It’s not the AIs which are crap, its what they’ve been sold as capable of doing and the reliability of their results that’s massivelly disconnected from reality.
The crap is what a most of the Tech Investor class has pushed to the public about AI.
It’s thus not at all surprising that many who work or manage work in areas were precision and correctness is essential have been deceived into thinking AI can do much of the work for them and it turns out AI can’t really do it because of those precision and correctness requirement.
This will hit more people who are not Tech experts, such as Lawyers, but even some supposedly Tech experts (such as programmers) have been swindled in this way.
There are a ton of great uses for AI, especially stuff other than LLMs, in areas where false positives or false negatives are no big deal, but that’s not were the Make Money Fast push for them is.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I think people today, after having a year experience with ai know it’s capabilities reasonably well. My mother is 73 and it’s been a while since she stopped joking about what ai wrote to her that was silly or wrong, so people using computers at their jobs should be much more aware.
I agree about that llms are good at some things. They are great tools for what they can do. Let’s use them for those things! I mean even programming has benefitted a lot from this, especially in education, junior level stuff, prototyping, …
When using any product, a certain responsibility falls on the user. You can’t blame technology for what stupid users do.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I recommended to one person (who* didn’t know well) that she use chatGPT to correct her grammar. It is great for that.
However she then paid for a subscription because she likes the “conversations”. Am feeling guilty now. Better check on her that she isn’t losing the plot.