alt Hacker NewsI'm an AI skeptic but this is AI doing its job.
Because there's AI as in "letting ChatGPT do the hard bits of programming or writing for me", for which it is woefully unsuited, and there's AI as in using machine learning as a statistical approach, which it fundamentally is. It's something you can pour data into and let the machine find how the data clump together, so you can investigate potential causative relationships the Mark I eyeball might have missed.
I'm excited for the possibilities these uses of AI might bring.
Agreed. I have barely any enthusiasm in the former aside from potential time savings, but have always been fascinated in the applications of what I think of as scientific deep large scale pattern matching in domains that aren't practical to tackle with raw human labor.