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• rodneylives@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Assuming that’s true, and that’s a BIG assumption… What makes you think that would matter? AI has no interiority; it isn’t a thinking blob, it’s a text generator. Think of it as a fancy Markov chain.

  Even if it were true, where in the chain do new principles, new techniques, new concepts enter into it? All these forms of generative AI can do is regurgitate what’s been fed into it. The worst thing you can train an AI from is AI-generated output.

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ever heard of skills? You can essentially “teach” it new things that are not directly available in its model, right now it’s still pretty early but it (to me) feels like quite a leap compared to model-only usage.

    Its by no means perfect, but I do not think we’re even close to scratching the surface of what all can be done with the tech.

    I would bet people back at the advent of computers would scoff at many of the things computers can do now as fantasy.

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    • rodneylives@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Ever heard of skills,” wow thanks for beginning with a dismissive statement that implies all of this you’re saying is not only true but obvious. This is not the way to respond to people with strong objections.

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I apologize for responding partially dismissively to your obviously dismissive op.

        I was also being serious though, most people who only mildy use AI don’t know how to optimize it with things like skills, normies just chatgpt/claude/copilot directly in the literal “chat” not using additional tooling like skills/sub-agents/mcp servers.

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