On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 19:22:33 +1300, I wrote:
Looks like the worst effect of the increasing pervasiveness of AI in our computer systems is that they will cause humans to lose brain cells just by interacting with them.
Even machine interacting with machine is starting to involve things like wordy, repeated instructions with added ALL CAPS for emphasis, like talking to somebody who is hard of hearing, or even hard of thinking. Here’s an article on some inadvertent reveals of what goes on between the DALL-E 3 AI image generator and the ChatGPT app, in the form of text prompts for specifying images to generate, and responses to them: <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/thanks-to-ai-the-future-of-programming-may-involve-yelling-in-all-caps/>. An X/Twitter user summed it up: “programming of the future requires yelling at AI in caps”. On the bright side, not only does writing words in all caps make a difference to responses, but being polite to the machine also seems to matter as well. Or is that really a bright side ... ?