Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."
@briankrebs bookmarking this one! Love the cocaine analogy!
“Coincidentally, Natalie Ponte on LinkedIn posted today: try replacing “ai” with “cocaine” in all the posts you read about it. it’s pretty funny
Let’s try it!
“My cocaine skeptic friends are all nuts, they’ll be left behind.”
“Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.” Checks out.
Cocaine doesn’t make you a business genius — it just makes you think you’re a business genius. Same for AI.”
@tweetsjen @briankrebs Also works with most posts about shitcoins/ NFTs