AWS's (De)Generative AI Blunder

by dlgeekon 12/6/23, 7:22 PMwith 13 comments
by QuinnyPigon 12/6/23, 8:04 PM

Author here. I'm sorry; I can't stop giggling at the image captions. It's my favorite part of the piece.

by wg0on 12/6/23, 10:19 PM

Late it might be, but lame it is not.

Amazon Q has been pretty useful for AWS console and I find it using more and more to clarify different ways to architect a solution. Most of the times, it can generate command line, API calls and IAM policies pretty okay.

Rest - all models are actually fakers, hallucinators. It's just that those hallucinations coincidentally mapping on to the reality.

No model even ChatGPT has any understanding of anything whatsoever, the fundamental building blocks and algorithms are all the same. Pretty much.

by mdanielon 12/7/23, 12:46 AM

Be sure you don't overlook the linked post at the bottom of the page: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/how-to-stop-feeding-awss-... (lightly discussed a few times last month, but I didn't see it go by)

by urbandw311eron 12/7/23, 8:14 AM

> It periodically opens a giant chat window that obscures content.

Hard to ignore the irony of this complaint appearing on a site that itself obscured half the content with an enormous advert featuring a duck.