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▲ semi-extrinsic 2 days ago

This is called "watching YouTube tutorials". We've had it for decades.

▲rolisz 2 days ago | parent [-]

But what if there's no YouTube tutorial for the exact AC unit you have and it doesn't look like any of the videos you checked out?

▲semi-extrinsic 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Then you are equally fucked as the AI will be, so no difference.

Case in point, I remember about ten years ago our washing machine started making noise from the drum bearing. Found a Youtube tutorial for bearing replacement on the exact same model, but 3 years older. Followed it just fine until it was time to split the drum. Then it turned out that in the newer units like mine, some rent-seeking MBA fuckers had decided more profits could be had if they plastic welded shut the entire drum assembly. Which was then a $300 replacement part for a $400 machine.

An AI doesn't help with this type of shit. It can't know the unknown.

▲deepGem 2 days ago | parent [-]

But once it knows it’s pretty certain to become common knowledge almost instantaneously. That’s not possible now. What you learn stays localised to you and may be people 1 degree away from you that’s it.

▲semi-extrinsic a day ago | parent [-]

How does that work? None of the current AI models can re-train on the fly. How would the inference engine even know if it's a case of new information that needs to be fed back, or just a user that's not following instructions correctly?

▲deepGem a day ago | parent [-]

This is correct. What I meant to say was that in due course, re-training on the fly will become a norm. Even without on the fly re-training we are looking at a small delta.

▲cess11 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you met people that seem to be able to fix almost anything?

If you can't get a tutorial on your exact case you learn about the problem domain and intuit from there. Usually it works out if you're careful, unlike software.