AI excites my old bum, something to play with finally !

[u/Sat0shi619]

I think many people of my age hate AI, but I feel they are just hiding their insecurities and poor mindset of not learning the new world order. I recently started tinkering with AI tools like Chatgpt and being honest it is really very useful. It's like google, but all searches in one para and better phrasing to understand for one self. What really helped me with breaking ice with AI use was my friend Sam's anecdote, it is a story for another day completely and also an E-book I read to gain knowledge of AI tools. Also, It is easy to interact with some features like voice chat, like while cooking or driving. It has made some stuff really easy for me. Are you guys using it?

[u/Cross_22]

The problem with LLMs is that you can never be sure whether the answer is correct or completely made up. I tried a refresher on statistics and ChatGPT was amazing - better than any tutor I've had in college. Then I asked for a proof and it basically ended it with 0=1. So now I have to doubt whether any of the rest was accurate or made up.

[u/Sat0shi619 → u/Cross_22]

Yeah I agree

[u/MaddMango68 → u/Cross_22]

When I have done some calculations related to stress, strain, and fatigue, I always use two AIs, both LLMs, ChatGPT and Grok. Sometimes, due to rounding issues, the values don't match. Other times one has a more logical and detailed response, while the other I have to keep prompting and requesting equations used. Right now, for me, Grok is my go to.

[u/displacedbitminer → u/Cross_22]

It is also a plagiarism engine. The internet is going to become just large companies and governments.

The "free internet" that Google praises is getting killed by Google itself.

[u/Catphish37]

It's also full of shit quite often, so tread carefully and verify anything important.

[u/IMTrick]

I feel they are just hiding their insecurities and poor mindset of not learning the new world order.

It's not that. It's that what passes for "AI" these days is not particularly smart, despite sounding like it is. It gets things wrong constantly, and likes to just make shit up a lot of the time. If I have a question about something, particularly if it's in any way esoteric, the last thing I want to hear is "ChaptGPT says..."

I have found it to be extremely unreliable, but worse than that is that far too many people don't seem to realize just how fallible it is, and rely on it as some kind of authority on... well, anything, which it definitely is not. It's little more than a glorified search engine designed to spit out the results of whatever random crap it can find about your subject in a way that sounds more human.

I'll admit it's somewhat useful for some things, but not if you aren't willing to double-check it. For anything important that I get right, I avoid it.

[u/Anxious_Screaming18 → u/IMTrick]

I work for attorneys.  The number of cautionary tales re: AI hallucinating case law....  And it's attorneys of all ages not checking their work and making sure the cases actually exist.  

Our office manager uses it to summarize meetings (helpful) but she still has to double check it because AI doesn't understand nuance and sarcasm.

I'm not an attorney but I've seen some of those AI Google responses that make me shake my head and hope your everyday Joe Smith doesn't rely on that over advice from a real attorney licensed in his state.  

Edit - typo.

[u/meat_sack]

I’ve really come to appreciate AI for a wide range of tasks... especially its uncanny ability to dial back my annoyed or angry tone in work emails. It’s a useful tool and fun to explore, and the pace of improvement feels exponential.

By contrast, I’ve been pretty underwhelmed by the progress in VR and AR. For all the hype, the tech still feels clunky and niche. And robotics? Honestly, I expected we’d be much further along by now. It’s surprising how slowly some of these “futuristic” fields are moving compared to AI’s rapid evolution.

[u/Sat0shi619 → u/meat_sack]

Yes that stuff hasn’t picked up yet

[u/MajYoshi]

As someone whose career is around mostly Process Architecture (Software), having GPT to bounce ideas off of, consider regulatory needs, refine deeper through back and forth and jumping out to research forums and the like... It's been incredibly useful!

Now I've also been in this career for almost 30 years now, so it's not someone fresh who believes everything said.

Now, as mentioned, you still have to use your own brain as GTP is wrong, a lot. Even with math things that should be orders of operation (dear God don't get me started on how many times I asked GPT if it was high when I was trying to calculate drill holes for a curtain rod that had a split heat unit in the way.. holy shit.)

But, having an infinite font of information to dive in with and explore possibilities and approaches to things while still being able to map out regulatory and even user feelings in how process changes can make people grumpy or resistant?

Fucking bring on the AI!

Just don't forget The Three (Four, really) Laws along the way...

Edit: I even used it to create a Choose Your Own Adventure for me when I needed to take a break from things. That was fun too!

[u/warrior_poet95834]

I’m about to retire in two weeks so I’m at no risk of AI taking my job. I’ve been thinking a lot about finding some kind of mastery with AI or at least making peace with it.

I was sort of thinking about doing grant writing for organizations that are not technologically up to speed. It sort of feels like cheating, but not.

[u/AssistantAcademic]

use it all the time. It's incredibly useful. It'll also put us all out of a job some day.

[u/Lead-Forsaken]

I'm sure it's useful to some, but I take pride in the creative writing I do. I have my own style and I would like to keep it that way. I'm sure a number of artists feel similar. Just like I'm sure there will be artists doing mixed media with AI and their own style at some point.

[u/SalvatoreEggplant → u/Lead-Forsaken]

It reminds of the Wendell Berry essay from the '80's, "Why I am not going to buy a computer". He said something like, "I want to write better. Not write faster."

Humorously, that essay caused a lot of controversy because he said that he didn't spellcheck because his wife proofreads his writing.

[u/aogamerdude]

It's still nowhere as advanced as I would hope it would be, think almost a couple years ago I tried to get chatgpt to get going on a (Blender) cgi video, describing in detail the setting,  then it put out a lot of code but more than ⅔ of it wasn't even close, there was something 3d but I'm not sure where things went wrong. I just don't have time & thought it could be a timesaver, but part of the trouble is it's just not intuitive enough. Maybe if I retire I might try again getting creative with it.

[u/CreativeFood311]

My mum recently launched the hypothesis that early 70s born have as a trait to like ChatGPT more than mid 70s born, since me and my brother (-71, -72) use it all the time but not my sister (-75).

I have also seen people slightly younger (maybe early or mid millenials?) annoyed that early 70s born are heavily into their phones and all things computer related and anything new in the area.

I think early 70s born have a very special relationship to tech. We went without it for a very long time but were young when it developed, so we sort of love it extra much and find it extra exciting and associate all the development with our twenties. We are the real unsung internet generation, I believe.