Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/100905-over-half-all-tech-industry-workers-view-ai.html
Over half of all tech industry workers view AI as overrated::undefined
I work in an AI company. 99% of our tech relies on tried and true standard computer vision solutions instead of machine-learning based. It’s just that unreliable when production use requires pixel precision.
We might throw a gradient descent here or there, but not for any learning ops.
It’s not overrated.
Using the “Mistral instruct” model to select your food in the canteen works like a charm.
Just provide it with the daily option, tell it to select one main-, side dish and a dessert and explain the selection. Never let me down. Consistently selects the healthier option that still tastes good.
I mean in its current form yeah, but obviously it’s going to get really good in the near future
What kind of timeframe do you think, several months, a few years?
The tech is here, the problem is risk management. Like, we’ve had the ability to have self-driving cars for almost a decade. Like catholic priests and pedophilia, they are much less likely to crash compared to the common man. But the assumption is that they never crash, so when they do everyone makes a big deal about it.
Think of all the B.S. documentation reports people have to write that no one reads. LLMs could easily handle those, but do you want to risk it if those reports actually become important?
The best use I’ve found for AI is getting it to write me covering letters for job applications. Even then I still need to make a few small adjustments. But it saves a bit of time and typing effort.
Other than that, I just have fun with it making stupid images and funny stories based on inside jokes.
That is like saying that the screwdriver is the most over-rated tool in the tool box.
Each tool has a place and a usage. AI is just another tool in toolbox that is used to get things done.
If everyone was talking about how the screwdriver is the most revolutionary thing ever and will disrupt all industries and replace love and art, then we’d also say it’s overrated.
It’s an effective tool at providing introductory information to well documented topics. A smarter Google Search, basically. And that’s all I really want it to be. Overrated? Probably not. It’s useful if you use it correctly. Overhyped? Yeah, but that’s more a fault of marketing than technology.
Well, it depends on your bubble I guess. But personally I’d say it’s underrated and overrated at the same time, but mostly underrated.
It depends on your expectations and way of usage in your toolbox I’d say. It keeps surprising me weekly how fast progress is. But we get used to it perhaps.
As a college student, I agree with the idea and statement of AI being overrated. It’ll definitely have its’ place in this world, but I definitely don’t foresee us being able to utilize it to the fullest before we end up in a nuclear hellhole.
Giant markov chains are shit, not a hot take imo
The other half does not know how people rate things.
It’s not the magic that all people think it is. They even warn you that the facts might not be true facts.
That depends heavily on the framing. AI right now is overrated, it can do a ton of stuff, but rarely anything useful. AI in the (near) future however will eat all our jobs and everything else.
It’s always worth keeping in mind under what restrictions current AI still operates. ChatGPT never saw a compiler, a shell, never could test its code. It’s pure book-knowledge without any practical experience. Yet it still can produce quite good code, at least for small problems. What it might be capable of once it has access to a compiler and runtime environment could far surpass what we have today. But it’s speculation, since we don’t have that yet.
The generative AI is great but I don’t expect it to fully replace human workers or not entirely. The current tech has a lot of limitations and I can see this tech as greatly improving the work productivity and handling some monotone and mundane tasks but it would require some sort of human supervision.
generative ai sucks ass at just about everything there’s no way it’s replacing jobs
I’ll try and remember that as it makes my job significantly easier
Over half of all tech industry workes don’t know how to use AI, I guess? I’m sure there’s some percentage of people whose jobs are advanced enough that AI will not help there, but I bet my kidney that it’s not more than half.
“Half of tech workers” is exactly the expected number, completely unsurprising. The absolute null hypothesis. Why? Well, since the days of ENIAC the number of programmers doubled roughly every three years. That means that at any point in time, half have less than three years of experience and thus no idea what they’re doing. In the past roughly decade, maybe one and a half, most new devs went into webdev which explains the javascript ecosystem, now AI is getting a taste of that.
Clickbait title. The graph looks pretty balanced actually.
Like all things should be.
The other day ChatGPT contradicted itself in the same sentence so yeah, they’re right
AI is not overrated. We just don’t have it yet.
It’s very overrated, and devs out there, if you are using it, the rest of us can tell, and not in a good way.
What’s your dev background? Can’t tell if you’re sarcastic or not.
Even though its true. These articles still make me laugh thinking about how they’re all written by a popular girl in class when the new prettier girl shows up. Sure Becky, we get it, Kelly dated a 38 year old and snorts like a pig when she eats.
I work in tech (and have a Bc in IT and Masters in Theoretical Bio) and… I absolutely don’t know.
Who of you fuckers actually read this article and went not like “duh yeah let’s upvote this dumbass clickbait headline”
That’s the half that won’t learn how to use it and lose their job because of it
Quite the opposite. People who understand how LLMs work know their limitations. And AI in general is incapable deduction and creativity. It simply is not able to produce something new by using existing knowledge. Sure it can generate a number of outputs through some transformations of input data. But not create.
If you think developers, engineers, architects and others are going to lose their jobs you are severely mistaken. Even for content writers it’s a temporary setback because AI generated content is just limited and as soon as quality of human input to same AI starts dropping in quality so will AI’s output.
AI (LLMs) is just a tool and people will have to learn how to use it if they wanna keep their jobs, people who refuse to learn it will be left behind just like people who refused to use CAD software or people who think they can saw, drill, … by hand as fast as a machine.
Current AIs (LLMs) wont replace anyone, people who know how to use them will.
Yeah, and my moms a tech worker, and just tried ChatGPT for the first time today. I wouldn’t go listening to her opinion on the topic, but she’d also not offer it with no knowledge or experience of it.
little_hermit@lemmus.org 11 months ago
I asked chatGPT to generate a list of 5 random words, and then tell me the fourth word from the bottom. It kept telling me the third. I corrected it, and it gave me the right word. I asked it again, and it made the same error. It does amazing things while failing comically at simple tasks. There is a lot of procedural code added to plug the leaks. Doesn’t mean it’s overrated, but when something is hyped hard enough as being able to replace human expertise, any crack in the system becomes ammunition for dismissal. I see it more as a revolutionary technology going through evolutionary growing pains. I think it’s actually underrated in its future potential and worrisome in the fact that its processing is essentially a black box that can’t be understood at the same level as traditional coding. You can’t debug it or trace the exact procedure that needs patching.
aidan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s definitely feasible, like what they tried to do with Wolfram alpha- but do you have a source for this?
ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I believe I saw this kind of issues was because of the token system. Like if you tell him to find a word starting with a letter, he can’t really do it without hard coded workaround, because he doesn’t know about single letters, only about tokens which are parts of the sentence.
It’s definitly more complicated than that, but it doesn’t mean AI is bad, only that this current implementation can’t do theses kind of task.