Older Gen Z which are essentially baby Millennials, debatable. From what I hear, college today has become a hellscape.
Teens & preteens (Gen Alpha), totally different story. AI slop is cringe. Eww. Possibly appreciated for its entertainment value, especially in directed roleplay (aka Character.ai), but never as "art".
The kids are alright. And this Jacob dude's full of it.
OK…and whose fault is that? 😂
I've seen this song-and-dance routine before. Big Tobacco. Big Pharma. Big Gun. It's always victim-blaming with these companies. Always.
My opinion of them could not have gotten any lower, yet somehow with these latest developments, it has.
(Also worth mentioning the author's entire modus operandi is to promote Google's Big Tech vision of AI-all-the-things and hence the blog is chock full of one just-so story after another. It's quite safe to ignore completely as pure propaganda.)
Every year…every decade…the dream of low-code/no-code emerges once again in another form. And while well-built tools with good UX can indeed help non-programmers build "simple" databases and webpages, this is not something that scales to projects which require programming expertise.
Also the examples in this article make no sense. It's already trivial to compile plain text in accessible formats like Markdown to beautiful, semantic HTML. You can already build systems which take very simple text descriptions of forms and emit actual forms. Heck, I could take input like:
Contact Me form
name
email (required)
appointment date
message
and turn that into an HTML form with zero LLMs involved. But why even do that? Someone, anyone, could drag'n'drop a form together in a couple minutes. Easy.
LLMs are constantly a (poor) solution in search of a problem. Virtually every just-so story someone can share with me about how an LLM supposedly will solve their problem, I can show examples of how else to do it. We are wasting outrageous amounts of time on technologies unfit for purpose.
Vibe revenue courtesy of their vibe business plan to acquire more vibe customers. 😎
My whole life I've desperately wondered what bank powder tastes like. Finally I'll get my chance this Yhanskgivong!
My teen has already been through the hype cycle. Was super into chatbots…until they were not. My preteen has never been even tempted, thought it was stupid from the get-go. From the mouth of babes…!
OK that's fair. And also it's not my intent to blame AI for all problems of software culture. Just seems in many ways we're going backwards as an industry.
This is now multiple times over multiple post threads where you've replied to literally whatever I have said that is critical of LLMs and directly contradicted it. I don't wish to continue such fruitless conversations.
Well the first and most obvious answer is that LLMs need to fall under an extensive regulatory framework which makes quite a number of use cases of them effectively illegal and still other use cases moderated by science-backed harm mitigation. There also need to be systemic corrections to the financial markets & business law such that a company like OpenAI in its recent or present form couldn't exist at all.
But unfortunately, that's not the world we live in (at least in America). Future generations will pay for our gross negligence, once again.