A rollercoaster of pride, panic, and AI gasliting I code to relax. Some people do yoga, some meditate—I open VS Code at 11 PM like a gremlin-raccoon. Don’t judge. I work full-time at Microsoft, and between family time and my other hobbies, I somehow keep starting new side projects. I’ve got VocalCat, an AI interviewer for SOMOS.tech, some fediverse experiments, and a Mastodon fork where I play with identity and static blog integrations.

I’ll keep this short and sweet since there’s already gazillions of information about Large Language Models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI), and I doubt I’ll contribute anything novel to the discussion. This post aims to put in words this interlude video about LLMs and AI before adding the magic AI bits into our app. I will argue two things: 1) LLMs are a form of artificial intelligence, 2) They represent a rather limited form of intelligence that requires constant supervision.

ChatGPT and most AI systems have biases, often manifesting as racism and discrimination, mirroring the biases present in human society and hence in the data we use to train such systems. And look, I am excited about AI, but sometimes we are moving too fast without thinking in the consequences. Last week we had our team monthly lunch, and as in other ocassions we were talked about everything, ranged from topics as cane sugar industry, spicy food levels, skiing, and of course, AI.