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Lano
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AI is actually pretty cool.

It's taught me some coding and helped me with my language learning hobby.

I feel like those are two things it excels at. Might not be so useful for other things.

What do you use it for?

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I don't overtly use it, though it seems to be 'embedded' to an increasing extent & thus utilized anyway.

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I've asked it for help finding old books I remember from my childhood.

I'm on the fence about it. I like the idea of a supercomputer able to search all the world's libraries and such for answers to all kinds of questions, but I'm against coding for any kind of agency or self-aware behavior. I've never been a big believer in the climate change narrative, but believe if it hasn't been a human-caused problem in the past, it certainly will be now we're tearing up our pristine farmland to install solar and wind farms to power data centers that require more energy to run than what is used by the entire rest of the state. Why did I spend half of my life being told to drive less, use less water, recycle, etc.? All this while being openly warned it is likely to cause the extinction of humanity -and possibly all the life on the planet. Why have we spent so much time, energy and money looking for life on other planets while killing the life on this one?

IDK...but...yeah, it's fun to ask it for help finding info that otherwise seems impossible to get.

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Help me...find some new websites with interesting content to hang out on.

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DragonLady wrote:
I've asked it for help finding old books I remember from my childhood.

I'm on the fence about it. I like the idea of a supercomputer able to search all the world's libraries and such for answers to all kinds of questions, but I'm against coding for any kind of agency or self-aware behavior. I've never been a big believer in the climate change narrative, but believe if it hasn't been a human-caused problem in the past, it certainly will be now we're tearing up our pristine farmland to install solar and wind farms to power data centers that require more energy to run than what is used by the entire rest of the state. Why did I spend half of my life being told to drive less, use less water, recycle, etc.? All this while being openly warned it is likely to cause the extinction of humanity -and possibly all the life on the planet. Why have we spent so much time, energy and money looking for life on other planets while killing the life on this one?

IDK...but...yeah, it's fun to ask it for help finding info that otherwise seems impossible to get.

Its really good at getting a direction in research - it can provide an overview of a field or basic arguments for a position, summing up information from numerous sources in a short, easy to digest format.

A good AI platform will provide the sources for the info it's providing so you can follow up on it yourself.

It's not going to solve complicated social issues on its own, that is for sure.

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The other problem I see with it is that providing a quick overview of the information available is making it redundant for users to go to the individual websites where that information is stored.

Human makes website, with information for visitors to bring traffic.
AI searches website.
Human sees little or no human traffic.
AI slowly consumes web so fewer and fewer humans make websites.

My son was telling me AI image generation is eating itself, too. AI makes an image of a person with 17 fingers, that image is stored somewhere on the web, another AI bot trains on it...and eventually every image of humans has too many fingers.

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Help me...find some new websites with interesting content to hang out on.

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