This is why I get so frustrated when people demand I integrate this stuff into every workflow. It’s not thinking at all. It’s just regurgitating text based on input and hoping for the best.
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
There are gobs of money to be made selling enterprise software, but dulling the impact of AI is also a useful feint. This is a technology that can digest a hundred reports before you’ve finished your coffee, draft and analyze documents faster than teams of paralegals, compose music indistinguishable from the genius of a pop star or a Juilliard grad, code—really code, not just copy-paste from Stack Overflow—with the precision of a top engineer. Tasks that once required skill, judgment, and years of training are now being executed, relentlessly and indifferently, by software that learns as it goes.
Literally not true.
It can’t “analyze” documents. There’s no thinking involved with these machines. It outputs the statistically most likely thing that looks like analysis.
And it’s not even close as good as the top engineer. If it was there would be no engineers TODAY.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
LodeMike, I’m curious about something. What’s the latest set of AI models and tools you’ve used personally? Have you used Opus 4.5 or 4.6, for instance?
I am not disagreeing with the points you’ve made, but it’s been my experience that the increase in capabilities over the last six months has been so rapid that it’s hard to realistically evaluate what the current frontier models are capable of unless you’ve uused them meaningfully and with some frequency.
I’d welcome your perspective.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Not OP but I use these on the regular.
I’d still agree with the OP that there are hard limits to what these can do. I’ve gotten Claude stuck in loops before on removing unrelated code, then adding it back, then removing it again hoping it’ll fix something.
And OP is still correct. At the heart of all of this it’s “given input x guess the probability of response Y”. Even frontier models don’t think. They can output tokens to call tools to try and get more input x but it’s still a best guess.
You can also give them too much context and get “context rot” which makes their output absolutely horrible too. I think cursor had a problem with that where too many Claude skills caused cursor to hallucinate and go nuts.
dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
All valid points.
However, the actual capabilities of the AIs might not matter with respect to job displacement, since the people making the hiring decisions are absorbing the marketing hype but not using the tools.
Even if folks are still hired, they might experience second order effects like increased job stress and burnout: fortune.com/…/ai-future-of-work-white-collar-empl…
I’m rather glad that I’m reaching the end of my career and not trying to break into the market as a junior software engineer.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
Opus like the audio codec?
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 22 hours ago
And let’s not forget the asinine claim about music composition. Yeah, this is a bullshit fluff piece to keep attention on AI.
XLE@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Could AI blow up the world tomorrow? Who knows! The future is unpredictable, so it’s basically a 50-50, right? /s