it’s getting to the point where I notice people say it a lot, especially IRL now for whatever reason recently.
And for clarity I’m not in research or anything, so these people just mean ‘LLM/image gen’, not utilities like OCR or (usually not) transcription.
Some have argued it’s just more efficient (which I can kind of get), while others think you’re actively hindering your intelligence somehow.
On the first point:
I’ve tried it occasionally to see how it compares to my own skill, and while it produces a functional result, it’s always very derivative work to the point where you can find things with the exact same names of other ‘public’ (but not libre) works, and often isn’t the ideal solution to what it targets. So I can see how you can get things out of it, but it never felt really that profound to me.
But for the second… isn’t this supposed to be the tool for people to do things they aren’t experienced in? If anything, you probably need to be able to understand how to write pertaining to the task so the token probabilities are biased toward writing from that area.
And even then, if all you end up doing is prompting AI, then wouldn’t you ultimately serve no purpose outside of being glorified QA?
I guess I’m trying to figure out what exactly non-users would be ‘falling behind’ in that affects them more than those who use AI?
This will likely get lost in the sea of comments here… But my opinion to “getting left behind if you don’t know how to use ai” is simply, “no, you’ll be left behind if you don’t know how to engineer ai.” everyone who uses “ai”'s end product will be in the same playing field, if you don’t know how to build and engineer it, then you’re in the same boat as everyone else who knows how to put together a sentence and a question.
If you know how to build a custom ai engine that can do a specific task for a specific field, then you’ll be ahead. If you know how to write out a question to prompt ai, then you can speak a language, congrats, you’re just like everyone else around you. Along with that, if you don’t know anything about the things you’re asking the ai about, then you don’t know how to determine whether it’s giving you accurate information, which makes it useless, maybe not 100% useless, but like 85% useless it something. Can you build a house with a hammer alone? No. You need materials, you need ways to cut wood, you need structural knowledge about building a house before you can build a safe livable house and more than one tool in the tool box.
Idk, it’s one of those things that just kind of feels like something someone would say about something they were told they should say about that thing. This isn’t like the invention of personal computers. I think it’s much more simple then that when it comes to how we interact with it, the impressive knowledge is more about how to engineer it, and how to deploy it for specific use cases. Like the difference between building an efficient refrigerator and using one.
The other problem with not knowing how to build and engineer and deploy your own locally run ai, is that you will become dependant on this 3rd party service and end up paying loads of money for something you wouldn’t have had to if you weren’t “left behind”. That’s what the big corps are hoping happens with all this free access or cheap access, it’s all a scheme to get everyone hooked, so they can pull the rug out from under em and force them to pay astronomical amounts of money to cover the losses they’ve been gambling with this whole time. Also just my opinion but, seems like a pretty decent theory to me lol.
Just speaking into the void here, don’t really expect any replies from me, I don’t have that much more to offer, just figured why not share my thoughts on the subject, it’s one everyone seems to be taking about at the moment. I’ll definitely read anyone’s replies though ❤️