I’m using it extensively, for instance, I have to create contracts with businesses that I work with, and AI is really helpful, works within minutes, and I don’t have to get a lawyer involved (I have sufficient legal know how, to be able to check the texts). I ask Claude.AI many questions, which help me to find out about any kind of topic (eg I wanted to know more about mobile nuclear reactors and got a quick summary within seconds). Naturally, you should take nothing at face value, blindly believing AI won’t do you any good, AI does not replace your brain. I create marketing materials and personal profiles with the help of AI, and I’ve also improved my CV. I have even used it to write a message to a friend who lost their son to cancer, I truly was at a loss for words, but AI helped me to come up with some useful sentences (which I personalized). All in all, it is extremely useful, even to answer questions here on Lemmy.
Idk. Speaking from my own experience, it’s not very clever. It might save you the time and money for a lawyer now. And maybe some time later make something up, you’ll blow a contract and loose $20,000 and you wish you had paid an expert. Or it doesn’t happen, that’s something we can tell with hindsight. And depends a lot on how complicated the contracts are, how well you check them, if the other party is a greedy company or some random grandma… But I’m willing to agree with the premise. Usually people -for some reason- need to be subscribed to one of the extremes. And there are things AI can do if people use it to their advantage and are aware of the limitations… I suppose if it works for you… it works for you. I’m having a bit of a hard time because it adds loads of inaccuracies and errors to my computer code and I ended up putting in quite some extra time into things I previously did myself in a fraction of the time. So I use AI for select tasks which aren’t an exact science. Like draw the logo for the prototype, or generate filler text, or come up with 10 creative ideas for gimmicks to add. That’s something it’s able to do for me.
I guess I’m not entirely okay, though. I’ve lately tried to contact a company who “outsourced” their customer support to AI. And I guess it also works out well for them, they probably don’t need to pay anyone to staff the hotline anymore. But their customers are properly fucked now. Took us several days, some trickery and luck to get hold of a human and achieve something. And that’s the flipside if companies use it to save money.
I don’t want it to be clever.
…because you fear for your job and don’t want it to be capable enough to do it? Or fear the robot apocalypse? Or because you have applications which don’t require artificial intelligence to be intelligent?
I mean on its own I think it’s a bit of a stupid opinion. You kinda want the Waymo on the street to be clever enough not to run you over as a pedestrian. That’d be bad and hurt at minimum.
It was a joke about the robot apocalypse, but thanks for jumping to the you are stupid conclusion.
Alright sorry, I didn’t mean to say you’re stupid, just the opinion without any hint for me to understand… So I mainly didn’t get the joke. But yeah, I feel for the robo apocalypse. Though I think it has to get considerably more intelligent to get anywhere close 😄