AI is not like you and me
May 9, 2024
Meanwhile, we are under-investing in more precise, high-value applications of LLMs that treat generative A.I. models not as people but as tools. A powerful wrench to create sense out of unstructured prose. The glue of an application handling messy, real-word data. Or a drafting table for creative brainstorming, where a little randomness is an asset not a liability. If there’s a metaphor to be found in today’s AI, you’re most likely to find it on a workbench.
Source: AI is not like you and me
Don’t anthropomorphise computers, they hate that.
I can’t remember when I first heard that joke, but it was decades ago. It always brings a wry smile.
But it is a tendency, as Zach Seward observes in this excellent piece we tend to do a lot with technology, not just with AI.
But it is a limiting and fraught approach, as he discusses.
