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AI as in the current LLMs is useful. But it has to be used for the right things. It is not a search engine. It is not perfect at extracting information from text.
I am not a fan of AI “art”, but I do actually find some AI music tolerable.
AI “art” has gotten worse in my opinion. It’s more “correct”, but has this nasty glow to it. I liked it better with the jank and seven fingers. It did not have the same AI slop glowy filter.
Development
It helps speed up development, not by giving me code I can use necessarily. But because it shows me a path forward. I don’t get stuck on tasks that should be easy anymore. I don’t have to think long for it to suggest me a way to map x object to y datatype.
It’s also useful for writing unit tests.
Summarization
I use it to summarize articles with a custom prompt. While not perfect, it helps me decide if this is clickbait/interesting or not. I use the summaries to decide if I want to read the article or not.
Do you see any obvious issues with this?
Give it a plan or something and ask if it sees any issues. It will come up with tons of bullshit and a few useful issues sometimes. It is like a sparring partner.
AI Dungeon
AI Dungeon is fun, it was even fun when GPT2 was a thing, but now it’s a lot better.
Low effort image recognition
Set up a camera, send a picture regularly and ask “Is X in photo? Yes/No”
(I know there is better ways of doing this, and even great pretrained machine learning APIs for it)
HomeAssistant
I have these sensors (give list of sensors). I want an automation that does x, y, z. It writes a working one in seconds.
Math
Yes, it is fairly good at math. You can’t trust it, but if you know a fair bit of math and know how to verify, it can help you use the right formulas. If you are stuck it can help you move forward.
I will not go into ethics.
AI as in the current LLMs is useful. But it has to be used for the right things. It is not a search engine. It is not perfect at extracting information from text.
I am not a fan of AI “art”, but I do actually find some AI music tolerable.
AI “art” has gotten worse in my opinion. It’s more “correct”, but has this nasty glow to it. I liked it better with the jank and seven fingers. It did not have the same AI slop glowy filter.
Development It helps speed up development, not by giving me code I can use necessarily. But because it shows me a path forward. I don’t get stuck on tasks that should be easy anymore. I don’t have to think long for it to suggest me a way to map x object to y datatype.
It’s also useful for writing unit tests.
Summarization I use it to summarize articles with a custom prompt. While not perfect, it helps me decide if this is clickbait/interesting or not. I use the summaries to decide if I want to read the article or not.
Do you see any obvious issues with this? Give it a plan or something and ask if it sees any issues. It will come up with tons of bullshit and a few useful issues sometimes. It is like a sparring partner.
AI Dungeon AI Dungeon is fun, it was even fun when GPT2 was a thing, but now it’s a lot better.
Low effort image recognition Set up a camera, send a picture regularly and ask “Is X in photo? Yes/No”
(I know there is better ways of doing this, and even great pretrained machine learning APIs for it)
HomeAssistant I have these sensors (give list of sensors). I want an automation that does x, y, z. It writes a working one in seconds.
Math Yes, it is fairly good at math. You can’t trust it, but if you know a fair bit of math and know how to verify, it can help you use the right formulas. If you are stuck it can help you move forward.
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Your first line is a confession that you are a bad person.
I can trust a calculator that uses so little electricity that it works with ambient light. Why would I want to use an untrustworthy AI?
Fucking blood diamonds that don’t even cut glass.
me: writing software for a calculator I don’t even own yet so I can maybe hopefully have a pocket version of one of the only good products of the first AI boom
them: Math Yes, it is fairly good at math. You can’t trust it,
then stop wasting our fucking time
I didn’t read the rest of your post but it’s vaguely LLM-shaped so off you fuck