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by gremlinsinc 1276 days ago
AI: and not just deep learning, ml, etc. I mean just using AI tools in a responsible way - I don't mean bypassing safeguards, I mean recognizing when you should fact check it. In a way, reliance on AI that is imperfect might actually increase people's 'fact checking' abilities because these are severely lacking in society right now.

E.g. Be able to use chatGPT to help you code, but not if you're maybe a junior and can't discern good code from crap. It should be basically a subordinate who you do code reviews with, not the other way around, though when it's on it's game if you don't understand a concept it can explain it pretty damn good. Again that's assuming it isn't making things up.

It would be nice if there were a toggle, or slider for: truthfulness, and reliability. Where basically it has little creativity to 'create' things that don't exist, unless reliability is set to 'creative' or 'low'. If I'm writing a fiction novel, that's what I want. If I'm coding it isn't.

I think AI consulting and workflow management will be big in the coming years. It's obvious so many things that we can do with this tech to us, but to many people they just don't 'get' it, and there's money in showing them.