They’re gestapo

You don’t always have to know how it works to rely on it. Most people could not tell you how a computer works but they are able to do better work.

We can verify that it’s better in some tasks than people. E.g give doctors and the AI 1000 MRI scans of potential cancer patients and it can determine it more accurate than doctors. So there they already are a help.

I’d really prefer if my doctor knew why they say I have cancer!

Books became a bicycle for the brain. Imo, AI is the same. Skills such as structuring sentences into perfectly grammatically correct forms will atrophy in exchange for the focus to be on the idea.

“In the future all our thoughts will be filtered through phone keyboard next word suggestion, and this is a good thing!”

So the pros are

• thing we have no way of knowing how it works, therefore no way of relying on it
• thing that helps you do something you then have to do anyway by yourself (if you want to learn something from generative model output you still need to fact check it)
• vague promise it will lead to anything useful in the future

I interpret it as her being unaware of his nonexsistence.