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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 9816926" data-attributes="member: 58197">All I know is that when I try AI art programs, they fail and fail and fail at delivering the specific thing I ask for. Ask for some bog-standard piece of fantasy art with nothing unusual or distinctive about it, sure, they're all over that. But as soon as I start requesting particular details, they can't seem to hang onto more than one or two at a time. Get the hair right and the armor goes wrong. Fix the armor and the face starts turning into some sort of anime thing. And if I want something out of the ordinary in theme or background or anything at all, it's like suddenly I'm speaking Klingon.AI is much better at writing code, and yet ultimately it runs into the same roadblock. It's great at giving me an example, a scaffold, a UI prototype, a test suite. It can trace through three thousand lines of code and pick out the one spot where I forgot to check for nulls. All this is super useful! But as soon as it comes time to write the heavy stuff, the working code which has to account for business needs and infrastructure considerations and resource constraints, full of very specific details that have to be right... forget it.The AI companies have pushed the "stochastic parrot" thing to truly astonishing levels. It turns out there's a lot you can do with a sufficiently trained parrot. But a parrot it remains.</blockquote>