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Comment by skybrian

5 days ago

How much of this is due to selective attention on the problems rather than the benefits?

It’s just one person’s story, but I thought this was pretty good:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/our-ai-midwife

It may work well for them, but is it replicable? Or is it a lottery winner trying to reverse explain the win?

For a tool to be deemed useful, the benefits needs to be generally applicable while the cons needs to be accidental or be reduced enough to not be immediately harmful.

  • It's just one person's story, though a dramatic one. But I think it puts us back at square one: "sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad."

    There would need to be a lot of studies to show the overall impact. The people dwelling on the harms of AI aren't doing that.