alt Hacker NewsJust want to say upfront: this mindset is completely baffling to me.
Someone gives you a hammer. You've never seen one before. They tell you it's a great new tool with so many ways to use it. So you hook a bag on both ends and use it to carry your groceries home.
You hear lots of people are using their own hammers to make furniture and fix things around the home.
Your response is "I accept what you say about the best way to use these hammers. But my worry is that there is nothing that requires people to use them in that way."
These things are not intelligent. They're just tools. If you don't use a guide with your band saw, you aren't going to get straight cuts. If you want straight cuts from your AI, you need the right structure around it to keep it on track.
Incidentally, those structures are also the sorts of things that greatly benefit human programmers.
"These things are not intelligent. They're just tools."
Correct. But they are being marketed as being intelligent and can easily convince a casual observer that they are through the confidence of their responses. I think that's a problem. I think AI companies are encouraging people to use these tools irresponsibly. I think the tools should be improved so they can't be misused.
"Incidentally, those structures are also the sorts of things that greatly benefit human programmers."
Correct. And that's why I have testing in place and why I used it to show that the race condition had been introduced.