cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49392677

Twonks | Bluesky

Transcript

TW😶NKS

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. White text on black

AI Design Logic

Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.

Guy: Get me a cheese pizza

Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.

Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.

Guy: Wow, look what I made!

  • ButteredBread@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creator
    2·
    2 months ago

    I feel like it’s more like a pizza fatory giving pizza to people, intead of a cooker or server, while wasting the resources of the world to generate large amounts of it and trying take the job of people that previously worked in this sector. What were we talking about again?

  • RedMari@reddthat.com
    2·
    2 months ago

    This is one of my pet peeves. Argued with people on discord about it. Shook that not everyone sees it this way.

    • ReCursing@feddit.ukEnglish
      07·
      2 months ago

      Not everyone sees it this way because it;s a fucking stupid take, but didn’t worry Lemmy has a massive anti-ai hard-on so your mindless groupthink is safe here

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Explain how it’s a stupid take? This comic is exactly what AI does. You tell it to do something, it sometimes kinda does. You didn’t create anything.

        • affenlehrer@feddit.org
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’m not the guy but I guess it’s that it takes a bit of skill to tell it what kind of pizza you want and to verify it’s actually the right thing that you receive etc. So in this example the order should be pretty elaborate or there should be several panels where the waiter brings the wrong or not quite right pizza.

          While telling AI what you need is extremely easily in one regard (it’s natural language) it makes it often pretty difficult to be accurate at the same time. Also by the nature of LLMs the results are hard or impossible to predict.

          However, I think it’s a bit like printing something with a 3D printer and then saying “I made this”. The 3D printer actually made it but telling it what you want was the difficult part and at some point involved some 3D modelling or CAD or even g-code programming, tinkering with filament choices, speed and temperature settings, infill, support structures etc etc. While this is quite easy to do nowadays I remember the time where it was a big challenge to even get the damn filament to stick to the build surface. Another similarly is that it’s often not the right tool for a job. E.g. if you want the same object thousands of times or objects that have super fine structures or objects that have to withstand a lot of physical use / abuse or temperature.

          However, unlike with a 3D printer you’re pretty much guaranteed to get something when you use LLMs.

          • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            2 months ago

            Maybe it was a mistake to try and use natural language for this kind of job, it’s too fuzzy and interpretable. Maybe we need a new language, one with a much stricter syntax and no room for interpretation. If you make it simple enough, and use some natural language for important keywords, shouldn’t be too difficult to learn.

            We could call it “language for programming” or something like that.

            Eh, who am I kidding, that’ll never catch on.

    • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Since this is an AI metaphor, the restaurant didn’t hire a cook. They just found a cook with an easily accessible oven and stole a pizza from it.

    • ButteredBread@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creator
      1·
      2 months ago

      AI really is not an individual and therefore cannot really take blame. We should probably blame the owners and system that allowed it to do that, maybe some more other factors depending on the situation.