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If you read the scientist's original article (linked to from this article), he seems to have learned very little from the experience, except to be more careful while continuing to use the LLM. He compares it to alchemy, which he dubs "pre-science".
He says:
(though he doesn't tell us what the 'something else' was). Then later,
You're good, I have enough secondhand embarrassment for the both of us.
That statement terrifies me, I very seldom use LLMs, maybe one question in a month, and that question is usually when I have exhausted the other alternatives.
Example, last week I attended an airshow and needed to program my radio scanner to a local radiostation where they rebroadcast the announcer to enable you to hear it clearly rather than through the annoying speakers.
And I just could not get my Icom IC-R6 to work, it would randomly change radio modes as I was tuning, I also had trouble setting the tuning steps correctly.
I read the manual, but I could not figure it out, so I caved and asked chatgpt, and got the help I needed in quick order.
I am certain that I would have figured it out on my own, but it would have taken far longer.
Anyway, I am always careful to limit my interaction with LLMs/AI as I start feeling my skills stagnating and even reducing as I use it.
Fucking idiot.
So he's been lost to AI psychosis. Cool.
I'm afraid so. The overall tone of his article is a bit manic and he seems really excited about his "alchemy" metaphor, as if its history somehow predicts that AI will become a good, useful thing--while repeatedly admitting that alchemy was totally unrealistic and a complete failure.
But do they do it correctly? Who is checking?
Saying this immediately after "I used to do all the work myself, but now I don't."
"I'd rather be wrong than do my own research."
Does he know LLMs don't think?
Did AI tell him that? Idiot.
Appealing to popularity suggests he is not thinking for himself. Too many people are outsourcing their thinking to unreliable software in much the same way that religious people outsource their morality to unreliable books.
"Hundreds of millions of people reach for these tools every day, and they are not idiots" Citation needed
Hundreds of millions of people reach for cigarettes every day, and they can't be wrong
Yeah, have they met people? We're absolute morons.
It really makes me sad to see actual people who are not under corporate pressure, write this out.
Wow. He fucked up, in front of his colleagues, and still drew the wrong conclusion?
The last couple of lines has me thinking this is satirical/sarcasm:
"...Following his embarrassing slip-up in February, Sutter vowed that he works “differently now” and is ready to immediately “distrust” anything an AI says" and "...when we pasted his latest piece for Nautilus into AI detecting tool Pangram — which is far from perfect — it informed us that 56 percent of the text appeared to be written by an AI".