That’s why I can’t help but scoff when people say “It’s not real artificial intelligence, it’s just a stochastic parrot”. Like my dude, have you ever interacted with the average person?
The poorly educated probably.
Smarter than my cousin Larry? Psht. There’s a boxwood bush outside my bedroom window that’s smarter than cousin Larry.
But realistically, the machines might be smarter than the average poorly motivated human in certain criteria. Hard to take anybody seriously that disagrees with that position.
On the other hand, an average human with sufficient and proper motivation? I’m still on team people in that case.
already smart as managers thats why they so popular with management. Of course they will never be actually able to replace management cuz of “reasons”
There’s a common saying in reference to why designing bear-proof campground trash cans is so hard: there’s a serious overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans
I mean by that bar, even copilot has 55% of the US beat :P
Yeah but so does my dog.
Definitely wanna raise that number a bit
Okay 55%
I just pulled it from
54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).
If we looped in science deniers, climage deniers, flat earthers and chemtrails it could go quite high, but that’s a difficult task as many of those overlap in the <6th grade venn diagram.
People always complain about AI slop, but the fact of the matter is, even a shitty AI produces better output than what the majority of people are capable of.
yeah but I don’t hire those people
That majority of people that are worse than AI slop are also not producing anything, so we’re not flooded with human slop. And when they do, we’re supportive because you need to practice producing bad stuff before you can start producing good stuff.
If humans produced slop at the same rate as AI, I guarantee you that everyone will be complaining about it just the same.
if the majority of people were incapable of meeting the standard of AI, then AI wouldn’t have enough data to train on to be better than the majority. it’s a lossy database of things that already exist, it cannot create novelty or surpass its training set.
Most people can’t do that either.
AI doesn’t produce data suitable for training AI. It’s a huge problem when AI generated slop makes its way into the training set because it generally degrades the quality of the model. Like a photocopy of a photocopy.
So where is all the data its trained on to surpass most people come from? Do you think they’re curating what they feed it based on IQ scores or something? Verifying accuracy, competency, etc? Or are you aware they just turn on the reddit/stackoverflow/github/etc. scrapers and start pumping them full of unfiltered 100% pure grade A internet bullshit?
Yes, I’m aware of that. But you don’t seem to be aware of the fact that most cultural output (and yes, that includes Reddit shitposts) is produced by a small minority of people. Most people never contribute anything. So however shit the AI slop may be (which I’m not in any way denying), it’s still better than what the majority of people can manage. Just look at the percentage of people that are functionally illiterate.
Im sorry dude but if your argument is reddit and stackoverflow are the basis for being “better than what the majority of people can manage” then I just have to respectfully disagree.
Any person without training is infinitely better than an AI without training data.
A person without training data world be a blathering idiot. Any word you’ve ever heard, anything you’ve ever seen, smelled or otherwise perceived is data that was used to train the neural network in your head. And that’s not counting the billions of years it took to hardwire the hardwired bits.
Only if you’re not familiar with the act of producing what the AI is trying to emulate the production of.
Yeah, just try to get the average person to write an email that’s legible, concise and to the point.
If you’ve ever read an AI email, they aren’t capable of that either. It’s a meme at this point that people use AI to write an email, which becomes far too long, and the reader uses AI to make it shorter. AI does not do concise and to the point.
Any literate person can do that? Despite the public education systems best efforts to train us all in such a manner as to overly pad everything out with an excessive quantity of superfluous filler words, many of which add nothing to the information communicated and may even continue long after the point is made.
I have terrible news for you; people are not generally literate then.
I’m seriously questioning what you consider good, then. That’s the reason people call it “slop”. It’s not good.
Your concept of human being is questionable.
What do you mean? Are you saying stupid people aren’t real human beings?
