Let’s be happy it doesn’t have access to nuclear weapons at the moment.
  • Gointhefridge@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I’m still really struggling to see an actual formidable use case for AI outside of computation and aiding in scientific research. Stop being lazy and write stuff. Why are we trying to give up everything that makes us human by offloading it to a machine?

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 months ago

      AI summaries of larger bodies of text work pretty well so long as the source text itself is not slop.

      Predictive text entry is a handy time saver so long as a human stays in the driver’s seat.

      Neither of these justify current levels of hype.

    • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It’s good for speech to text, translation and a starting point for a “tip-of-my-tongue” search where the search term is what you’re actually missing.

      • Terrasque@infosec.pubEnglish
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        3 months ago

        With chatgpt’s new web search it’s pretty good for more specialized searches too. And it links to the source, so you can check yourself.

        It’s been able to answer some very specific niche questions accurately and give link to relevant information.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It can be really good for text to speech and speech to text applications for disabled or people with learning disabilities.

      However it gets really funny and weird when it tries to read advanced mathematics formulas.

      I have also heard decent arguments for translation although in most cases it would still be better to learn the language or use a professional translator.

    • bloup@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I don’t use it for writing directly, but I do like to use it for worldbuilding. Because I can think of a general concept that could be explored in so many different ways, it’s nice to be able to just give it to an LLM and ask it to consider all of the possible ways it could imagine such an idea playing out. it also kind of doubles as a test because I usually have some sort of idea for what I’d like, and if it comes up with something similar on its own that kind of makes me feel like it would be something which would easily resonate with people. Additionally, a lot of the times it will come up with things that I hadn’t considered that are totally worth exploring. But I do agree that the only as you say “formidable” use case for this stuff at the moment is to use this thing as basically a research assistant for helping you in serious intellectual pursuits.