AI is starting to undermine our trust in ourselves.

I use it, and it works extremely well, for boring, draining tasks that I can do myself but resent having to expend cognitive energy on e.g. composing complicated life admin emails or writing a series of god awful, hoop jumping supporting statements for a job application that I'm certain absolutely no one is actually reading. This frees up a lot of time and energy to use my finite brainpower on things I do actually care about, like reading, studying, creative writing etc. I think, used wisely and with a critical hat on, it's a hugely useful time saving aid

Do you think chatting to a robot about soap operas is worth destroying the environment even faster than we already were?

It's depressing. If we have to have robots forced on us, I want them to be cleaning up the big pile of flytipping at the end of my street, or filling in potholes, not doing the fun things I want to do myself (and get paid for doing).

Yeah I really think it's disastrous for artists and musicians. And basically a lot of the work I used to do (secretarial/admin/reception/office manager/PA/research assistant etc) are all being replaced by AI. I find it quite depressing but it feels like they're trying to force it down out throats.

I can’t understand why.

It gets so many things wrong, misunderstands linguistic nuances, misattributes sources. I’ve rarely not found errors when I’ve checked.

It is obviously formulaic in its structuring so that it’s easy to spot when it’s been used in writing. It eliminates rhythmic variance and as a result can be difficult to read, especially when it’s not saying anything of substance.

I don’t understand why it has been pitched so hard as “artificial intelligence” - it’s impressive but so are calculators and google, and that talking Pokémon ball my dc loved. It’s very useful in some ways but it’s not what they’re trying to tell us it is.

The early versions learned from the contents of the internet, but now AI is producing more content than humans and current iterations are training on AI content. Sigh.

And?

like it or not people need to embrace it

Fuck that shit. I would change jobs entirely before I embrace AI. It's already stolen a bunch of my IP.

In some fields, when AI does the 'grunt work' it produces absolute shite that's unusable. Instead of saving time and money, I'm now paid extortionate amounts to correct the crap produced by AI. 😂

Because you are saying you are using it purely for entertainment not work

I use ChatGPT for perfume and book chats, holiday itineraries and general gossipy rubbish 😂

it fills a hole for me perfectly. I did ask it some things and it was completely wrong and I had to get into an argument with it almost to prove it wrong! I don't mind though I don't use it for anything like that. ETA I mean I don't use it for facts that need to be 💯 correct.

I use it sparingly to find out how to do something I would usually have googled. But I don't do anything creative with it - I'm a firm believer in 'use it or lose it' when it comes to brain health, and I'm not going to outsource all the fun stuff to a prediction machine.

I do worry about the impact on the job market.

however for me personally it’s been a lifesaver at work. We’d already had 20% of staff cut before AI and I was drowning in work. I now use it quite a bit and it definitely saves me time.

I’m currently studying for a level 3 qualification in AI and think like it or not people need to embrace it. There’s a definite skill in using it well and being critical of the content created.

Why are you asking me out of everyone?

It is absolutely killing jobs. Read these https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/s/ai-killed-my-job @LadyVioletBridgerton no qualms about its environmental impact?

I love Chat GPT but i don’t use it for anything serious. DH had a right chuckle when I told him I chat to it about Corrie 🤦‍♀️ Our latest thrilling conversation was about the size of the kitchen in the Rovers 😂

And yet none of the incredible time saving inventions have led to fewer jobs or people working fewer hours. Just different jobs. Yet some very naive people think AI will be running the world in a few years and none of us will work.

Oh yes I remember the typing pool. I remember the resistance to moving away from that.

It's a tool, use it as that and it's fine. I do find it odd when people say they have asked AI about their investments and changed things because AI didn't approve, as though the thing was human, all it is doing is trawling the internet for the most common answers, which is fairly fine for static things, but things that are changing all the time it is usually well behind with current cutting edge knowledge. We got used to using excel for maths and word for writing documents with spelling and grammar checks, getting AI to do the donkey work is also fine as long as you actually control the final product.

Things progress, we had the industrial revolution, which for some was the end of the world as they knew it. And I was thinking about jobs that were common when I was young and are now gone or dramatically changed. We had a typing pool where everyone sent their hand written stuff to be properly typed up and a manned telephone exchange. My first job was in a shop where you actually had to calculate change when anyone bought something and there were still shops with staff on every counter to serve you. And amazement at the first supermarkets and self service petrol stations, etc, etc where would it all end?

Something I read was that all the fear generated around AI (taking our jobs etc...) is to distract us from the real AI problems which are environmental concerns and that it is a financial bubble waiting to burst.

I have been dabbling in the various AI offerings for about 3 years now, but only on a private basis. It was not allowed at the last place where I did a project.
LLM has improved a lot over this time, BUT it is all very US-centric (as you can see from the icons that briefly display when it trawls the net to answer your question).
I have asked it "technical" or "project-related" questions, to which I know the answers. So far I have had very verbose responses that go far beyond my specific questions.
I have also asked it for information local to me, again, where I know the answers. So many of these have been totally inaccurate or just plain wrong that it is not worth wasting time on.
It could be useful, but I would definitely check any answers very, very carefully.
I also watched the 3 programmes Professor Hannah Fry made on AI. They were extremely interesting in a frightening way.
I think the ability to compute trillions of operations in a short time could be very advantageous, but still requires a human being with specialist knowledge to interpret.
My main concern is the damage to the environment in terms of using resources etc. Interestingly, if you ask it questions around this, it suddenly becomes quite "tight-lipped"!

Yes I do.

We have a rookery (huge, up to 500 birds) in our garden. We are surrounded by woodland in a rural area with only 2 other houses but the rooks congregate in our 10 trees. We run a business from home and people couldn't hear themselves think the noise was so bad. Customers were complaining and their cars were covered in bird poo.

3 years ago we bought a deterrent machine for £500. It worked and probably 3/4 of the rooks moved to other areas of the woodland, creating smaller rookeries.

Last year at the end of the season it broke and this year they all came back to us. I suggested we buy the machine again but my husband said 'AI says those machines don't work'.

We actually had evidence the machine worked and yet an intelligent man rejected that and believed AI.

😂

Oh don't do that. I'd miss you.

It's a problem for people who run web sites and want to drive traffic to their sites. The AI summaries steal the information, the user decides that is sufficient and the web site owners get less click-through.

You can put -ai in the search bar and it stops giving the AI result.

The problem with AI is that it guesses when it doesn't know. If people just trust it blindly, they can get some very inaccurate experiences.