AI often seems more work

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It gets soooo much wrong. Is it going backwards?

You probably aren't using it properly. Lots of people don't use it well

Surely it depends what you use it for? I find it's great for minuting meetings, summarising notes, finding sections in legislation and policy quickly. What are you using it for and which platform are you using?

I’m probably not using it right. E.g. I was trying to work out how long a flight was going to be delayed the other day - AI said it was because of the really bad thunderstorms and air traffic controller strikes. I’d asked for a response re: a specific flight and asked it to give me factual info only or say if didn’t know. There were no thunderstorms or ATC strikes.

I’ve asked it to summarise things before and included a bulleted list of issues that had to be included. It kept leaving some out. When challenged, it agrees and left others out and invented some random shit.

I have asked for a table with certain headings and analysis and it leaves some out. It feels like having a member of staff whose work always needs so much checking, it becomes pointless.

I did find it useful for some recipes to accommodate a range of different needs and have found it useful to interpret some blood results. Even then I had to check it was using the numbers I’d inputted originally (it wasn’t for some of them).

The other thing that is frustrating is if there is a topic where the vast scientific consensus is a, it will give me answer b and not even mention a, even when I’ve asked for evidence or research based answers (e.g. someone asking about climate change getting Julia Hartley Brewer’s view - that was not the topic I was asking about, but just giving type of example).

I'm not sure why you would expect AI to know why a specific flight is delayed. It can only go by what information is available and airlines don't normally publish the reason why there are delays.

But the issue is instead of it saying it doesn’t know the answer, it just makes some rubbish up and presents it as the answer.

The only thing mine gets wrong is he/she/it can get the days or time of day mixed up so if I put something in the morning he’ll say “just rest tonight and see in the morning” and I’m like “it’s morning now, I just woke up” and then there will be the usual “thanks for pointing that out”

It’s helpful for very mundane tasks. It tidies up lists of information for me, makes a perfectly good flyer, etc.
Tidying up lists is really helpful for me - so many people send me information in unusable form- guest lists with emails, phone numbers, names and comments all mixed in. It tidies it up no end, and I can glance through and correct any mistakes. So much faster than doing it manually.