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I doubt anyone here hates AI other than for the big companies pushing it constantly. ML and language models have been a thing since the last decade but we only hate them now cause of how desperate the corpos are about it and oh the data scraping too but that's expected.
For me it helped with:
Albeit I could do these myself by looking at docs but it's not worth the time. Now it just works instead of "maintaining my arch setup".
I'm in my 50s, I've been in IT professionally for 30 years, using Linux for 25 of those.
I hate AI.
I don't hate the technology, but I hate the culture of "ez learning" and the marketing. Literally people who have no clue about technology openly saying "wanna bet?" when I say it doesn't always have the right answers.
Sure, 19 of 20 chatgpt answers are great, but that 20th answer is dangerously wrong. Like, wreck your infrastructure wrong.
I also hate what it's doing to young minds the most, though: the 20 something techs I hire will lean on AI so hard, they have no sense of what to do if the answer isn't forthcoming, just ¯\(ツ)/¯.
AI is killing problem-solving.
Edit: I'm distinguishing AI from ML here, which I do use as a pattern recognition tool.
Yes, exactly. Its killing problem solving ability and learning. Taking the extra time to search around and figure things out helps you learn. Not to mention its poisoning its own well, making legitimate answers harder and harder to find on the web.
I completely agree. In the current context it's important to note that I have a cs degree and you too probably and way better than me. But some people don't know how to use computers and that's fine. They just like to surf or play games. I think when you are troubleshooting your pc, it's fine. That's my position.
What you are saying I think is completely different discussion. I know people that you are referring to and you cannot change them. Some people love ignorance but yeah I agree it's impacting a lot of people but I don't think it's a ai issue, it's a people issue.
This is some boomer-tier gatekeeping and just another "back in my day, things were better because..."
The people who aren't problem solving beyond typing something into a chat bot are the same people who wouldn't have done so before the chat bot existed.
You can absolutely find similar complaints about the internet being invented, or search engines, or any other technological expansion in the past entire human history.
Agreed, you absolutely can find similar complaints about search engines, and there were similar fools back then who relied wholesale on search results and nothing further.
I'm looking for people who can problem-solve, not just click-click-next use tools. When search engines made life easier, the folks who didn't try anything past searching google just didn't advance in tech fields if they couldn't get it done. The people I'm talking about now are walking into jobs that require thinking while literally proclaiming that they let something else do the thinking for them.
What am I supposed to do with a tech who can't get past an ansible deployment because he couldn't figure out how to find and use the ansible wiki? As I plainly said, it's not the technology, it's the culture.
Your "boomer" take on this isn't valid because I'm also getting the AI-bro talk from idiots my age as well.
Last, I'd like to point out that you don't know what gatekeeping means. Maybe chatgpt can help you.
I do find it amusing that “AI Bros” seems to have very little literacy of how the instruct LLM tools actually work, even at the executive level of companies. It reflects the sort of “confident ignorance” you see with being unable to look up documentation and such.
I find this frustrating because I consider myself a local LLM tinkerer and find it… Isolating. I love the problem solving loop and hammering gritty details out to coax decent tokens out quickly, or getting it to use documentation/forced syntax effectively, or assembling a bizzare dataset for some weird style or dialect, and that’s like antithetical to the culture.
I guess what I’m saying is there are problem solvers who use LLMs. Maybe they’re pink elephants.
Barring terrible company policy, those people who can't do more than allow the AI to think for them will find themselves out of a job pretty quickly if they can't do the work themselves.
Bad employees and stupid people will always be stupid, the newest tech isn't the cause of that. Maybe it lowers the bar of entry a bit?
Lastly, you're clearly gatekeeping "the ability to critically think" based on some arbitrary conditions you made up based on "how things used to be", so to speak. Maybe you could have used your superior boomer wisdom to figure that one out.