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>>laiysb+(OP)
The real tragedy is the management mandating this have their eyes clearly set on replacing the very same software engineers with this technology. I don’t know what’s more Kafka than Kafka but this situation certainly is!

>>le-mar+g4
When tasked to train a technology that deprecates yourself, it’s relatively OK (you’re getting paid handsomely, and many of the developers at Microsoft etc. are probably ready to retire soon anyway). It’s another thing to realize that the same technology will also deprecate your children.

>>strogo+jh
The managers may believe that's what they're asking their developers to do, but doesn't this whole charade expose the fact that this technology just does not have even close to the claimed capabilities?

I see it as wishful thinking in the extreme to suppose that probabilistic mashing together of plagiarized jigsaw pieces of code could somehow approach human intelligence and reasoning—and yet, the parlour trick is convincing enough that this has escalated into a mass delusion.

>>solarw+J31
Philosophy becomes key. True human intelligence is not very well defined, and possibly cannot be divorced from concepts like “consciousness” or “agency”, at which point claiming that the thing is “like human” opens the operator to accusations of running a torture chamber or being a slave owner of entities that can feel.

>>strogo+1b2
Agreed, though long before such qualms come to the fore I'd like to see even a shred of evidence that this entire approach to AI is at all capable of formulating mental models of the kind that have enabled humans to produce all the wonderful mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, philosophy, poetry, literature, art, etc. of the past several centuries.

I see the supposed reasoning tokens this latest crop of models produce as merely an extension of the parlour trick. We're so deep into this delusion that it's so very tempting to anthropomorphize this ersatz stream of consciousness as being 'thought'. I remain unconvinced that it's anything of the sort.

This comes to mind: "It is difficult to get anybody to understand something, when their salary depends on them not understanding it."

This latest bubble smacks ever more of being a con.