The LLM paradigm will never lead to AGI and to attach something other than AGI to all of your personal data and files — and setting it free whilst you sleep — is about as dumb as anything I can imagine.
The frontend will remain a requirement because you cannot trust LLMs to not hallucinate. Literally cannot. The "Claw" phenomenon is essentially a marketing craze for a headless AI browser that has filesystem access. I don't even trust my current browser with filesystem access. I don't trust the AI browsers when I can see what they're doing because they click faster than I can process what they're doing. If they're stopping to ask my permission, what's the point?
Mark my words, this will be an absolute disaster for every single person who connects these things to anything of meaning eventually.
Most of the safety people on the AI side seem to have some very hyperbolic concerns and little understanding of how the world works. They are worried about scenarios like HAL and the Terminator, and the reality is that if linesmen stopped showing up to work for a week across the nation there is no more power. That an individual with a high powered rifle can shut down the the grid in an area with ease.
As for the other concerns they had... well we already have those social issues, and are good at arguing about the solutions and not making progress on them. What sort of god complex does one have to have to think that "AI" will solve any of it? The whole thing is shades of the last hype cycle when everything was going to go on the block chain (medical records, no thanks).
Acquiescence is your solution whether you care or not. Your feelings are irrelevant to the matter. It's a binary decision in the end, you either play ball or walk out.
You clearly don't understand how this works. Social problems are not objective, like math problems. A lack of family support, for example, is something that many people label as a problem... but a lot of people just build strong social networks outside of their family and really don't care when someone says "family first!".
That's what I think about the cries around a lack of privacy.
I know I somehow ended up in a forum full of IT people and that might my problem, but: People are not software. You don't get to flag something as "problematic" on other people.
You must be unaware that you're your own best salesman. Only you buy the bullshit you sell, and you can't be shocked when others don't. There's a lot I could tackle here, as you're wrong in tons of ways, but objective facts reveal truth. Sadly that bot of yours won't work in the physical realm, so hopefully that's not the bullshitter.
Install cameras everywhere there's assumed privacy like the bathroom / water closet, bedrooms, or anywhere else. Can keep costs down by simply filming it as well. When anyone asks what you've been doing lately simply provide them those recordings. Might want to upload somewhere if easier, and freely post those too since you don't care.
Make copies of your ID, credit cards, phone number, and email addresses. Have some with two of those, some with three, and some with all four included. Mix it up in any carefree fashion you'd like. Next time one is required hand them copies, and then carelessly proceed about your business. Tell them to get over it, and move on, since that's their social problem of which you don't care regardless if they care you're a weirdo that doesn't care.
People are different. Some are painters and some are sculptors. Andy Warhol was a master draftsman but he didn't get famous off of his drawings. He got famous off of screen printing other people's art that he often didn't own. He just pioneered the technique and because it was new, people got excited, and today he's widely considered to be a generational artistic genius.
I tend to believe that, in all things, the quality of the output and how it is received is what matters and not the process that leads to producing the output.
If you use an LLM assisted workflow to write something that a lot of people love, then you have created art and you are a great artist. It's probable that if Tolkien was born in our time instead of his, he'd be using modern tools while still creating great art, because his creative mind and his work ethic are the most important factors in the creative process.
I'm not of the opinion that any LLM will ever provide quality that comes close to a master work by itself, but I do think they will be valuable tools for a lot of creative people in the grueling and unrewarding "just make it exist first" stage of the creative process, while genius will still shine as it always has in the "you can make it good later" stage.
I tend to believe that, in all things, the quality of the output and how it is received is what matters and not the process that leads to producing the output.
If the ends justifies the means is a well-worn disagreement/debate, and I think the only solid conclusion we've come to as a society is that it depends.
That's a moral debate, not suitable for this discussion.
The discussion at hand is about purity and efficiency. Some people are process oriented, perfectionists, purists that take great pride in how they made something. Even if the thing they made isn't useful at all to anyone except to stroke their own ego.
Others are more practical and see a tool as a tool, not every hammer you make needs to be beautiful and made from the best materials money can buy.
Depending on the context either approach can be correct. For some things being a detail oriented perfectionist is good. Things like a web framework or a programming language or an OS. But for most things, just being practical and finding a cheap and clever way to get to where you want to go will outperform most over engineering.
It sure is myopic to think that the debate over if the ends justifies the means is solely a moral consideration, and then literally list cases where the value of the means compared to the ends is a judgment call results in "it depends".
The frontend will remain a requirement because you cannot trust LLMs to not hallucinate. Literally cannot. The "Claw" phenomenon is essentially a marketing craze for a headless AI browser that has filesystem access. I don't even trust my current browser with filesystem access. I don't trust the AI browsers when I can see what they're doing because they click faster than I can process what they're doing. If they're stopping to ask my permission, what's the point?
Mark my words, this will be an absolute disaster for every single person who connects these things to anything of meaning eventually.
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