Comment on Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Meh. Roughly 90% of what I know about baking is from chatgpt. There just wasn’t a comparable resource. “Oh God the dough is too dry”, “can I sub in this fat for this fat and if so how?”, “if I change the bath do I have to change the score method?”.
It is like I have a professional baker I can just talk to whenever. I am sure as I get better at baking I will exceed it’s ability to help but I can’t deny that what I have accomplished now I could not have in the same timeframe without it.
Buy a fucking book about baking. Not a fancy colour print recipe book, but a textbook, you know the kind with a chapter or two about dough chemistry.
If nothing else, as a beginner you have no idea which questions to ask and ChatGPT is never going to give you a dissertation about fundamental knowledge and principles. And you have absolutely no way to tell whether ChatGPT is spouting random nonsense.
I bought a fucking book more than one and it wasn’t as good. A fucking book can’t examine a picture and tell me what went wrong, the fucking book I bought didn’t have subsistion charts, the fucking book I bought didn’t respond to cntrl+F
Did you get this comment response or should I have faxed it to you?
If you need ChatGPT to analyse a picture for you you lack very basic knowledge about baking. It can’t smell, it can’t touch, it can’t hear, and it has never fucking ever baked. It has never taken a wet and sticky dough, tensioned it, and, voila, suddenly it’s a pleasure to handle.
And substitution charts? For what? If you understood the underlying dough chemistry you wouldn’t be asking in the first place. As said: You lack the basic knowledge to know what questions to ask, and once you have that knowledge your questions will only be answered by experiment.
“If you studied the topic for multiple years of your life AI is useless” Great, thank you, I didn’t know that
ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So? Are you saying you disagree with the premise of the article because chatgpt taught you how to bake? Professional tech work isn’t really relatable to baking at home.
CommanderM2192@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I completely disagree with the premise that AI is overrated. It’s fucking underrated.
Sure, if you just blindly put input into ChatGPT and use the output it’s not that useful. It’s a tool. You need to know how to use a tool to get the most use out of it. If you know how to use it properly, then it’s fucking amazing. Anyone claiming that AI can just magically work and do anything is a fraud.
The truth is that anyone who can’t get practical use of it is probably ass at communicating with people. Pretend it’s another engineer who’s junior to you and your passing work off to them. If you can’t do that, then you probably shouldn’t ever progress beyond mid-level in your career.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I believe the central premise was
Not professional tech work. Really not sure what you want from me. I found it a useful tool and I am sorry it didn’t work out for you or your application.
ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re splitting hairs here I think it’s fair to make the statement that tech industry workers perform professional tech work. I mean it’s cool that you learned to bake but what makes you think this means you know what the skill requirements are for tech workers and how well chatgpt can cover for gaps in those skills? Your dismissive ‘meh’ says to me ‘yea but I learned how to bake with chatgpt so I disagree with this statement’.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok fine you win. It is completely useless. Please go win arguments elsewhere.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
What’s professional tech work when it’s at home?
I don’t know what that term actually is supposed to mean do they mean programming, do they mean system architecture, systems management, cyber security, what?
The term is so broad as to be meaningless, so I don’t think you can necessarily say that it’s any harder than baking, because we don’t know what an earth we’re talking about.
ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Professional tech work at home is professional tech work. I think to anyone who actually have careers in technology wouldn’t see a distinction here. Programming is not the same as systems architecture, systems management etc. Programming is simply one of the tools you use as a software engineer. I do not think it’s too broad to be meaningless and I think comparing learning to bake to software engineering is reductive and shows a lack of understanding about the requirements of the field.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Where does the article mention programming?