[linuxftw]

Things AI is already better at than (many/most) humans: Customer service (chat, phone), writing software, writing docs about software, computer graphics (animation, images), driving cars.

There are plenty of uses for AI. Right now, the industry is heavily spending on training new models, improving performance of existing software and hardware, and trying to create niche products.

Power usage for inference will drop dramatically over the next decade, and more models are going to run on-device rather than in the cloud. AI is only going to become more ubiquitous, there's 0% chance it 'fails' and we return to 2020.

[sjajshha]

> Customer service (chat, phone)

Only because companies have been cutting costs for decades here. This is not a good argument for AI.

> writing software

If you mean typing characters quickly, yes. Otherwise, there’s still a lot of employed devs, with many AI companies hiring.

> writing docs about software

The most useful docs are there because they contain info you cannot determine from the code. AI is not able to do this.

> computer graphics (animation, images)

If you are producing slop, yes.

> driving cars

True, but only because of its improved physical awareness. ie it’s a mechanical gain (better eyes, ears, etc) not an intellectual one (interpreting that information). Self driving cars aren’t LLMs and not really applicable here. Entirely different field.

> AI is only going to become more ubiquitous, there's 0% chance it 'fails' and we return to 2020

Absolutely true. But not for the reasons you think.

[Am4TIfIsER0ppos]

> Customer service

An AI might be better than an indian call center but I doubt that when the AI is made by indians anyway.

> writing software, writing docs about software

I have asked AI about exactly one topic and it lied about the API of a library making up the functions I was supposed to call.

> computer graphics (animation, images)

I have indeed seen many wonderful meme images come out of the generators but that was before they got lobotomized for producing that subject matter

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And the worst part is these are all just more "software as a service" designed to remove the possibility of using a tool without approval.