My new (to me) “revelation” is that AI needs a ton of structure. It’s like a child who when presented with too many options stops thinking and just randomly chooses one to do so they can be done with whatever it is. From what I can tell, the people who make the most use of AI have it tightly controlled. Rules, hooks, and various other tricks to essentially herd AI into doing what it should do. Kinda like herding cats.
Right now the tools and such for setting up that structure are immature, and best practices are hard to define when the base AI is still changing a lot.
For people who are just trying to use AI casually, they have heard the hype, and they think they should expect it to work like a person. When it doesn’t, they just say it sucks. And as a person, it does suck. It’s a tool. And a complex one at that. Seems it requires significant investment to get the most out of it.
My new (to me) “revelation” is that AI needs a ton of structure. It’s like a child who when presented with too many options stops thinking and just randomly chooses one to do so they can be done with whatever it is. From what I can tell, the people who make the most use of AI have it tightly controlled. Rules, hooks, and various other tricks to essentially herd AI into doing what it should do. Kinda like herding cats.
Right now the tools and such for setting up that structure are immature, and best practices are hard to define when the base AI is still changing a lot. For people who are just trying to use AI casually, they have heard the hype, and they think they should expect it to work like a person. When it doesn’t, they just say it sucks. And as a person, it does suck. It’s a tool. And a complex one at that. Seems it requires significant investment to get the most out of it.