Can we stop acting like all uses of AI are universal across platforms and corporations? Like much in life, some are good, some are bad and some are in the middle.
Some are public facing, some are not.
I like how @HauntedPirate used AI to create his list
Many times. And to be clear “it” is ChatGPT - I’ve been messing around with Gemini and just signed up for Claude this weekend so we shall see!
No need to be snarky. I agreed with you about people using Google, and then made the point that people also do this with AI chatbots. There's even one built into Google search now, so I'm sure this is happening even more!
I've seen AI features like these in my banking and payment apps, too. I'm under the impression that these are optional or behind-the-scenes, so it hasn't felt like they're being forced on us. Is this not the case?
In my opinion, Claude's output is superior. With the right inputs, it has been more accurate and less prone to hallucination than ChatGPT.
Yes, it was highly recommended to me and I’m already extremely impressed so far but I haven’t really tested it enough yet.
Even Google has the correct answer for the rafts.
I'm hopeful that Disney will pursue a partnership with Anthropic now that their deal with OpenAI has fallen through.
No one was trying to use the printing press to determine missile strikes, or asking what medications can safely mix, or financial planning advice, etc. Also, as best I can tell, no one formed an unhealthy fake relationship with a printing press because it constantly validated them every time they talked to it.
The kicker here is that these companies are paying a bunch of money for these systems and their end goal isn't to have a few optional services on the fringe.
I agree. AI is one of the first major technological innovations that pretends to be human. This is fundamentally different.
I blame the AI companies that have presented AI as consumer products (that train the models) rather than professional tools, which is what they really are at this point.
Isn't this how all innovations (especially technological ones) have always been incorporated? They start as optional, add-on features (which allow developers to learn and adjust them), and then they are incorporated into mainstream products.
Is a voicemail ok, or do they need to submit requests in writing? Can they use carbon paper for triplicate copies?
It absolutely, positively does not make it “more comprehensive.” Compiling information via primary and secondary sources gives you a vastly fuller and more meaningful understanding of any topic, including the culture and history of a particular tourist destination. Humans are also capable of creating new ideas from that information in a way AI can’t. This is all in addition to the fact that AI writing is painfully soulless to read, a succession of letters with nothing substantive behind them.
I’ll repeat this - the AI companies are working with the current administration to ban all regulation of AI for a decade, including state regulation and the actions of future administrations. That’s an incredible, unprecedented effort.
www.cnet.com
www.pewresearch.org
Do you think your manual search can find more sources than AI's web search, with access to a wide variety of specialized databases and indices?
I agree!
A lot of it is, but it doesn't have to be.
Especially if you point to the worst, laziest, half-hearted uses of it.
I respect you a great deal as a poster, Caleb, but statements like this seem to indicate that are relying on catchphrases and boosterism when considering the impact of AI.
As you seem to acknowledge here, claiming something is “just a tool,” overlooks the massive impact tools have on humans and the way they interact with the world. It also overlooks the fact that different situations are different - the differences between the printing press and AI are so many they are impossible to list. What effect will wide adoption have? How will they change users? How will those changes change society, culture, politics, economics? What changes are we already seeing? How is a new technology being disseminated? Who is pushing its dissemination and why? How might malign forces use this technology? Etc.
Printing press - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
ETA: Those concerns were warranted and prescient then and they are now. But in hindsight we can see the net benefit of the innovation.
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This was not my intention. I think AI is the single biggest technological innovation of my lifetime (the most promising and, perhaps, the most dangerous).
I usually try several queries, trying to give the benefit of the doubt that this ‘intelligence’ is just reacting to user-error.
Yes, you can also etch the message in stone using two pieces of rock. It just takes a lot more effort, and more time.