Fuck AI

AI is good at convincing people of things, because that's what it was designed to do by companies whose only hope of ever making money is by convincing people of things. The first thing they did with it was to use it to convince people that AI is good at actual things beyond just convincing people of things, and it was and continues to be a riotous success at that, proving the concept is completely sound. Ironically this actually leads to real use cases when your own goal is to convince other people of things, but it doesn't mean that AI is actually good at anything else.

That doesn't mean it won't have consequences though or that this is just the bubble many people hope it is. The ideology wars have begun and AI is a weapon of mass destruction.

I can't even hide my disdain for the marketers including the word "intelligence".

IT worker here as well, I think I'm the most anti-AI fellow in the place (govt secretary), none of the devs is using AI for coding, but our director uses chatgpt often to make the boring, bureaucratic texts needed to send for higher ups to ignore

I try to just keep my head down, and whenever someone even glances in my direction about an LLM, I point out that my work isn't applicable.

I feel like I have to at work, 100p. Many of my coworkers use it, and I just can't bear it myself. I don't think I've ever used AI in a professional context.

Now, in a non-professional context, like a Twitch stream, hell yeah I use AI. They can say some funny shit!

I don't embrace AI, but I don't necessarily hate it. The problem with AI is that your average user is not going to understand it. This means that they will trust LLMs to do things that LLMs aren't supposed to do. Like when people talked about how an Atari can beat ChatGPT at chess... Of course it can, the Atari program was purpose built to win at chess. ChatGPT was purpose built to aggregate text so you wouldn't have to read multiple sources to get an answer (not always the right answer, but an answer) for your query.

Not hide it, but couch and qualify why I hate it while still using it. As if I have to explain every time the context of "I hate it because I see it sucking in these ways all the time."

Except for people who are also trying to be heavy users and are simply unimpressed.

I'm trying to get a job (and failing) after a layoff at the end of last year, and maybe 1/4 of the job postings I see mention you need to be familiar with "AI." So, yeah, in interviews, when AI is brought up, I try to be pro-AI, but cautious. I even messed around with stuff like LangChain/LangGraph because I see so many job postings that require stuff like that, but the results are underwhelming. Now I'm seeing a lot of job postings that require experience in Azure's cloud AI stuff, but I'm not paying to learn that. I have "real" ML experience, and it frustrates me that many of the responses I get back from applications just want me to glue shitty LLM tools together.

Recent blog in The New Oil nails it. AI is here to stay and also, AI is being rammed in everywhere with billions being spent on it

My problem is search has become so horrible escpically when looking up tech questions. AI is ok at this at least faster then wading through outdated search results looking for the one that uses the new code.