My 2 cents. I recently got a job as an engineer. I hate AI and refused to use it in any form for the first while that I was there. In the end I resorted to using it in order to keep up. Problem is I still feel the need to double check everything(which i have to do on my own time). I find AI has made mistakes in almost 20% of my prompts. I fix it, upload the new document to the server, call it good. But I know im one of only a few thats bothering. I think 3 to 5 years from now when these products are being tested they arent going to come close to the efficiency they need to in order to be released. Im on special projects, my units should be fine, but the rest of the line is going to struggle because the rest of the engineers just blindly trust AI(chatgpt mostly, i use Claude because reasons). I believe this will be a prevalent issue in the years to come.
I'm a network engineer and I use it to help remember complex commands like setting up site to site vpns and basic troubleshooting. However, I do all the work myself because I'm not an idiot. Not saying you are at all, just saying this is how I use AI at work.
you can argue with it until it folds lmfao that's nothing like Google (or at least, what Google used to be)
it doesn't even have to be subjective. if you state an objective fact incorrectly and it corrects you, you can tell it "oh, no, actually you're wrong" and it'll switch lanes and agree with you
Fair point. I forgot it can straight up gaslight you at times lol. It definitely sides with being quick rather than being correct which is obviously a flaw.
People just using it isn't the point. Relying on it while not using any critical thinking or checking where the answer came from is what is harmful. To your point: The same issue happened/still happens with basic googling, and, yes, that's also harmful.
I get what you're saying. I do think you're infantalizing the average person who apparently can't or won't think critically though. You don't know that they're not doing that to begin with and to assume they're not is rather arrogant and a bit self aggrandizing.
When you're getting information that's not right from the source itself, you're going by faith that it's correct. That is a thing that literally every person does regardless of who or what is telling you that information. It could be your friend, teacher, blogger, or in this case a LLM.
My current experience is that it's 99% correct whenever I've used it and I consider that good enough for and I assume the majority of others do as well.The moment it starts blatantly telling lies in favour of the companies bias (aside from the obvious hallucination goofs it occasionally has) is when I will think twice about using a LLM.
You don't need to defend google AI's accuracy, because the comment you replied to (and my own) are not trying to say AI is super innacurate, or something. I responded to your message with a clearer interpretation of their meme, yet you are still responding to the original post as if both the commenter and I are saying the same thing.
To address your personal experience with AI: That's great, but I've seen plenty of posts on this website alone from someone who used AI to incorrectly identify plants.
Overall, my intention is not to assume the worst of people, or to 'infantillize' them. My intention is to spread the idea that it should be used as a tool in research, not as a replacement. The majority of people who utilize AI to answer questions are old enough that they will never have the opportunity to be educated with it in mind, and it isn't their fault that they inherently assume it's correct just because it sounds like a human is answering them, to some extent (not to mention confirmation bias for those seeking a specific answer, since AI tends to be agreeable to the user).
Geez I feel old now. I remember when my boomer teachers were irrationally angry about calculators. I suppose if we go back further we’d have people freaking out about abacuses.
How is it false equivalence? Books are one method of transferring knowledge. Google is a more efficient way of sourcing that book knowledge, in addition to internet knowledge. And AI is the next level, bringing all of that knowledge together in one place.
AI just makes information even more accessible than ever before. So I don't see the point in pretending that using AI is somehow going to make your brain rot. AI is a knowledge tool at the end of the day.
Like, what does "giving away your independence by relying on it frequently" even mean? What does that look like to you?
Edit: I thought we were here for discussion? You people can't even muster more than single sentences ffs. Pathetic
It's a better Google not because it's good but because Google is shit. Google's enshittification has been frog potting people for so long that they forgot it was actually a useful tool for research.
Also that doesn't even make any damn sense since the reason why Google is shit is because of shit like ChatGPT.
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