AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
Army general: Here's $2 billion in taxpayer dollars that we took from the health care system for a prototype that can go out and kill brown people near oil.
The sad part, as a software dev, is that it's actually kinda cool that we trained a dog to talk. That's new and cool! And there's some interesting applications for learning more about dogs!
CEOs and VCs out here ruining all the good computer science.
Right, like I love the possibilities that AI gives us but there's a lot of folks out here that are ready to try to use it either A) way before it's at the point of doing what they want it to do or B) want it to do things it's absolutely not capable of doing.
Medical diagnosis is unfortunately something AI actually excels at. Excel being the operative word, it can look at a spreadsheet where a doctor will just tell you to lose/gain weight.
"AI will make everything cheaper" - some AI bro.
I am still waiting for a single example of that, that isn't based on gen AI flood spamming. Are train tickets cheaper because they use AI now and kicked out a bunch of people? I dont think so.
