alt Hacker NewsAI is extremely useful, we just haven’t zeroed in on your specific use cases yet. Robotics has been transformed by it, IT and tech has been transformed by it. Finance and Legal have been transformed by it. To say it’s 95% useless is a personal bias.
To me it’s 65% useful. As it can run in the background doing “chores” while I sleep.
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AI is extremely useful and 95% USELESS at the same time. LLM based chat AI systems are a poor version of all the things that are AI.
Your perspective is a short arc. “Look what I can do now and look it made me way more productive.” I have no doubt it is true, you are on the up right now.
However thinking of the long arc is important to, even though it has no consequence for you right now. AI is a force multiplayer and scarily dangerous in the wrong hands. We can already see by these discussions how uncertain things are.
Just food for thought.
> As it can run in the background doing “chores” while I sleep.
Slightly off topic, but this reminds me of the night family in Rick and Morty.
notice they never tell you exactly what the fuck they are doing
Apparently "being transformed" has "been transformed" because most things look a hell of a lot like the same thing these days.
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People's workday has been transformed by it. But I fail to see actual transformation beyond "more crap, faster."
AI hasn't done anything we couldn't already do. It's just doing it faster and with more mistakes.