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I use it daily as a glorified search engine. Ever since Google decided that showing ads is more important than showing search results ChatGPT is much better.

It’s what they’ll use to decrease the population when workers aren’t needed anymore

Potentially useful for lots of thing, unfortunately, everyone seems fixated on stuff that is not ready for and probably wont be, or on hating everything involved.

Me? Mostly on the fence, hating most of what I see and hopeful for those useful applications.

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No, it’s made it worse. I already automated the work “AI” could do before gpt was released.

Now when someone suggests a change there is always hallucinations of settings that don’t exist.

It will continue to improve function wise. Its innevitable. Its cannot currently and may never be able to replace humans but can act as one heck of an assitant. Its scary as heck as already the training is not being done in an optimized, deliberate way that makes it as high quality as possible and those who control it when doing deliberate things are likely to do it in a way that is good for them but not for all. Im worried we won’t get the very good training in the same way software is often done badly because once it can do good enough, even inefficiently, then it will ship. Our best options will be free/libre.

eh, we’ve been here before.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

It broke me out of a broken mindset at least, since no human would actually talk to me in a wise way, this therapy-pilled bot did that job instead.

It really is a good search engine, provided you check sources. It’s a good way to get around the enshitified google searches.

Good for bouncing ideas off, and low-effort stories where you play whatever role your friends would not put up with. In other words, a fun game.

However, it’s been taking more time than it’s been saving whenever I tried to get it to do more. Agentic frameworks rarely work beyond “add this bit of text to my notes while I work”, so you don’t have to search up and find certain documents. Or “tell me what my document says about so and so topic”. If you expect it to code for you, or manage your files properly, or not delete it’s own components, forget it. More effort than it’s worth.

I actually shut down my VM, as I currently have no use for it whatsoever, and I don’t like using non-local AI models, for several reasons, I will only use them when necessary.

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It’s invaluable.

It has already saved me so much time and allowed me to do things I wouldn’t have been able to do otherwise.

I’m sold on it.

The technology is remarkable, the implementation is lame, the impact is happening too fast for us to adapt, the damage to artists and creatives is to cry for.

Someone posted a meme yesterday comparing it to The One Ring from LOTR and I think it’s spot on.

This is the largest technology con job right now. NFTs failed, the “metaverse” failed, now a badly trained AI is the “solution to humanity’s problems”. This is just as stupid as religion.

It’s simultaneously awesome and overhyped.