Comment by AIorNot

Comment by AIorNot 3 days ago

From the article:

“We have a class of products with deterministic cost and stochastic outputs: a built-in unresolved tension. Users insert the coin with certainty, but will be uncertain of whether they'll get back what they expect. This fundamental mismatch between deterministic mental models and probabilistic reality produces frustration — a gap the industry hasn't yet learned to bridge.”

And all the news today around AI being a bubble -

We’re still learning what we can do with these models and how to evaluate them but industry and capitalism forces our hand into building sellable products rapidly

CGMthrowaway 3 days ago

It's like putting money into a (potentially) rigged slot machine

Reply View 1 reply

ACCount37 3 days ago

It's like paying a human to do something.
Anyone who thinks humans are reliable must have never met one.

Reply View | 0 replies

[removed] 3 days ago

[deleted]

Reply View 0 replies

voidhorse 3 days ago

Precisely. There is nothing inherently wrong with LLMs and "agent" systems. There are certain classes of problems that they might be great for solving.

The problem is that the tech industry has devolved into a late-capitalist clown market supported on pure wild speculation and absurd "everything machine" marketing. This not only leads to active damage (see people falling into delusional spirals thanks to chat bots) but also inhibits us from figuring out what the actual good uses are and investing into the right applications.

Radical technology leads to behavior change. Smart phones led to behavior change, but you didn't have to beg people to buy them. LLMs are leading to behavior change but only because they are being forcibly shoved into everyone's faces and people are co-gaslighting each other into the collective hysteria that to not participate is to miss out on something big, but they can never articulate what that big thing actually is.

Reply View 0 replies