Built on unearned hype.

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    It’s not for you. Its for corporations who want to fire half their staff and replace them with an algorithm. That’s why it has such a high valuation.

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      Those corporations are about to find out the fun way that these algorithms, in their current and near-future states, cannot replace human beings.

      Well, except for maybe lazy copywriters who pump out pointless listicles and executives who do - whatever it is they do - but any non-trivial task requiring creativity and understanding is beyond these tools.

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        You’re assuming that they care about running a viable service or product.

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          The hope is that their customers care. Or their customer’s customers.

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          The “corporation” might care. The Senior Vice Director of Data Intelligence who made the decision and got $50k bonus for it does not

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        • Computers might be good at numbers and typesetting, but we’ll always need human secretaries and phone operators to keep things running.
        • They might be able to beat a novice, but no computer will ever beat a human grandmaster at chess.
        • Okay, then they can’t beat humans at Go or poker.
        • Any non-trivial task requiring creativity and understanding is beyond these tools. ← you are here
        • AI-run corporations will never be able to outcompete ones with ones with human boards and CEOs.
        • An AI scriptwriter could never win an Oscar.
        • I’m voting for the human candidate for president, I don’t think the AI one is up to the task.
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      An AI chatbot for a cloud service I use helped me find the right documentation for setting up SSO. It’s not all bad. But the way it’s pushed is bad.