I don't think that this is an accident. I think this is one of those ways to "listen to user input" while also making the input completely dismissable. I also don't think "they do not understand"...
What I found most interesting is that the multiple choice options included a lot of “I found the Terminator movies scary”, “I read too much Ray Kurzweil”, and/or “I am or was a SF Bay Area rationalist” undertones, but actual ethical objections were strangely absent.
I don't think that this is an accident. I think this is one of those ways to "listen to user input" while also making the input completely dismissable. I also don't think "they do not understand" - I think they just don't particularly care.
If you get results that show "of the people that responded to this survey, half of them are most concerned about the singularity taking over" then everyone's eyes glaze over because there's no reasonable arguing with it.
The project managers aren't going to offer an option that says "I think that this multi-year project (that your position at Jetbrains relies on) is a waste of resources."
100%. We aren't the audience, shareholders are. And the shareholders stopped caring about quality or customer retention or satisafaction or any of that; they just want to circularly fall into the...
I also don't think "they do not understand" - I think they just don't particularly care.
100%. We aren't the audience, shareholders are. And the shareholders stopped caring about quality or customer retention or satisafaction or any of that; they just want to circularly fall into the hype cycle and see their investments go up.
Long term AI will be b2b anyway, so that ideal of "it will crash and burn" probably won't matter either. It'll have an AI crash but the remains will keep going.
It’s weird how many people dislike AI but there are so many different reasons. Most of the reasons given by the author don’t resonate with me, and some of the ones he dismisses I think are...
It’s weird how many people dislike AI but there are so many different reasons. Most of the reasons given by the author don’t resonate with me, and some of the ones he dismisses I think are important.
Here are my reasons for disliking it (if anyone cares), at least one overlaps slightly with the author’s concerns:
AI is designed for one basic thing: To replace a person. Anything that it is trained to do is something that a person could do. I don't want to take art and problem solving away from people.
AI is misunderstood by the people who make purchasing decisions. They think it’s really intelligence when it isn’t. And there will be years of disruption and unemployment and waste while this is taught to them over and over. By the time they realize that it’s all hype, it won’t be anymore and it really might be intelligence and we won’t get those lost years back.
Like everything else, it will be used to concentrate more power and wealth into the hands of a few rich people.
None of the authors reasons for disliking AI are actually actionable in anyway by jetbrains, the makers of programming IDEs The first three are just irrelevant for Jetbrains - no one is using...
None of the authors reasons for disliking AI are actually actionable in anyway by jetbrains, the makers of programming IDEs
I’m concerned about the kind of antisocial behaviors that AI will enable.
Coordinated inauthentic behavior
Misinformation
Nonconsensual pornography
Displacing entire industries without a viable replacement for their income
The first three are just irrelevant for Jetbrains - no one is using IntelliJ to make nonconsensual pornography no matter what AI-assisted developer tooling they added. The last one is on the survey.
I’m not sure that that’s an example of “companies not understanding why we don’t dislike AI” as much as it is an example of “the author not understanding what user surveys are for”.
Misinformation is why I stay away from most AI (including Jetbrains). It still has a tendency to hallucinate bad or wrong code and I spend more time correcting that. The kind of code I work on...
Misinformation is why I stay away from most AI (including Jetbrains). It still has a tendency to hallucinate bad or wrong code and I spend more time correcting that. The kind of code I work on doesn't have enough public datasets to really predict what I want to type in my domains.
but yes, AI autocomplete is probably the least harmful form of AI as of now.
I’m not sure that that’s an example of “companies not understanding why we don’t dislike AI” as much as it is an example of “the author not understanding what user surveys are for”
I think the Jetbrains survey is just a lede into the main, general topic. Not his specific point of aversion. I'm sure it's not the only survey, and the general point stands that AI as of now doesn't have a main goal of appealing to consumers.
I don't think that this is an accident. I think this is one of those ways to "listen to user input" while also making the input completely dismissable. I also don't think "they do not understand" - I think they just don't particularly care.
If you get results that show "of the people that responded to this survey, half of them are most concerned about the singularity taking over" then everyone's eyes glaze over because there's no reasonable arguing with it.
The project managers aren't going to offer an option that says "I think that this multi-year project (that your position at Jetbrains relies on) is a waste of resources."
100%. We aren't the audience, shareholders are. And the shareholders stopped caring about quality or customer retention or satisafaction or any of that; they just want to circularly fall into the hype cycle and see their investments go up.
Long term AI will be b2b anyway, so that ideal of "it will crash and burn" probably won't matter either. It'll have an AI crash but the remains will keep going.
It’s weird how many people dislike AI but there are so many different reasons. Most of the reasons given by the author don’t resonate with me, and some of the ones he dismisses I think are important.
Here are my reasons for disliking it (if anyone cares), at least one overlaps slightly with the author’s concerns:
None of the authors reasons for disliking AI are actually actionable in anyway by jetbrains, the makers of programming IDEs
The first three are just irrelevant for Jetbrains - no one is using IntelliJ to make nonconsensual pornography no matter what AI-assisted developer tooling they added. The last one is on the survey.
I’m not sure that that’s an example of “companies not understanding why we don’t dislike AI” as much as it is an example of “the author not understanding what user surveys are for”.
Misinformation is why I stay away from most AI (including Jetbrains). It still has a tendency to hallucinate bad or wrong code and I spend more time correcting that. The kind of code I work on doesn't have enough public datasets to really predict what I want to type in my domains.
but yes, AI autocomplete is probably the least harmful form of AI as of now.
I think the Jetbrains survey is just a lede into the main, general topic. Not his specific point of aversion. I'm sure it's not the only survey, and the general point stands that AI as of now doesn't have a main goal of appealing to consumers.