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?
LLMs/AI cannot feel. They don’t have emotion. They’re good at talking with you when nobody else does, because everyone is so damn politically and socially wired anymore to have a cohesive discussion with. But not great at exactly problem solving things an AI can’t relate to.
Here’s what a lot of people forget about AI. For it to understand anything at all, you have to really dump years of effort into it. That means, you have to talk about it from the day you were born to all the way in the present. So you had better have been one of those diary writers so you can recall events you’d like to talk to the AI about so it can understand.
But is it really worth the hassle and trouble to? Just so you’d get generic, glad-hand holding, preemptive response that are automatically generated? Especially when said AI has never gone through an ounce that you, a human, has gone through?
Absolutely not.
The AI is a tool. LLMs are a tool. They’re to help you identify things you don’t know, like say you take a picture of a room and point out things you want to know about that you didn’t. So that way you’re spared from having to deal with a human being who’ll stand there and be like “UHHHH…UHHHHH” before inevitably telling you “I DON’T KNOW, GO LOOK IT UP!”. In by which sense, people should stop being so bitchy towards AI in this scenario when people decide to use it for that very purpose! Helps you from dealing with those kinds of interactions, because I always love nothing more than my time having spent going around forums online and talking to people in person about things, only for them to either be like “I HAVE THAT TOO!” or “GEE, I DON’T KNOW!”.
I use ChatGPT for general purpose. I use Grok for ERP, lol.