Learning a bit about key technologies can help cut through the BS from marketing departments. But as soon as I mention something remotely technical, people shut down. If people understood that LLMs basically do keyword association to generate text from a prompt, they wouldn’t believe the lies that claim they “think.” Just a little bit of high level knowledge would change it from “magic” to a sometimes useful everyday tool.