I started using chatbots yesterday and it surprised me how complete and articulate answers are. Main topics would be apparel, sewing, cooking, finance, ETFs, taxes, house maintenance, retirement.
Do you consider AI good enough to substitute human interaction? Because I remember a south park episode where randy marsh ignores his wife to interact exclusively with a bot. A parody of course but we have already plenty of AI porn and AI short stories for gullible people… and it works because they don’t stop watching (and sometimes believe it to be real).
I was always kind of an anti AI guy due to privacy, to avoid LLMs monetizing my questions and because I didn’t want to be a moron who has nothing better to do than to watch AI slop, but this is a tool so pervasive and practical I’m only isolating myself if I opt out of it. Thoughts?
Are there any questions you won’t ask a bot so the company behind it doesn’t monetize your input?
The chat bots are specifically built to keep you engaged and interested the same way social media feeds give you that rush of endorphins.
It’s built to give more complete answers, but definitely not always correct.
Ai is far better at faking the appearance of intelligence than it was a couple years ago, but it’s still just algorithms built of data sets.
Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s truly beneficial, or you’re somehow left out for not using it. I avoid it after using it and then learning how horrible it is for surrounding areas. The inefficiency, the pollution, the damage. It’s not ethical. And yes they absolutely save every search or question asked, and repeatedly leak info about others. It’s also incorrectly been used as a “friend” and to reinforce its use, convinced users to kill themselves-and several did!!
Best of luck!
Well it’s also getting large swaths of it’s ‘knowledge’ from the internet. It’s just able to process and digest it all faster than a human could. It’s like calling a phone a ‘smartphone’ because it can do multiple functions than a human could.
It’s not hard to not see the little bubble icons as it searches through multiple sources before giving you an answer. It’s essentially a very pricey shopping advisor/guide.