OpenAI, ChatGPT and Generative AI

[AmareIsGod]

Maybe the kids are going to be all right after all. This one is from the U of A graduation.

I work in AI and I hate AI. It's the best life.

[Mori Chu]

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[Mori Chu]

[Kryptonic]

A.i. isn’t going anywhere and these are just the hiccups society will work through…. The problem with a.i. is the public perception that it’ll take everyone’s job. Its fundamental best use is in assisting humans with tasks, not straight up replacing people. Could it reduce workload and labor costs, sure but it’s ultimately not going to get rid of people, just make us more efficient at figuring out problems.

[Superbone]

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I was impressed how it handled the slip on the stairs the first time...

[Superbone]

A.i. isn’t going anywhere and these are just the hiccups society will work through…. The problem with a.i. is the public perception that it’ll take everyone’s job. Its fundamental best use is in assisting humans with tasks, not straight up replacing people. Could it reduce workload and labor costs, sure but it’s ultimately not going to get rid of people, just make us more efficient at figuring out problems.

I don't know. Programmers brains are turning to mush. AI does everything for them now. Now they spend their time trying to understand how the AI generated program works and debug it. Probably with the same AI. It will take less programmers with the AI doing the brunt of the work. So, less programming jobs. They are now just glorified AI baby sitters.

[Superbone]

What A.I. Did to My College Class

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/opin ... ation.html

Here's an excerpt:

Even in the heart of the Silicon Valley techno-utopia, most people know that our tech is bad for us, or at least that it can be. A.I. is often a tremendous productivity boost, yet my friends increasingly refer to both short-form video and their A.I. chat logs in the language of addiction. It’s becoming baked in, shaping our generational character. We are a digital generation, growing only more attached to the virtual world.

The technology behind A.I. is wickedly clever, and back when large language models were still a research experiment — before they propped up the U.S. economy — my friends and I bubbled with excitement. I remember trying to explain to my grandfather, who has since died, that “backpropagation,” a technique vital to A.I., grew out of attempts to quantitatively prove Freud’s theories about the “flow of psychic energy.” I don’t think I really sold Gramps on why he should care — but to me, the development of A.I. was human genius at its finest, and I couldn’t wait to open the arXiv links people would text me containing the latest and greatest research. The output of a model didn’t matter anywhere near as much as how it was designed.

Now, the opposite is true. A.I. is an application that people actually rely on, and companies have become less and less transparent about its design. What counts is the immediate response you receive when you send a reading to ChatGPT to be summarized on your walk to class. Most students call OpenAI’s model “Chat.” Many refer to it familiarly, consulting with Chat repeatedly over the course of a day, letting it decide how to text a situationship and confidently repeating hallucinated assertions while in line at the coffee shop. For years, online livestreamers have used the word “Chat” to interact with their audiences, asking commenters to tell them what choices to make in video games. That students now use the same name for A.I. feels appropriate. What really is the distinction between a nameless, faceless human you’ll never meet except over the internet and a statistical approximation of the same thing?
The internet has already allowed us to feel more connected than ever while becoming lonelier than ever. A.I. lets us cut out the human part of human interaction entirely.

When I was sitting in a recent class on love in French fiction — exactly the kind of course that a senior takes before it all comes to an end — I listened to the first student presentation, entitled: “Applying the Gale-Shapley Algorithm to ‘The Princess of Clèves.’” The enterprising presenters sought to resolve the contretemps of the 1678 romantic novel through a computer science matching algorithm. Love was something to “be optimized.” Next to me, one student scribbled on a branded notepad from Hudson River Trading, a quantitative trading firm where fresh graduates can earn upward of $600,000 a year. Another had a sticker on her laptop: “Practice safe C.S.” The class could not have felt more Stanford.

Living on campus for the past four years has been an eye-opening journey. Higher education was not equipped for the A.I. revolution. Someday in the future the fully autonomous Clawdbots or Moltbots (or whatever people call them) will laugh to themselves about this silly interregnum when universities seemed paralyzed, trying to bridge the gap between the liberal education of yore and the future in which humans have no monopoly on intelligence.

For us, this was college.

[Mori Chu]

WSJ has an interesting article about some of the companies who went gung-ho on all their engineers using AI, now starting to see the bills come due and balking at the high costs. Some of them are beginning to ration it and ask employees to use it only when necessary / most helpful. (I don't view this as "AI has failed / sucks" and more like, "The hype is starting to settle down and people are figuring out how it is actually practical and helpful rather than forcing it into every minute of every work day."

[Mori Chu]

Here's a funny one from Yahoo Finance, about Starbucks shutting down their AI agent after it was not working well.

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[Mori Chu]

ngl, this made me laugh. I'm going to hell.

[Kryptonic]

ngl, this made me laugh. I'm going to hell.

The futures looking bright!

[Superbone]

That's how our robot overlords start. Act like clowns and then deliver the damage when we're least expecting it.

[TOO]

Humans should focus on their own intelligence, fucking idiots.

[Nodack]

I have no faith in humans. They were smart enough to figure out a lot of things no other species can remotely come close to just to get to this point but, we are flawed in so many ways. There are a lot of really good smart people that will use this for good and no doubt there will be people who will just use this to exploit other humans and are only interested in power and wealth.

Some of the top AI guys themselves seem to be worried that AI could get out of control and do some real damage. Some of them are talking about slowing down. That isn’t going to happen. It’s like the race to develop a nuclear bomb. If we don’t do it, the other guys get there first.

AI weapons? Of course. The drones in Ukraine are getting more AI by the day. Our new fighters have a pair of drone wing men. Weaponry I believe is going to get even more lethal quickly thanks to AI. Maybe Iran doesn’t need nukes to be dangerous.

Yes, I believe a lot of jobs are going bye bye thanks to AI. Andrew Yang was laughed at when he suggested a universal basic income of $1000 a month. It could be the future when most humans aren’t needed.

“Because the United Federation of Planets is an advanced, post-scarcity society, citizens don't need to work to survive. Instead, they work out of passion, self-improvement, and a desire to contribute to the community, often choosing artisanal or highly specialized roles.”

AI is here and like solar and EV’s they aren’t going away anytime soon. I use AI to make a lot of images and videos that play during our performances and people love it. AI can make music really well already. A lot of new top songs on the charts are 100% and most people don’t even know. Watching an AI concert is pretty boring. Maybe if AI robots were playing instruments on live performances while doing cirque du Soleil on a high wire it could be entertaining.

Years ago I dabbled in web pages when you had to put the code in to get what you want. A total pain in the ass. Now there are many AI web page makers. You answer a few questions about your business and it takes care of the rest.

“No, AI did not invent the initial wave of COVID-19 vaccines or treatments, but it played a massive supporting role. While traditional scientific methods were used to create the first generation of approved medicines, scientists are currently testing a fundamentally new, universal coronavirus vaccine designed entirely by artificial intelligence.”

Should they regulate this stuff? Right now they have thrown all caution to the wind and it’s all gas, no brakes. I believe at some point in the near future something bad will happen as a result of AI getting out of hand, forcing them to think twice. Hopefully it won’t be too late. More than likely I believe it will be humans using AI to steal or harm other humans. There are already so many people trying to scam other people out there. AI will make their scams even more sophisticated and harder to detect.

Where all this goes is anyone’s guess.

[Superbone]

Good to hear from you, 'Dack! Been a long time. That was a good read. Let's hope AI can solve cancer in our lifetimes. I'm looking forward to autonomous cars where I can relax in the back seat and read, listen to music, and nap, while it takes me to San Diego for the Summer.

[Nodack]

I’m sure you miss my long winded posts. Cancer solved would mean a lot more people living longer drawing Social Security. We aren’t meant to live forever. Cancer does suck. My family and friends have had a lot of experience with cancer.

I have taken a a few long trips and let the Tesla do most of the driving. So much more relaxing. It’s hard to drive a regular car now. Can’t go back.