Re: The AI you hate IS avoidable

Date: 2025-05-29 08:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lproven
Funny you should cite Prof Acemoglu, as I just read this earlier today...

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-productivity-boom-forecasts-countered-by-theory-and-data-by-daron-acemoglu-2024-05

Otherwise...

I think you're being too moderate here.

I am perfectly willing to admit that I could be wrong on this. However, my impression is that the only sane, coldly rational conclusion to draw from current LLM-bot powered "generative AI" is that people are easily fooled by parlour tricks.

As a comparison, worldwide homeopathy sales were about $10 _billion_ last year.

Homeopathy absolutely, categorically, DOES NOT WORK. Not at all, ever, not even a little bit on some people.

Cf.

https://www.howdoeshomeopathywork.com/

It is pure undiluted 100% horseshit. It is a scam. All alternative medicine is a scam. If it worked, it would be medicine. The fact that it's not means it's been proved not to work.

Acupuncture, reiki, reflexology, aromatherapy, whatever: all fake. All pure total scam and nothing else, no exceptions.

There are lots of things that are believed in by millions that categorically are not true. Every religion in the world for a start.

"AI" is homeopathy for tech bros.

It doesn't work. Like homeopathy, the idea, the mechanism, the execution, the result, and the tests all show _it does not work_.

I want to see more of [personal profile] reddragdiva's adamant scepticism on this.

I am not likely to ever be swayed by "well maybe it's not _all_ bad" arguments.

It _is_ all bad.
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