former Trust & Safety researcher and data scientist (Facebook, pre-Musk Twitter).
not sure social media should exist, but it does, so I tried to help it be better.
grateful to be doing more joyful data work at Wizards these days. =)
30+ | he / him | WA
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and when does it sometimes work kinda ok?
when it's used by experts on their area of expertise...
esp if the use is focused on (relatively) structured and context-insensitive inputs (eg, code)...
and esp if developers of AI tend to be familiar with or sensitive to those use cases (eg, CODE).
and it is presented confidently to a general audience, with fig leaves for attempts to educate and convey limits (at best, usually just enough to limit liability; at worst, marketing to make AI seem like more than it is).
I'll take this a step further:
most of the AI proponents I see - especially with social platforms - don't understand the methods, theories, debates, and philosophies of machine learning either (aka - the three raccoons raccoons tech companies are shoving into a trenchcoat and calling AI).
