What is called Artificial Intelligence is nothing of the sort. It's more aptly named IA: "Information Aggregator" or something similar but Artificial Intelligence turns heads and catches people's attention. They think i-Robot and Terminator which keeps the interest up. If it was just NextGen Google it wouldn't attract so much attention. I'd prefer my responses to be tabular without all the noise and sycophantic nonsense streamed back with it.
Here's the thing about AI: it reinvented an more expensive and inferior wheel. All technology is input, output and processing an algorithm. For example: model based engineering and MBE tools have been around for 30+ years. You drag and drop design components and interfaces onto a canvas and the tool generates the code. Tens of thousands of lines of code. Or you can define DB schemas and data and the tools will generate the DB and the code to access the DB. Automated code generation is nothing new, the only difference with AI is that you get to "tell the model in natural language" what you want rather than specifying engineering details but so what? How is that an advantage? You still need engineers to define the prompts correctly. Prompt engineering has become a field of its own, there are sites where you can give it your messy no-knowledge prompt and it will supposedly "clean it up" for you but you have to pay for that service. Eventually there will be prompt libraries for specific domains that you can drag and drop onto a canvas to get AI to generate code. Tens of thousands of lines of code.
Need an SQL database? Fill in the field names and data types in the prompt template and voila`, you'll get the prompt you need for AI. Need a new website with functionalities A, B and C. voila`, here's your prompt. See where it's going?
Round and Round we go with the sounds of the underground.
Source: r/AIDiscussion · by /u/Frequent_Mountain_17