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I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.
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'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.
conceptual midwife.
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able to accurately and swiftly cut out everything but the meat, nearly impossible to pass on to an apprentice in less than five years, end-users see it as a simple snack
Like, why, how did we get to a world where it's necessary to have human experts at feeding exactly the right input into an inscrutable AI model?
It's weird to me that being a 'prompt engineer' is a whole job. Not that it doesn't take effort but I'm struggling to imagine what a full day of work for a prompt engineer working at a company would look like. I bet they don't get paid well though 😔
finding obscure things often takes me hours when trying to solve my medical mystery, and that's with journal access.
Most specialized fields are similar, because there is so many things to lead Search astray as more and more papers and pages are written per year. Especially right now, in the era of academic publish or perish. Right now, most papers are, in abstract, SEO website with poorly written content that exists only to make impression count go up
Tom Scott went through this at one point with the Inogon light.
yeah, I often go on long arcs spiraling around a thing just to find the names
The idea that "phrase the right questions to the computer brain" is a specialized job is something Asimov frequently had as part of the background in some of his stories; e.g. Jokester or Escape!.
Yeah, I think it's partially because before Google, scifi authors get a whole lot of exposure to reference librarians, who were doing this with the original database search techniques, even when they were paper.
AI will free human kind up so that we can spend our time curating feeds of data for new AIs.
