I wish it would at least respond with, “I don’t know how to figure this out” rather than wasting my time having to read the convoluted BS it comes up with when answering a question.
It can't answer that question like that because, like I said it's a syntax generator. It's not intelligent, it can't understand context, it is only capable of generating content.
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Who is in charge of this product and why haven't they been fired yet?
It can't answer that question like that because, like I said it's a syntax generator. It's not intelligent, it can't understand context, it is only capable of generating content.
As a non developer who is otherwise reasonably intelligent, I had a hard time understanding the difference until someone said "it's job is simply to provide an answer that "fits" the question. Not to find the right answer, but the answer that best matches the inputs.
But see... that's not very useful. Oh sure, useful to you. But it's just another contact manager. It has zero value. Like, could you sell it? Like, is someone going to pay $200/mth to create essentially one-off apps?
I think we are potentially within reach of a time when the above bolded part is more important than people realize. I know we're wired to say "but can I sell it?", but there's an interesting shift when the attention turns to creating one-off software solutions for your very strange unique-to-you problems.
I have a buddy that was starting up a small business, and when it came time to pick a CRM to manage his future clients, he just sorta made one. It's not a world-beater, and it's easily dwarfed by options readily available, but he didn't need anything robust. He needed to collect names, contact info, and notes.
This was not completely necessary (more of a test to see if he could), but it was such an easy win, he started creating all sorts of one-off solutions for weird problems he was running into.
I don't think anybody is replacing dropbox anytime soon with some weird hacky vibe-coded thing, but for those "why can't we just get a dashboard that shows me <thing>" problems, it's getting frightfully straightforward.
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I think we are potentially within reach of a time when the above bolded part is more important than people realize. I know we're wired to say "but can I sell it?", but there's an interesting shift when the attention turns to creating one-off software solutions for your very strange unique-to-you problems.
I have a buddy that was starting up a small business, and when it came time to pick a CRM to manage his future clients, he just sorta made one. It's not a world-beater, and it's easily dwarfed by options readily available, but he didn't need anything robust. He needed to collect names, contact info, and notes.
This was not completely necessary (more of a test to see if he could), but it was such an easy win, he started creating all sorts of one-off solutions for weird problems he was running into.
I don't think anybody is replacing dropbox anytime soon with some weird hacky vibe-coded thing, but for those "why can't we just get a dashboard that shows me <thing>" problems, it's getting frightfully straightforward.
I'm stuck in the confines of my companies systems but AI has helped me make some really helpful excel macros that save me a ton of time. I can't "make money" off of them but they sure make me look like I'm pedal to the metal at work lol.
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I'm stuck in the confines of my companies systems but AI has helped me make some really helpful excel macros that save me a ton of time. I can't "make money" off of them but they sure make me look like I'm pedal to the metal at work lol.
Now you can get creative. Hold your productivity at no more than 10% above your cohorts and use your free time to benefit yourself.
And for another $1.00 I will give financial advice.
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The problem with training LLM through a rewards systems that gets rated by human behavior and quirks. It also apparently is why the new GPT was glazing people like crazy.
Suno updated to version 4.5. The voice quality is something else, and I've officially crossed the threshold and have listened to more AI music this week than human-made. Certainly not for everyone and I know it makes a lot of people angry, but for me, it's the closest thing I've seen to actual magic.
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Sooo many people will go from easily manipulated to trivially manipulated with AIs, and only bad people will be using it to it's full power.
It is a fascinating problem... earlier on, it was found that conspiracy theorists were more easily persuaded towards truth via AI than humans making the same points. Of course, there's no reason it can't go the other way too. It's great when the goal is to break your belief in a flat earth, but more concerning when it's to sell you running shoes.
It's been disarmingly good at small-to-medium therapy tasks, but then my therapy needs are relatively low and I'm a reasonably nice person. When narcissists use it, I have to imagine things can go south quite fast.
It is a fascinating problem... earlier on, it was found that conspiracy theorists were more easily persuaded towards truth via AI than humans making the same points. Of course, there's no reason it can't go the other way too. It's great when the goal is to break your belief in a flat earth, but more concerning when it's to sell you running shoes.
It's been disarmingly good at small-to-medium therapy tasks, but then my therapy needs are relatively low and I'm a reasonably nice person. When narcissists use it, I have to imagine things can go south quite fast.
AIs have a lot of potential for good, but people using them in reckless, selfish or evil ways will use them in massively biggee volumes.
Democracies are already cracking under the pressure of bots and trolls, this will supercharge that process, and it's probably already too late to stop it, because the people who own the AIs also control the filters and algorithms that control peoples worldviews and opinions.
It is a fascinating problem... earlier on, it was found that conspiracy theorists were more easily persuaded towards truth via AI than humans making the same points. Of course, there's no reason it can't go the other way too. It's great when the goal is to break your belief in a flat earth, but more concerning when it's to sell you running shoes.
It's been disarmingly good at small-to-medium therapy tasks, but then my therapy needs are relatively low and I'm a reasonably nice person. When narcissists use it, I have to imagine things can go south quite fast.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of South Memphis that already leads the state in emergency department visits for asthma.
None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules.
The company has no Clean Air Act permits.
The conspiracy theorists are just an interesting example because they're notoriously tough nuts to crack. If an LLM can persuade them, the rest of us don't stand a chance.
But see... that's not very useful. Oh sure, useful to you. But it's just another contact manager. It has zero value. Like, could you sell it? Like, is someone going to pay $200/mth to create essentially one-off apps?
You pretty much got the answer I was going to give you from everyone else, but here's mine: If it makes my work or life easier somehow, then that's worth it to me.
No, I likely won't be selling "ChartBot" to Bloomberg or Morgan Stanley and retiring on a beach in my 40s, but it takes a manual task that I want to accomplish -- a task that would take a human a good amount of time and effort -- and completes it in under a minute. And the work it took to make it a reality took a fraction of the time it would have taken to write and debug manually, too. For most people, the value of AI is going to be taking menial or labour intensive tasks off their plate to do more useful / enjoyable things.
