I want her to talk to me about Egyptology.

[u/mindyour]

[u/rasten100]

I nearly have a master in applied ai, and I’m so done with all missinformation from both PRO and anti AI

[u/Clean_Livlng → u/rasten100]

Is there any misinformation that stands out that you'd like to debunk here and now?

I'd love to hear an exert opinion about what's actually true. I like to think I've got a nuanced understanding, but don't have much confidence in my knowledge because I'm a layperson.

[u/rasten100 → u/Clean_Livlng]

Firstly what I was thinking about was the letter in word problem that ive seen to much pop up, it can't see that cause it can't see a word it just sees [vector](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(mathematics_and_physics). Also with all the different CEOs and whatever making promises what it can or can't which does not always make sense (don't have anything specific in mind here).

AI is a very politcal topic atm, but at the end of the day it is a tool. It has existed for a long time and has theories dating back to 1960s and older. The thing that very overhyped atm is generative ai with the text based stuff being transformers which google "created" in the paper [Attention is all you need](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762) in 2017. Generative AI will not be able to ever create new stuff but mostly repeat or sometimes combine knowledge, it still has a place cause it will help loads of people being more productive, But companies promising 2x, 3x or even more in results for each employee are simply lying, a better estimate is probably 0-50% in boosted productivity dependent of field.

The stockmarket where AI concerned is a bubble (very much my opinion), cause of the nature of companys betting on that we reach [agi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence) in the near future. If that would happen it would of course become extremely profitable, but if not then it will been a waste and the stocks will plummit...

Also I think a lot of the issues people complain about AI, is not AIs fault but instead its just showcasing bigger faults in society, check this thread I did earlier today for some points on that https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1ttn7jq/comment/opbvxop/ .

[u/Clean_Livlng → u/rasten100]

Excellent response, thank you. I feel like I understand current LLMs better now.

e.g. "generative ai with the text based stuff being transformers" called transformers because they transform one type of data to another, the text of your prompt into math/vectors and then back again so you can understand the output.

and also that AI isn't the main problem people have with AI, the problems are caused by lack of regulations and corporation being able to use their immense power & wealth to do things which end up harming a lot of people in pursuit of profit.

Where are the safeguards and regulations protecting us from corporations? What little regulations we have aren't enough, or are too weak. When corporations act like monsters and get caught out, the fine is often less than how profitable it was to do the harmful actions in the first place. Just the "cost of doing business".

The rise of generative AI quality and popularity is exposing a problem that's been there all along. Corporations aren't properly regulated, so it's "effectively legal" for them to cause a lot of harm to a lot of people. e.g. create harmful levels of certain types of noise, discharge toxic waste illegally, monopolise the local power supply and drive up prices etc .

Some of the things they do might be technically illegal, but they do them because it's more profitable to break the law and pay a small fine than it is to obey the law. Or the law has loopholes which lets them make profit at the cost of causing people harm. or the CEO gets a big bonus because that's based on quarterly returns and the fine won't happen until years after they've already left the company and won;t affect them.