What are your thoughts on AI?
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Actual piracy doesn't bother me, but I'm supposed to care that a robot learned English by reading library books? Learning is what libraries are for. Yeah, the draw-anything robot can only draw The Simpsons because it's seen The Simpsons. How else was it supposed to happen?
Training is transformative use. You can't spend a zillion compute-hours guessing the next word of a story, in such a way that it can fake Tolkien retelling Shrek as a rap battle, and claim that's the same as LordOfTheRings.txt on an FTP server. What the network is and does will not substitute the original work. Not unless the Silmarillion had more swamp ogres than I've heard.
Image stuff will become a brush that does whatever you tell it. Type the word "inks" and drag it over your sketch, and it'll smooth out your lines. Type the word "photorealistic" and it'll turn your blocky shading into unreasonably good lighting. None of this prevents human art. The more you put in, the more you get out. Stable Diffusion is a denoiser, where the concept of noise can be defined as bad anatomy.
Video stuff might end Hollywood, as soon as editors figure out they've inherited the Earth. The loosest animatics can become finished shots without opening Blender or picking up a camera. A static image of what a character looks like should be enough to say, this stick figure is that guy. Or this actor is that cartoon character. Or this cardboard cutout is that approaching spaceship. The parts that don't look like that are noise, and get removed. We're rapidly going to learn how blobby and blurry an input can be, for the machine to export a shot from your head, just the way you imagine it. And where it's not exactly what you intended - neither is any shot ever filmed. A film only exists in the edit. So anyone who can string together some already-spooky output, based on the stories they'd like to tell, is going to be a studio unto themselves.
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Writing a cover letter is a good exercise in self reflection
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I'm a layman in terms if AI but I think it can be a useful tool, if used in proper context. I use it when I struggle to find something by regular internet search. The fact you can search in a conversational style and specify as you go on what you need is great.
I feel it is pushed into contexts where it has no place and where it's usefulness is limited or counterproductive.
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Death. Kill 'em all. Butlerian jihad now. Anybody trying to give machines even the illusion of thought is a traitor to humanity. I know this might sound hyperbolic; it's not. I am not joking rn. I mean it.
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You sound like spiritualist empires in Stellaris
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It's bullshit. It's inauthentic. It can be useful for chewing through data, but even then the output can't be trusted. The only people I've met who are absolutely thrilled by it are my bosses, who are two of the most frustrating, stupid, pig-headed, petty people I've ever met. I wish it would go away.
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Whatever that means, it sounds based (I've been meaning to play Stellaris for ages but haven't really gotten around to it since the one game I played back in like 2018 when I bought it)
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I kinda wish we had one on lemmy that summarized articles since we dont have the userbase of reddit (theres always some dude summarizing the facts without the fluff in the comments) AI is good at summaries.
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I straight up dont like reading most of these articles, its often written in a way that makes you stay on the page longer
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True, I just assumed that reflection was required in order to give the AI the prompt, and the AI was mainly used to format it correctly. I might be talking out of my ass here since I haven't used it extensively.
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I think it's fine if used in moderation. I use mine for doing the mindless day-to-day stuff like writing cover letters or business-type emails. I don't use it for anything creative though, just to free myself up to do that stuff.
I also suck at coding so I use it to write little scripts and stuff. Or at least to do the framework and then I finish them off.
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Generative ai is just an advanced chat bot, a toy that uses too much power to be efficient.
My personal experience is that any output has to be double checked and edited. It would be better to just do whatever I asked it to do from the beginning. When it can fact check itself and cite sources, then it might become useful.
An ai that can comb through vast amounts of data and give an output of specific data relevant to the question presented than a generative ai might be useful. But it can’t analyze data very well at the current moment. It hallucinates too much.
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As of now its overblown. Still a useful tool tho. Ive been using deepseek to help with resume formatting. Just dont let them do any actual writing for you or theyll make shit up. But for formatting theyre great. Feed it what you wrote, and ask to to clean it up without changing the text. Re read it to make sure it didnt change stuff anyway. Its also great at things like troubleshooting issues. Way better then just googling it. You can still run into hallucinations tho so be careful. I also reccomend avoiding any western AI and only use chinese AI. Its better and safer.
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“AI” is humanity’s greatest invention…? wtf lol
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Using AI like Deepseek is a lot easier than shifting through 50 search results, if the question is for a relatively new technology though then it usually doesn't work
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I love it for what I use it for which is research, speeding up scripting and code writing, resume building, paraphrashing stupidly long news articles, teaching me Spanish and Japanese, bypassing the bullshit that are what passes as search engines these days, and talking my anxiety down. They cut through the noise and boost my productivity.
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AI is the perfect tool to generate propaganda and fake-news on a massive scale. Humans may live in bubbles divorced from reality because of it.
It also is the perfect technology for censorship, sentiment analysis/monitoring and thought-control automation. -
Capitalism will ruin any good opportunities with said technology. Much like every technology that preceeded it.
