I guess what I'm probably not seeing from my vantage point is that translating into a better experience with the tools available. I just cancelled a ChatGPT plu

I guess what I'm probably not seeing from my vantage point is that translating into a better experience with the tools available. I just cancelled a ChatGPT plus subscription because it just didn't seem useful enough to justify the price. I absolutely understand that there are people for whom it is, but nearly everyone I see that talks a lot about the value of AI either has use cases that I don't care about such as automated "content" generation or high-volume lowish-skill code generation, or they see achieving a progressively more difficult set of benchmarks as a useful end in itself. I like copilot autocomplete when I'm coding, but the quality of that hasn't dramatically changed. I don't give a damn about benchmarks-- I only care what I get from it practically. I have absolutely no interest in using ChatGPT as a therapist or companion because I value human connection and have access to it. So far I simply don't see significant changes in what comes out vs what gets typed in for practical usage. I wouldn't give ChatGPT logic problems to solve except maybe for generating code because I know code well enough to quickly evaluate its output. If the caveat is "hey FYI this thing might hide some frustratingly plausible looking bullshit in the answer so double-check its work," then what good is it really for hard problems if you just have to re-do them anyway? The same thing is true with image generation. Sure, it's better in ways that are sort-of meaningful for low-value professional or hobby usage, but it's barely budged the barriers to becoming good enough for high-end media production. I totally believe that this technology is improving and when you're looking at it in isolation, those improvements seem meaningful. But I just don't see that yet translating into things most of the general public can sink their teeth into. With things like the (still) shitty google search "enhancements", and users being forced into AI-driven chat workflows or having big loud not-really-useful UI elements dedicated to AI features, in some ways they've made people's experience using computers meaningfully worse. Just like with Mastodon, I see a huge disconnect with the tech crowd's excitement with what's happening with the technology, and how that ends up working for users that need to actually solve their problems with that technology.