What is AI good for? (derogatory)
What is AI good for? (derogatory)
We all know that AI systems use a lot of energy and resources. But what for? What are these systems good at, exactly? To answer that, let's a look at how AI is being used today. And as a bonus, we'll also take a look at why Kevin O'Leary likes AI.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53487257
Realtime closed captions.
Arguable... it's OKish at best, definitely nowhere near as good as professional... then IMHO it's like spotting a spelling mistake in an official document, you instantly look for MORE mistakes then it become distracting. There is something powerful about trust that once it's broken, it's hard to get back. Once a spelling or here transcription mistake happens, then we brace for more (rationally so) and it becomes a very taxing endeavor.
So... sure STT progressed quite a bit but it's STILL not good enough in a lot of cases.
Case in point, IMHO when there is a choice, most people (everybody?) would rather have human made captions than AI ones.
Yeah, the song I 2 I, from a goofy movie will take AI a while to get right.
There are plenty of uses for machine learning, that are genuinely helpful and useful, but the way people shove generative AI, and surveillance down everyone’s throat needs to stop
I find it's great for doing all the piddly day-to-day crap that I don't want to put much brain power into, like writing cover letters and emailing the bank or whatever.
I think as long as it's used sparingly it can free you up to do stuff you'd rather be doing, but IMO where people go wrong is when they use it to do the stuff they want to be doing as well.
Absolutely nothing SAY IT AGAIN NOW
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Pretty good for spam and scam.
Who's Al?
What is AI good for - Images that are suitable for screen backgrounds, Creative text work - I had chatgpt work with me on a procedure to un-mothball a starship, it suggested details I did not think of. I had chatgpt also read and suggest re-wording and correction on text for documentation. I fed it a chapter at a time and proofread the output carefully to mitigate hallucination.
Here is the text above after a chatgpt re-write:
AI excels at creating stunning screen backgrounds and tackling creative text work. For example, I worked with ChatGPT to craft a procedure for un-mothballing a starship, and it offered valuable details I hadn’t considered. It’s also a fantastic tool for refining documentation—I had it review and reword chapters, carefully proofreading to ensure accuracy. The results were efficient, insightful, and elevated the final product.
reads like every corporate admemo. why sacrifice your voice? i preferred the original.
I preferred the first version.
Yeah out of many changes that distorted or outright altered meaning, one of the worst bits was that the second version eliminated the crucial first few words - which acknowledged the original post and therefore set a particular tone.
Communication is way more complex than statistical relationships between words, and I sincerely doubt that any of these systems will ever be able to fully mimic that complexity
Tell me more. Why?
However, in the art arena AI is frustrating when you need a very specific image and not just a 'a tree a dog a bird and a farmhouse' AI art is getting better with text in the image but still makes some mistakes there. AI does poorly when you try to use it as a search engine : "What movie had a ball shaped robot" might bring back any answer. Warning though - AI is getting better at hands and spurious limbs.