I’ve found that AI has done literally nothing to improve my life in any way and has really just caused endless frustrations. From the enshitification of journalism to ruining pretty much all tech support and customer service, what is the point of this shit?
I work on the Salesforce platform and now I have their dumbass account managers harassing my team to buy into their stupid AI customer service agents. Really, the only AI highlight that I have seen is the guy that made the tool to spam job applications to combat worthless AI job recruiters and HR tools.
I used it the other day to spit out a ~150 line python script. It worked flawlessly on the first try.
I don’t know python.
It might not work so flawlessly on the 2nd, 3rd, or 100th time though. I use ChatGPT semi-frequently for coding, while it generally does a surprisingly good job, I often find things it overlooks, and need to keep prompting it for further refinements, or just fix it myself.
The applications of what you call ai are absolutely limitless. But to be clear what you’re calling “AI” isn’t AI in terms of what you might want it to be what you’re referring to are large language models or LLM’s. Which aren’t ai, not yet.
It’s short sighted statements like this that really get my blood boiling.
If humanity actually achieves artificial intelligence it’ll be the equivalent of the printing press or agriculture. It’ll be like inventing the superconductor or micro transistors all over again. Our world will completely change for the better.
If your interactions with these llms have been negative, I can only assume that you have a strong bias against this type of technology and have simply not used it in a way that’s applicable for you.
I personally use llms pretty much daily in my life and they have been nothing but an excellent tool.
How could you possibly know that achieving AI will change the world for the better? Change, I believe, but even people running the AI companies talk about how hard alignment is. There’s a chance it has a net positive effect on the world, but I guarantee you there is also a non-zero chance it has a net negative effect. If you have some way of predicting the future, maybe you should get into investing.
I use it to explain dumber questions i have about math and coding concepts.
I use it to write scripts.
I used it to interpret my rental lease and calculate penalties and see whats covered by my landlord vs myself.
In the sense that a forum I am on has had a huge amount of fun doing very silly things with Godzilla, yes.
https://forums.mst3k.com/t/dall-e-fun-with-an-ai/24697/8237
It’s best to start at the bottom. We didn’t start out with Godzilla when the thread began and it also began in 2022.
8220 posts, the majority Godzilla-related. I haven’t done too many lately, but here’s a few recent ones:
Tits, on an egg-laying reptile?
I’m not completely sure this is a real photo
How dare you mock a widow in mourning!
I ask it a lot of technical questions that are broad and non-specific. It helps to quickly get a gauge on what is the correct way to implement something.
Like any new tool it is being abused to hurt the working class by the wealthy. It does have useful aspects if used properly but it’s pretty overshadowed by all the awful uses imo
Yes, but they’re the same sort of people that think Elon Musk is a genius.
no, musk is a twit
Its funny to fuck around with, in the same way its funny ask a bible bot for Judges 15-16 and watching the bot get autobanned for saying ass.
thats about all it is though, a stupid silly thing to fuck around with.
Shouldnt be a production/human replacement thing.
I’ll use it to write scripts for repetitive tasks at my job. I never learned or know code so it’s actually super helpful in that sense but that isn’t really what OP is asking i don’t think. I use AI by going on to their platform and initiating the interaction. I disable every form of AI I am capable of disabling/uninstalling. Every integrated sense of AI has been obnoxious.
Yes. Ai art is great. It’s a new medium and pretty much every argument against it was made against photography a century ago, and most of them against pre-mixed paints before that. Stop believing the haters who don;t know what it actually is.
Erotic Roleplay. You’re welcome?
It’s funny you mention this, but the erotic roleplay aspect of llms is a thriving business generating millions of dollars every month now in subscription costs.
We’ve barely even scratching the surface of what these models can do and they’re increasing in usage at an exponential rate.
Chatgpt is decidedly unerotic in its responses.
I use ChatGpt to ask programming questions, it’s not always correct but neither is Stack Overflow nowadays. At least it will point me in the right direction.
At least it won’t get angry at you for asking a question
When the question is “does anyone actually like this thing” the answer is often “yeah, perverts.”
Internet search, e.g. Google, is now functionally almost completely useless. I use ChatGPT basically as a Google replacement.
I will still search for stuff - I use Kagi - but give up after half a dozen results if none of them are relevant and go to ChatGPT instead. Often, ChatGPT is more helpful. But sometimes it just makes a bunch of nonsense up.
ChatGPT is great for when you need to find something where you kind of know at least the vague shape of what you’re expecting and you have enough expertise to filter out any of the lies it makes up.
Boilerplate code (the stuff you usually have to copy anyway from GitHub) and summarising long boring articles. That’s the use case for me. Other than that I agree - and having done AI service agent coding myself for fun I can seriously say that I would not trust it to run a business service without a human in the loop
