When I started my first software developer job, a colleague had printed a quote that I still remember and hung it in his cubicle. It said, “The problem with computers is that they do exactly what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do.”#AI has turned this upside down. It’s often difficult to get it to do what I tell it to do—it does what it thinks I want it to do.
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