Is there anything actually useful or novel about "AI"?
Feel like we've got a lot of tech savvy people here seems like a good place to ask. Basically as a dumb guy that reads the news it seems like everyone that lost their mind (and savings) on crypto just pivoted to AI. In addition to that you've got all these people invested in AI companies running around with flashlights under their chins like "bro this is so scary how good we made this thing". Seems like bullshit.
I've seen people generating bits of programming with it which seems useful but idk man. Coming from CNC I don't think I'd just send it with some chatgpt code. Is it all hype? Is there something actually useful under there?
There are other ML models out there for all kinds of purposes. I heard someone made one at one point that could detect certain types of cancer from a cough
Copilot is pretty useful when programming as it is basically like what IDEs normally do (automatically generating boilerplate) but supercharged
As far as generating code is concerned it's never going to beat actually knowing what you're doing in a language for more complex stuff but it allows you to generate code for languages you're not familiar with
I use it all the time at work when I'm asked to write DAX because it's not particularly complex logic but the syntax makes me want to impale my face with a screwdriver
This is a good point. LLMs are the current big thing, but a few years ago it was convolutional nets for image processing. It might be something totally different in another few.