Comment by voxl
6 days ago
I have a very simple counter argument: I've tried it and it's not useful. Maybe it is useful for you. Maybe even the things you're using it for are not trivial or better served by a different tool. That's fine, I don't mind you using a tool far away from my codebase and dependency tree. It has not been useful for me, and it's very unlikely it's ever going to be.
Except that's not the argument people are making. They are arguing it will replace humans. They are arguing it will do research level mathematics. They are arguing this is the start of AGI. So if you want to put your head in the sand and ignore the greater message that is plastered everywhere then perhaps some self reflection is warranted.
You have to learn to filter out the people who say "it's going to replace human experts" and listen to the people who say "I'm a human expert and this stuff is useful to me in these ways".
> I have a very simple counter argument: I've tried it and it's not useful. Maybe it is useful for you.
Indeed but the tedious naysaying that this is arguing against is that AI isn't good full stop. They aren't saying "I tried it and it's not for me but I can see why other people would like it".