alt Hacker NewsThese vigorously held and loudly proclaimed opinions don't matter.
Don't waste the mental energy. They're more interested in performative ignorance and argument than anything productive. It's somewhere between trying to engage Luddites during the industrial revolution and having a reasonable discussion with /pol/ .
They'd rather cling to what they know than embrace change, or get in rhetorical zingers, and nothing will change that except a collision with reality.
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ferguess_k • today at 3:35 AM
I agree with you. People like me are revisionists. Corporations and States are already rushing to build the most advanced AI, and advancement can be measured in months. We crossed the Rubicon many years ago.
Counterpoint: in my consulting role, I've directly seen well over a billion dollars in failed AI deployments in enterprise environments. They're good at solving narrow problems, but fall apart in problem spaces exceeding roughly thirty concurrent decision points. Just today I got involved in a client's data migration where the agent (Claude) processed test data instead of the intended data identified in the prompt. It went so far as to rename the test files to match the actual source data files and proceed from there, signalling the all clear as it did. It wasn't caught until that customer, in a workshop said, and I quote "This isn't our fucking data".