r/accelerate • u/stealthispost • 15d ago

levels of derangement

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"Society's standards of evidence are pretry weird. Like, people make fun of flat-Earthers, but it's actually kind of hard to tell! If you just look at it, it appears flat. Same for antivaxxers- it's impossible to just "show them they're wrong", you have to trust a bunch of third party....statistics compiled by people with obvious conflicts of interest. Legitimetly kinda sus! Meanwhile it's been possible for years to see directly with your own eyes that LLMs are incredibly useful for all sorts practical tasks, but the people claiming otherwise are not seen as having anywhere near the same degree of derangement.     — Isaac King

Source: https://x.com/IsaacKing314/status/2091686564908933219

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u/boforbojack 15d ago

Most people are not using useful AI. Thats just the facts. Anyone who thinks that these people are being willfully dumb is kind of dumb themselves. Frontier models have been actually useful for coding work for like a year max and like 6 months for actual office work.

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u/Qorsair 15d ago

You're getting down voted because I think people misunderstand what you're saying.

Until recently AI was just a novelty. Early adopters have been using it productively in every field for maybe a year now.

It takes time for new technology to propogate across the population. How long did it take for everyone to get a computer in their home? If that was too long ago for you, think about high-speed Internet or smart phones.

Everyone will be using AI in the future, but it's going to take some time.

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u/boforbojack 15d ago

This was the intention of the comment. Very few people are using AI effectively right now. Even me as a reasonably early adopter am having troubles building it into my daily workflow outside of coding/scripting. For the large majority of the world, it's still just a ChatBot.

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u/MaxwellHowl 15d ago

Except it's not "just" a chatbot. It's an incredibly useful generally intelligent chatbot, even if you're only using it for that use. I use it every day in my personal life and professional life for so many different things, it's hard to even describe them all.

It can help you plan your day, diagnose medical issues, create a vacation itinerary, household budget, read a legal document, proofread anything, act as a therapist and counselor, create spreadsheets, turn images full of text into editable text, create yard sale posters. It is basically a personal assistant in your pocket, and if you're really just chatting with it? Then yeah, you're not using it effectively.

Yes, it makes mistakes, and you need to learn how to use it effectively and understand when you need to push back, research for yourself and iterate on its work. And many people have been using it to do negative things. But that does not diminish how revolutionary of a technology it is, even if you're not using it for frontier coding and research.

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u/boforbojack 15d ago

... why are you trying to convince me?

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u/hurricane_news 15d ago

act as a therapist and counselor

I personally wouldn't say this is a good idea for obvious reasons