Alternatively, are there any publications engaging with the future potential of AI in a communist society, or in the lead up to a communist society? A lot of forum discussion used to pertain to the cybersyn project in Chile. But I feel like the LLM/ML/AI discussion is currently on a reactionary back foot.
If you’ve used it, I’m curious as to what potentials do you see from it? Where is it being used effectively where are you encountering it where you go, damn that sucks.
Where it sucks: Every single chatbot and phone tree when calling a support line ends without speaking to a flesh-and-blood agent. It makes me want to throw my phone into the woods.
Where it rules: Fulfilling bullshit work requests like OKRs with AI-generated drivel. Translation work. It tutored me through a Grad-level Statistics class that was all Asynchronous.
I learned how to code (barely) in my 30s and bullshit my way into a dev job for a big corporation. I’ve been doing it for like 5 years now and I still don’t really know what I’m doing a lot of the time. I’ve gotten really good at using copilot/gpt to check my work. Copilot especially seems to save me a lot of time. I’ll write some code and then let copilot look for improvements, simplifications, etc. It’s not quite at the level where I trust it to just write all my code from a prompt, but it can use context from the rest of the file (or other files) and really does a good job most of the time, especially if I give it a lot of info in the prompt too.
It’s GREAT at writing tests for code. Like I can just about give it something like “write some tests for this file”, but it still makes small mistakes here and there or it’ll give really generic names to things.
The predictive text function, where I can start typing out some code and it’ll give me options for the rest of it, I’ve found to be incredible, but that tech has existed for quite a while now so I’m not as impressed by it