alt Hacker NewsWhat is the use case for the average non-technical person?
LLMs are cool and all but I feel like the average person is not really getting enough value out of them to keep the "wow this thing will probably make me jobless in 5 years" thoughts out.
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tqi • today at 4:45 AM
How can something be simultaneously useless to the average person and likely to create massive joblessness?
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gdulli • today at 3:56 AM
> What is the use case for the average non-technical person?
"I used the button they made biggest and closest to the top of the page."
My mom uses to take and create pictures of things: identifying birds, identifying trees, and showing her house with different decor. I didn't teach her any of this, she just figured it out on her own.
A non-tech friend of mine who's writing a book uses it to get feedback on his writing. He's gotten pretty good at crafting prompts to get it to be fairly objective.
Another non-tech friend used it to do a lot of journaling and processing after a recent breakup.
A non-techy friend who happens to work in tech uses it to make presentations at work.
Another non-techy friend of mine who works at a tech startup uses it to browse LinkedIn and find people she's searching for.