therealxris t1_j70zqx8 wrote
Reply to comment by CaringRationalist in The steam engine changed the world. Artificial intelligence could destroy it. - The Boston Globe by GlobeOpinion
AI can’t surpass shit. It only spits back what we tell it and it’s not very good https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/01/wolframalpha-as-the-way-to-bring-computational-knowledge-superpowers-to-chatgpt/
Chat gpt for example gets so much basic stuff just blatantly wrong that no ai is taking over anything any time soon. And thinking they have any actual intellect is just wrong.
CaringRationalist t1_j7254vq wrote
Compare Chat GPT to AI 5 years ago.
You're just wrong. AI is literally already replacing sophisticated labor, and companies are pumping billions more into their development than they were before specifically because of the positive results.
therealxris t1_j794gxo wrote
What you said doesn’t contradict what I said though. Chat gpt is only as good as the data it’s fed and it can easily be fed wrong data that it will confidently repeat as fact. Yes people are using it for labor but that doesn’t mean it’s smart or self learning. I’m not wrong, you just don’t understand the tech.
CaringRationalist t1_j796pps wrote
And humans can't be fed the wrong data that they confidently repeat as fact?...
I think I understand it just fine given that my original claim was about it being smart enough to replace our intellectual labor, which you've now agreed to, and not that it was either self learning or perfect.
therealxris t1_j7a38eu wrote
No. You are wrong. Again.
The part of your post that I disagreed with is, and I quote:
>"AI is poised to surpass our intellectual power"
I still disagree with this. It is still a stupid thing for you to have said and has nothing to support it.
I also never said that AI is replacing "intellectual" labor, so whatever point you think you made there is equally stupid.
Funny for someone with rationalist in their name to be so out of their mind over AI
CaringRationalist t1_j7a595x wrote
Nothing to support it? I specifically mentioned several fields in which AI is already better than highly educated labor. The qualifications for being a geologist capable of finding new oil reserves is a PHD, the highest level of education that very few laborers ever reach. AI is already better at doing their jobs than they are. That's what was funded first, and now the funding is on mainstream applications, it just hasn't caught up yet.
No, you didn't, I did, and you responded to me ignoring that. That's the context of what I said that you responded to.
Sorry that I'm not historically illiterate I guess.
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