• @Vigge93
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    114 hours ago

    You are ignoring ALL of the of the positive applications of AI from several decades of development, and only focusing on the negative aspects of generative AI.

    Here is a non-exhaustive list of some applications:

    • In healthcare as a tool for earlier detection and prevention of certain diseases
    • For anomaly detection in intrusion detection system, protecting web servers
    • Disaster relief for identifying the affected areas and aiding in planning the rescue effort
    • Fall detection in e.g. phones and smartwatches that can alert medical services, especially useful for the elderly.
    • Various forecasting applications that can help plan e.g. production to reduce waste. Etc…

    There have even been a lot of good applications of generative AI, e.g. in production, especially for construction, where a generative AI can the functionally same product but with less material, while still maintaining the strength. This reduces cost of manufacturing, and also the environmental impact due to the reduced material usage.

    Does AI have its problems? Sure. Is generative AI being misused and abused? Definitely. But just because some applications are useless it doesn’t mean that the whole field is.

    A hammer can be used to murder someone, that does not mean that all hammers are murder weapons.

    • @GreenKnight23
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      23 hours ago

      give me at least two peer reviewed articles that AI has had a measurably positive impact on society over the last 24 months.

      shouldn’t be too hard for AI to come up with that, right?

      if you can do that then I’ll admit that AI has potential to become more than a crypto scam.

      • He’s already given you 5 examples of positive impact. You’re just moving the goalposts now.

        I’m happy to bash morons who abuse generative AIs in bad applications and I can acknowledge that LLM-fuelled misinformation is a problem, but don’t lump “all AI” together and then deny the very obvious positive impact other applications have had (e.g. in healthcare).

        • @[email protected]
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          138 minutes ago

          LLMs fucking suck. But there are things that don’t suck. AI chess engines have entirety changed the game, AI protein predictors have made designer drugs and nanobots come within our grasp.

          It’s just that tech bros want to grab quick cash from us peasants and that somehow equates to integrating chat gpt into everything. The most moronic of AI has become their poster child. It’s like if we asked people what a US president is like in character and everybody showed Trump to them as an example.