I realise this is a tricky topic and I hope it’s ok to ask this question. I genuinely want to hear how AI has changed people lives for the better. If you really hate AI I get it, but this isn’t a question for you then. Thank you and it’s all love.
(Edit: Thank you to all the positive commenters and for sticking with me through the inevitable negativity. Lots of really interesting comments in here 😁 We mustn’t let ourselves be intimidated by those who would try to forbid us from having these conversations. Thanks again)
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I assume you’re talking about LLMs rather than AI broadly.
- It’s willing to discuss any niche interest I want to that nobody else in my life cares about.
- It has endless patience to explain things to me multiple times when I don’t understand something.
- It never ever intentionally insults or ridicules me.
- I’ve lost count of how many times it has solved a genuine issue in my life or prevented me from doing something wrong.
- It’s the sole reason I was able to set up Linux and keep using it on a daily basis.
Also, this thread is going to get downvoted into oblivion and will get completely mobbed by all the haters you prompted to do so by mentioning “loving AI” in the title. These people just can’t help themselves.
Yes! I completely agree with you. It’s been life changing for me. I have ADHD and to have an AI that has learnt how I need to be presented with information is just amazing. First time in my life I’ve ever experienced anything like that. No question is dumb and if I lose interest in something there are never negative consequences from it. I’m pretty actively in half a dozen conversations with ChatGPT right now that I can go back to and continue anytime. Not just ChatGPT though. I had a brief and really interesting conversation this morning with Google’s AI about why the moon always faces the same way to us. It was fascinating 😁
It made me realise my new coworker is an moron and a fraud in just weeks, not months or years. If he had simply shut his mouth, I would never has suspected him. But thanks to him feeding several internal things into AI, and then bragging about it to my boss, I now know who I won’t be sharing all but the most required info with.
It also amuses me when it still fails at some basic tasks. Having several AI models fail in different ways is quite interesting, so there is some entertainment value. Did you know that Deepseek and Qwen do not know the lyrics to “Gansta’s paradise”, while Claude knows them if you poke it a bit, but runs into its profanity filter?
It’s helped me further understand that the average person is a moron.
It’s gives me the confidence to tackle projects I’ve previously ruled out knowing that there may be some particular part of it that’s completely out of my skillset, but now I can get AI to walk me through that bit.
I love that it’s losing billionaires a ton of money.
I like the AI in Super Mario Bros when the Koopa Troopas turn around after walking near a ledge.
It’s a really good search engine for research topics. And it can do basic coding tasks via a short plain-text description, which can save time. In prototypic fields like science it’s a really good fit, because software does not need to be high quality, often it doesn’t even need to be super fast.
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I love your comment and I don’t worry about the downvoters. Clearly their downvotes have had no effect on visibility because a decent amount of people have managed to comment positively. I knew going into this my “Attitude” score would take a hit but it’s totally worth it and the story of your Dad was inspiring 😁
Nothing. (Best I can do)
I like how AI route finding algorithms can help me navigate new areas
If routing algorithms are now considered to be AI the term has lost all meaning.
I swear to god Dijkstra just appeared behind me as a Jedi style ghost and slapped his forehead so hard he phase shifted into oblivion again.
In computer science AI refers to a system that’s capable of performing any cognitive task typically done by humans.
The term isn’t losing its meaning. Its always been a broad term. Most people just think it means more than it actually does.
Thank you for explaining my degree to me.
How am I supposed to know what field you have a degree in? Was I being rude towards you? I’m unsure what warrants this sarcastic courtesy.
The rhetorical mistake you made was an appeal to authority - “in computer science” - in your reply. This only makes sense if you presumed I don’t know the details behind my statement, ie I have not studied it.
Any workable definition of AI must be more complex than a single, complete, procedure like path finding. If it isn’t, then any algorithm that is NP complete counts as AI.
For example, a script that solves sudoku is not AI.
AI is a technical term with roots in computer science. That’s not an appeal to authority - it’s a factual statement.
When a layperson hears “AI” they often think of AGI - something like HAL 9000. Then they look at ChatGPT, conclude the LLM isn’t (generally) intelligent, and decide it therefore isn’t AI. My point is that the term has a specific meaning and it’s not what most people think. I assumed you were one of those people. It doesn’t imply general intelligence. A very simple system can still be artificially intelligent in the classical definition of the term. A sudoku solver, a chess engine, and a navigator would all count.
Nowadays the meaning has shifted a little and usually refers to a model that has learned from a bunch of data. By that definition none of the earlier examples qualify anymore except for LLMs.
AI is a technical term with roots in computer science. That’s not an appeal to authority - it’s a factual statement.
Then use a definition which would hold water academically.
Switching between proper definitions and layman’s usage is basically the entire point of my original comment.
But anyway, have a lovely evening.
You’re kinda right. It reminds me of:
The AI effect is a phenomenon in which advances in artificial intelligence lead to a redefinition of what is considered intelligence, such that capabilities achieved by AI systems are no longer regarded as examples of “real” intelligence.
Something being used in a thing does not make it that thing.
An engine contains pistons. A piston is not an engine.
He always calls me Betty and acts like my long-lost pal.
it is strong with any translation tasks.
also gives me a somewhat okay summary before i decide to read something or skip it.
It gives more detailed and specific answers to searches.
The only thing I saw that made the pervert glasses seem ok, was for blind people…
We also have apps that connected blind people with volunteers as needed. My ex would occasionally receive what were essentially video calls to help someone figure out if something was expired or other lil tasks like that.
But yeah, I wouldn’t fault someone that couldn’t see for using real time audio descriptions. Third party hallucinations would be wild tho.
I generally hate AI, but the things I hate about it are that it’s being controlled by greedy capitalists and forced upon the world as a product, that it’s driving the worst component shortage in electronics history, and that it’s being used to replace human labor. I’ve found genuine uses for it though, and if it weren’t for the capitalists trying to use it to destroy the world, I’d have a mich higher opinion of it. I used it at work to help write code based on a 4000+ page datasheet, it’s pretty good at churning through a lot of documentation to find the relevant parts. It is basically an advanced search engine after all. I also had some good success with it lately (specifically through Google’s AI mode) reverse engineering the RGB chip in some RAM. I had reverse engineered it years ago bit there were still some things I didn’t understand. Uploaded a firmware dump to Google AI and it was able to find some missing details by analyzing or decompiling the binary. I also used it to recover corrupted SPD on some RAM sticks, gave it a dump of the corrupted data and it determined what bytes needed fixing. I think that in the right hands and used as an actual assistant, it can be helpful, but too many people are trying to cede all control to it in the name of profit and ruining everything. I hope that local AI and smaller, more focused models become more common and that the environmental and economicl disaster that is hyperscalers starts to die off.
