alt Hacker NewsThis is not just another abstraction. It is something fundamentally different because it is a jump away from deterministic, transparent processes to a probabilistic black box. It's not like a jump from orality to books to digital media, or hand written arithmetic to calculators to programs. These abstractions were solid and dependable and could be relied upon to tackle harder problems. This abstraction is beyond leaky.
The assumption that "that person understands the issue better than you" is bold when the best AI summaries will often give back completely false summaries on any given issue.
You can make many of the same criticisms about television, or smartphones, or the internet. And indeed, all of those and many other technologies have had terrible effects. But the way to deal with that is to learn and teach how to use them responsibly, with conscious intent. It's certainly true that left to themselves, most people won't do that.
> These abstractions were solid and dependable and could be relied upon to tackle harder problems. This abstraction is beyond leaky.
Much like humans? This is an example of what I'm referring to. Unless you spend the effort to learn how to use the models effectively, you're going to have to wait until others do that for you. In the meantime, a disconnect arises because you're not seeing the benefits because you're not able to use them effectively. But other people are using them effectively and seeing significant benefits.