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The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon (www.theregister.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) "Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet."

I propose a fourth: AI is now as good as it's going to get, and that's neither as good nor as bad as its fans and haters think, and you're still not going to get an A on your report.

You see, now that people have been using AI for everything and anything, they're beginning to realize that its results, while fast and sometimes useful, tend to be mediocre.

My take is LLMs can speed up some work, like paraphrasing, but all the time that gets saved is diverted to verifying the output.

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[–] AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The LLM in the most recent case had a monumental amount of context. I then gave it a file implementing a breed of hash set, asked it to explain several of the functions which it did correctly, and then asked it to convert it to a hash map implementation (an entirely trivial, grunt change, but which is too pervasive and functionality-directed for an IDE to have a neat function for this).

It spat out the source code of the tree-based map implementation in the standard library.