In a Bluesky post, Nick Pettrigrew said:
I’m convinced AI is our generation’s radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid’s toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
This is exactly how I feel. For example, AI is an incredibly useful tool in programming. But it’s NOT for my mother to use. It should NOT show up in televisions. It should NOT be handling therapy for people. It should NOT be running accounting platforms.
By its very nature, it’s non-deterministic. And that’s a problem. We should be using it as a tool to assist in building more complex and (very) deterministic software systems.
