There was an Indian restaurant I used to go to in Minneapolis. On my first visit, I asked them to make it “Indian hot, times two.” The waiter kinda laughed at me, but I assured him I was serious. He shrugged, and took the order.

While eating it, the entire kitchen and wait staff kept peeking watching me to see what would happen.

It was delicious, and I damned near licked the plate clean.

I know this sounds like an “and then everybody clapped” story, but I swear to Zeus.

When X-rays were first discovered in 1896 they were used EVERYWHERE. This is what humans do. AI is not unique or special in this regard. A surprising number of people got radiation sickness because of the over-use of the technology.

And again. Just because you have yet to personally experience a use for a technology does not mean the technology is bad or useless. There is undoubtedly widespread abuse, but this doesn’t diminish the cases in which it is useful.

Enforce regulation, charge those who abuse it, but the universal claim of “This is bad,” doesn’t help the cause. It just serves to build mindless tribal hate.

Not defending the obsession with corpo-chatbots. But a lot of the development is coming purely from hobbyists doing it because it’s fun to experiment with new technology.

And there have been developments using branches of the tech to do surprising things, such as using genomic sequences instead of normal human language. Still an LLM, but instead of doing auto-correct/auto-complete responses in English, it fills in genomic sequences.

That’s the same argument creationists make against evolution.

The first versions of anything are never comparable to highly developed versions.

The simplest cell today is VASTLY more complex than the first protocell that existed on the planet.

Also, that last line is an appeal to personal experience. If I could show you a single example of a single agent being genuinely useful would you change your mind? Or have you decided carte blanche?

Honestly, I develop mine just because it’s fun experimenting with the technology. Quite often it takes more effort to teach it how to do a task than doing the task myself would require. But it’s a fun challenge.

Wow, that’s something only a true friend would say! Too bad about the unpopularity… Goodbye forever 🙂

I’m downvoting you too, sorry. I’m not sure why, but it seems like the popular people are doing it, and I just want to fit in. We can still be friends in secret if you’d like.