(despite david simon being a shitlib)
"You’re right, this is great! It’s never been so easy to make sure I’m not just throwing up stale “art by committee” tropes and drivel. What a time saver! Wait, you meant to actually use them?
"NPR is a result code on the Voight-Kampff test, it means No Personhood Readings
I like this place, I see it on /all/ often with some good stuff (I’ve never listened to the podcast… yet?) but this reads like a foreign language to me, or maybe I’m having a stroke?!
it’s a movie reference
clip from Blade Runner (1982) based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
I always say with AI “don’t they have anything more important to automate?”
If we are told that art is silly and only a lucky few can ever make a career out of it, then why is it that automating art is top priority?
the only use of ai i think is probably remotely useful is programmers using it to help write new code. not people who aren’t experienced at software development mind you, they don’t get too much of chatgpt, but someone that knows what they’re doing with copilot to copy-paste someone’s completely correct implementation, that seems useful. at least to people i’ve talked to.
More like helping programmers write e-mails to needy project managers who need a status update on that feature ticket every 11 hemiseconds
IMO no, for two reasons:
- reading code is harder than writing it. If the AI writes you a standard implementation, you still have to read it to make sure it’s correct. So that’s more work than just doing it yourself
- AI will produce code that looks right. Since it can’t understand anything that’s all it does, next most likely token == most correct-looking solution. But when the obvious solution is not the right one, you now have deceptively incorrect code, specifically and solely designed to look correct.
I’ve never used Copilot myself but pair programmed with someone who used it, and it seemed like he spent more time messing with the output than it would have taken to write it himself.
