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First sentence of the article: "It's easy to pick on AI, because, well, it's costing a whole lot and providing, at best, dubious benefits." "At best dubious be
by IMTDb 3y ago
First sentence of the article: "It's easy to pick on AI, because, well, it's costing a whole lot and providing, at best, dubious benefits."
"At best dubious benefits" ??? I feel like there is a whole essay missing there, because my analysis of the situation is that it provides at minimum minor benefits to million of people using it on a daily basis, and at best it saves lives to some of them.
That it not to say there is 0 harm anywhere; we definitely need to do some cost/benefit analysis. But the initial premise is so obviously flawed that it's hard to consider the rest of the arguments.
- dbtc 3y agoCan you give some examples?
- plagiarist 3y agoI use AI instead of a thesaurus, it's pretty adequate.
- dbtc 3y agoThe username, the adjective, it's all fabulous.
- data-ottawa 3y agoLLMs/ChatGPT is saving me a lot of time, and it’s actually a very good tool to find a jumping off point for research. Copilot saves me quite a bit of time writing documentation and boilerplate. For hobbies AI is nice because I can ask my beginner questions and get results, where often you end up on low quality blogs or reddit threads arguing about things you shouldn’t bother thinking of when starting out.
- miek 3y agoI agree; It's odd that you received enough downvotes to be partially grayed out.
- Eisenstein 3y agoI ask GPT things all the times and it tells me how dangerous they are. Like, everything I ask there is a warning about how I need to be careful doing it. Maybe someone somewhere asked GPT how to cook pasta and had no idea boiling water was hot, and GPT's warning not to get boiling water on themselves saved them from massive burns?
- protocolture 3y agoI built a pretty complex home automation system using a stack of raspberry pis and python code that largely came out of GPT4 and copilot. I had no previous python experience. Just came up with the idea as a way to get GPT4 to teach me something.
- nonsensikal 3y agoThis article forgets the thesis because who cares? It's just disposable trash trying pattern match on "AI bad." The whole point is just to nod along.
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- protocolture 3y agoThis. I think the problem is that its hard to say that its increased all performance by 50%. But every day I hear of a new use case that's turned a single persons life around completely.
- joe_the_user 3y agoI know a number of people who find ChatGpt convenient and even fun. But I don't know of "life changing" instances. What are these instances? I mean, the phrase sounds like "I started my business with ChatGpt", which is true of all the recent trendy things and so would be less unique than people imagine or "ChatGpt cured my depression", where someone really shouldn't do that.