Clearly said, yet the general sentiment awakens in me a feeling more gothic horror than bright futurism. I am stuck with wonder and worry at the question of how rapidly this stuff will infiltrate into the global tech supply chain, and the eventual consequences of misguided trust.
To my eye, too much current AI and related tech are just exaggerated versions of magic 8-balls, Ouija boards, horoscopes, or Weizenbaum's ELIZA. The fundamental problem is people personifying these toys and letting their guard down. Human instincts take over and people effectively social engineer themselves, putting trust in plausible fictions.
It's not just LLMs though. It's been a long time coming, the way modern tech platforms have been exaggerating their capability with smoke and mirrors UX tricks, where a gleaming facade promises more reality and truth than it actually delivers. Individual users and user populations are left to soak up the errors and omissions and convince themselves everything is working as it should.
Someday, maybe, anthropologists will look back on us and recognize something like cargo cults. When we kept going through the motions of Search and Retrieval even though real information was no longer coming in for a landing.
Clearly said, yet the general sentiment awakens in me a feeling more gothic horror than bright futurism. I am stuck with wonder and worry at the question of how rapidly this stuff will infiltrate into the global tech supply chain, and the eventual consequences of misguided trust.
To my eye, too much current AI and related tech are just exaggerated versions of magic 8-balls, Ouija boards, horoscopes, or Weizenbaum's ELIZA. The fundamental problem is people personifying these toys and letting their guard down. Human instincts take over and people effectively social engineer themselves, putting trust in plausible fictions.
It's not just LLMs though. It's been a long time coming, the way modern tech platforms have been exaggerating their capability with smoke and mirrors UX tricks, where a gleaming facade promises more reality and truth than it actually delivers. Individual users and user populations are left to soak up the errors and omissions and convince themselves everything is working as it should.
Someday, maybe, anthropologists will look back on us and recognize something like cargo cults. When we kept going through the motions of Search and Retrieval even though real information was no longer coming in for a landing.