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[–] 42 points 4 days ago (6 children)

As a trans woman, i know a lot of girls and nonbinary beings who work in tech and almost all of them loathe the push towards AI (the few that don't are extremely sus, they are also the only ones making bank). It has gotten so bad that one of them recently changed to a different career because it couldn't stand this anymore. Like, it was neck-deep in burnout so bad it regularly had to take sick leave.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

    I was being pressured to make my workflow ai centric when I was let go from my last job and I was one of only two people there who refused to put a high level of trust into what the chatbot was spitting out (it was making very clear errors and often was just hallucinating in superficially convincing ways.) I've heard they have gotten good at code generation but this was a different kind of engineering anyway and one where safety was a huge concern. I ended up being laid off probably in part because of that.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    It legit boggles my mind that people are harrowing this as some sort of grand achievement. They’re supplying these things with unimaginable amounts of compute than asking them to make predictions based on an even more unimaginable amount of data

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    And it's still an unimaginably small sample of what it would need to operate accurately under the approach they're using.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    What's the problem? We feed the computer the sun and it'll solve all our problems... Which will also include needing a new sun because of the aforementioned giving the sun to the computer to solve our problems. But don't worry!! It can fix it all for us!

    this-is-fine

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