Automated assembly lines had a net positive impact on productivity though.
LLM's are just as revolutionary as Automated Assembly Lines were.
Submitted 2 months ago by JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Windex007@lemmy.world 2 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
So do LLMs. They don’t sleep or eat and the can work as fast as hardware allows.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
But the output of AAL is useful and desired.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 months ago
Here’s the big difference. Automated assembly lines do a job better than the average human can. LLMs do the job consistently worse than the average human would.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This might get down voted but let me share a nuanced take.
AI is either overhyped or underhyped.
Yes, right now LLMs won’t change the world, don’t make great lawyers, don’t replace software devs and don’t write all of your emails. But if you used some more recent ones, they can definitely help you express or help to write quicker, and they can give you a bird’s eye view of a topic.
And let’s also make clear that AIs are not useless nor is their potential exhausted. Right now they are useful helpers in specific scenarios and they only get more useful from here.
There are important questions around: what constitutes a personality, a right to an image, or when does imitation bevome stealing, and how do you even consider an AI model on questions of copyright.
I think the problem is that people have promised to much from this technology and that’s why everyone just associates it with bad results. But there’s more to it, and nuance gets lost in the stream of strong opinions.
Like the comparison.
The implantation. Is different, the effects will be different, and how we evolve with it will be different, but AI does already have a solid impact and it will continue o have one.
And the industrialization was neither good or bad. How some people fucked over poor people’s lifes in the process is despicable, but just because things get faster or more efficient is not inherently a bad thing.
Now we definitely need rules here. Some shit people and companies do with AIs is wild and should be illegal, but as always law takes time. Maybe it’s an illusion but I hope for a healthy integration of AI in small ways into our life. And I really mean small. Give me chatgpt and AI spell checking, and maybe some code auto completion. Don’t put all those AI assistants into everything because that’s not the way to go. Change done right moves slow, and if we only had the things we know how to use, we’d be a lot better off rn.
Just as automated assembly lines at some point let to electronic devices being more accessible, I hope the LLMs we use will become well placed and non-intrusive.
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And if you’re not careful you can fuck up your fingers in either case
halvar@lemm.ee 2 months ago
While right now that may not be the case, but as someone who looked into the topic I can definitely say that it has similar potential. It’s just that a lot of companies just duct-tape AI onto their product and the result they get is usually shitty. But if you ignore all those “projects” that are obviously meant to fail, there are some promising projects and applications for AI that are actually made by people who understand what they are doing, the limitations and the upsides of the technology and they may just make products that are indeed useful.
Sorry for the undecipherable wall of text, it’s early in the morning for me.
SirSoy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think you’re underselling the automated assembly line quite a bit and how truly groundbreaking it was llm is the progression of an existing technology. AAL was just something completely new.