[__loam]

I'm glad I got my degrees before people starting trying to integrate bullshit generators into my education. I've been really frustrated with the conversation about the potential applications for this technology. These chatbots have no relationship with the truth or with knowledge, and are designed to agree with users and act accommodating regardless of how wrong someone is. We're talking about putting this tech between patients and doctors, students and teachers and meanwhile McDonald's is rolling back deployments because it can't even take a fast food order accurately.

[Merik]

I think you’re confusing the technology with a product developed using that technology. The prevalence of poorly implemented products or the lack of fit of some products to a particular target market, do not inherently provide evidence for conclusions about the technology itself.

[xanderlewis]

The lack of successful implementation is surely at least evidence that the technology might not be living up to the hype, though — no?

It’s like “but that wasn’t real communism”.