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I just read (in a comment on an article about how generated code creates outages etc.) a quote by a well-known AI expert (a professor who studies innovation and startups):
"The best prompters I know can’t code at all. They “teach” the AI."

And I keep wondering what his understanding of teaching is. Like: Can you teach something that you don't understand/know how to do?

hagen terschüren

@tante i sometimes wonder if we (meaning tech journalists) made a mistake by using terms like learning, teaching and intelligence to describe things that computers do. because i feel like nobody listens to the caveat of »this isn’t like a human would do it i'm just saying it like that so that you roughly understand what’s happening here« and just takes these words at face value.

@hagen 100%. The antropomorphization does basically only PR work for big tech

You may keep saying this for a while. It doesn't matter in the long run, in my opinion. Because the more interesting thing with AI (and in the Turing test in general) is that humans cannot but ascribe sensitivity and human-like qualties to a counterpart that produces reactions which are on a certain level of complexity. (See our reactions towards our pets.) The main question therefore is not whether AI is "alive" or "can learn", in fact, "has cognition" or even "consciousness" or a "self", but that as we cannot but project these qualities given a certain type of complex behaviour we come to doubt whether we ourselves are any different from these machines. I guess this less obvious question is what drives many to fear or being skeptical about AI. If these things can be so successful, how can we be sure to be humans at all?

@simsa03 @hagen The question is not whether we're humans or not, but whether humans have cognition, consciousness, or self. Or whether there is anything but "vibes" in those terms. I don't doubt we are different from these machines, but I doubt the vibes we grant our vaunted "selves". Not sure what you mean by "successful" either.