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iveyline@paninid As someone wrote in a post AI is 90%hype and 10% useful. We have human intelligence. Using AI to compose a letter or write a book is sheer laziness and turning us into zombies. Apart from specialist data mining purposes AI serves little purpose.
Thomas
Keyka@iveyline @paninid It seems like all the hype around AI came about because of the LLM. Beyond that, I see many useful (but not news-worthy) applications of AI: from generating better OCR (text recognition), translating languages, playing board games, detecting cheaters in chess games, generating music recommendations that users like, detecting users with high chances of bad credit, to classifying fireflies (which are increasingly rare) from video footage.
Wynke@iveyline @paninid Although I think that AI is not usually very useful and often rather destructive (both in 'being wrong' and in environmental impact), I do not quite agree with this reasoning. There are a lot of things that humans could, and used to, do ourselves, and that are made a lot easier with the help of tools that were also first seen as 'that's just laziness'.
Vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, automobiles, printing presses and more come to mind.
@iveyline @paninid Obviously I do not mean 'go ahead, let AI write your book for you'. But that is because AI has no actual creativity and no accountability and because of environmental and societal impact. Not because it is 'lazy' or because using tools is a bad thing. Because that would also apply to a great many things that are actually positive developments.
Mark Pauley