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theoldgreybeard ◴[] No.46182214[source]
If a carpenter builds a crappy shelf “because” his power tools are not calibrated correctly - that’s a crappy carpenter, not a crappy tool.

If a scientist uses an LLM to write a paper with fabricated citations - that’s a crappy scientist.

AI is not the problem, laziness and negligence is. There needs to be serious social consequences to this kind of thing, otherwise we are tacitly endorsing it.

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CapitalistCartr ◴[] No.46182385[source]
I'm an industrial electrician. A lot of poor electrical work is visible only to a fellow electrician, and sometimes only another industrial electrician. Bad technical work requires technical inspectors to criticize. Sometimes highly skilled ones.
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xnx ◴[] No.46184518[source]
No doubt the best electricians are currently better than the best AI, but the best AI is likely now better than the novice homeowner. The trajectory over the past 2 years has been very good. Another five years and AI may be better than all but the very best, or most specialized, electricians.
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legostormtroopr ◴[] No.46184540[source]
Current state AI doesn’t have hands. How can it possibly be better at installing electrics than anyone?

Your post reads like AI precisely because while the grammar is fine, it lacks context - like someone prompted “reply that AI is better than average”.

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1. xnx ◴[] No.46184650[source]
An electrician with total knowledge/understanding, but only the average dexterity of a non-professional would still be very useful.