Comment by tootie
4 years ago
Contrarian take: AI continues to fizzle. ChatGPT is very impressive but so were the last ten breakthroughs in AI and none of them have proven very compelling. At least not for consumers. We'll see advances in some business processes related to text processing but that's about it. Who is going to make practical use of AI art? Maybe the low-end gaming market? I'm also bearish on writing even for low-touch marketing copy. If you've ever sat in a meeting to discuss marketing copy you'd know writing takes up about 1% of the cost and the rest is debate.
OpenAI is the apotheosis of regression analysis. It can only repackage what humans have already created. Over reliance will absolutely stultify every creative endeavor and we'll be stuck in a loop. I foresee a lot of adoption followed by a lot of disillusionment.
All that being said, I do believe it's only a matter of time before all that happens. Just not 2023.
On Linux VM, if a program is given root privilege and it just execute whatever command ChatGPT spit out, then you'll got hell a problem solver/havoc wreaker.
The hit rate of AI is still in that phase of being right almost all the time and being spectacularly wrong 2% of the time. So actually pretty close to a good DevOps engineer.